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NVIDIA, Oracle Cloud, and Hammerspace demonstrate massively optimized AI storage at Oracle AI World this week. - Up to 7x improvement in latency vs. traditional cloud file storage - Up to 6x improvement in storage performance vs. traditional cloud file storage - Checkpointing at extreme speeds, crushing idle time. - Throughput so fast it keeps GPUs fed 24/7, not waiting on data. - Policy-driven flexibility to move cold data to lower-cost tiers without touching the hot path. Join Raj Sharma's talk in the NVIDIA booth to learn more!

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Universities face increasing pressure to store, protect, and access massive datasets—often with limited budgets and complex legacy systems. Cal Poly Humboldt partnered with Backblaze to modernize their storage strategy, reduce costs, and deliver scalable data protection for research and campus-wide operations. Their story highlights how IT leaders can streamline workflows and improve resilience with the right cloud partner. Read the full case study: #ITLeadership #CIO #DigitalTransformation #CloudStorage #DataManagement #HigherEdIT #InfrastructureStrategy

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Oracle and Bloom Energy Collaborate to Deliver Power to Data Centers at the Speed of AI SAN JOSE, Calif. –Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE), a global leader in power solutions, today announced that it will deploy its fuel cell technology at select Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) data centers in the U.S. To support the growing demand for OCI’s AI and cloud computing services, Bloom Energy will deliver highly reliable and cost-efficient onsite power for an entire data center within 90 days. “We continue to see strong global demand for OCI services across our entire data center portfolio including our large gigawatt AI data centers,” said Mahesh Thiagarajan, Executive Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Customers expect to run their AI workloads and new AI applications at peak performance. Bloom’s fuel cell technology will join OCI’s extensive energy portfolio, further supporting our cutting-edge AI infrastructure with reliable, clean power that can be quickly deployed and easily scaled.” “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure requires power solutions engineered to meet the performance and reliability demands of today’s most advanced AI and compute workloads,” said Aman Joshi, Chief Commercial Officer of Bloom Energy. “This significant collaboration provides Oracle with ultra-reliable, clean, and cost-efficient power that supports its growth strategy with the speed and certainty it needs.” Bloom’s systems also deliver clean power with virtually no air pollution and no water use, contributing to Oracle’s use of sustainable energy sources to power Oracle Cloud. Bloom Energy’s energy solutions power the world’s most critical digital infrastructure, following agreements with Equinix, American Electric Power (AEP), and Quanta Computing. To date, Bloom Energy has deployed over 400 MW to power data centers worldwide. About Bloom Energy Bloom Energy empowers enterprises to meet soaring energy demands and responsibly take charge of their power needs. The company’s fuel cell system provides ultra-resilient, highly scalable onsite electricity generation for Fortune 500 companies around the world, including data centers, semiconductor manufacturing, large utilities, and other commercial and industrial sectors. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Bloom Energy has deployed 1.5 GW of low-carbon power across more than 1,200 installations globally. For more information, visit www.BloomEnergy.com.

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At #NVIDIAGTC, ServiceNow and NVIDIA are taking our partnership to the next level—advancing a governed agentic workforce, expanding our Enterprise AI Factory and AI Control Tower integration, and establishing enterprise-ready benchmarks for voice and multimodal AI. https://lnkd.in/gNSQafSh

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If you missed enterprise cyber and AI storage leader Infinidat at Gartner IOCS last week, join us TOMORROW (Dec 18) as we discuss the critical trends in enterprise storage at the 7th Annual Insight Jam Conference in our keynote address: "Key Enterprise Storage Topics For Machine Age Market Architecture". Tune in at 8am PT/11am/4pm GMT/5pm CET to explore how 2026 will unfold for enterprise storage: • Cyber storage resilience and its critical importance to an overall corporate cyber security strategy • AI - both enterprise storage for AI applications and workloads and also the use of AI inside of storage systems for ease of management and to cut costs • The impact of enterprise storage on power budgets and power efficiency • How enterprise storage can dramatically reduce IT CAPEX, IT OPEX, and IT resource needs https://bit.ly/48T0osy Oren Yesharim David Beltrán Vera David Humes II David Sawyer David Muench Tim Dales Bill Basinas Fran Bruno David Lubrano Benjamin Lew Tom Manganaro Tom Dionne Daniel Potts Donato Ceccomancini Marco Meraviglia ☁ Andrea Sappia Andrea Fraietta Marcus Benham Juliet McMullen Anthony DeLisio Karine Haase Lynsy (Calvario) Marshall Rebecca Kraushaar Revital Aharon-Frimerman Kfir Kayakov Shira Ginsburg Solutions Review Tim King Maleeha Haider Jonathan Paula 📸Craig Hibbert Bob Stone Pete Byrne Paul S. Gaccione Paul Stewart George Deveau James Meyers Gene Kussmann JT Lewis Lee Bushnell

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Hawaiʻi Center of Excellence: Hawaiʻi AI Innovation Day On Friday, February 13, leaders from across Hawaiʻi gathered at Pearl at Kalauao in Aiea for an extended, in-person AI Innovation Day focused on practical modernization and AI adoption. Hosted by Ken Tyson of Kamehameha Schools and sponsored by Pacxa, the session brought together State of Hawaiʻi agencies, the City and County of Honolulu, and local Hawaiian business and community leaders for meaningful dialogue. The agenda covered: • The Future of Oracle AI • How Cloud Applications & AI drive organizational outcomes • Building roadmaps to prepare for modernization Grateful to collaborate with leaders committed to shaping a resilient, AI-enabled future for Hawaiʻi. #HawaiiAI #AIInnovation #PublicSectorTech #CloudModernization #GovTech #DigitalTransformation Adam Mote Wilhelmina Van Beers Gregory Rothmeyer Gilbert Traverse Erich Chen Erica Harrold Johnny Goetz Scott Esposito Brian Carr Rachelle Graham, MS, PHR, SHRM-CP Robert Lynton Graciela Arana Lauren Killens

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Oracle and AWS have expanded their collaboration to make the Oracle Database@AWS service generally available in the US. InfoWorld shares all the details. https://lnkd.in/gAehNskj

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IBM Storage validates LMCache for KVCache offloading on their Scale platform and show some pretty strong performance improvements. #LMCache #Tensormesh #KVCache #AIinference #AIperformance #IBM

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Machine-To-Machine Intelligence (M2MI) Corporation announces Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle’s prior Chief Security Officer (CSO) joins M2MI’s Executive Advisory Board Tiburon, CA Tuesday 18th November 2025 – Machine-To-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) announced that industry cyber security AI risk leader Mary Ann Davidson, previously Oracle Corporation’s Chief Security Officer, has joined the M2MI Executive Advisory Board to pioneer next generation Explainable AI governance risk management supervision. “AI can become a powerful force for good, but only if we can collectively have trust via verification of what AI is actually doing. The ability to deliver “Explainable AI” is therefore critical not only to ensure accuracy and accountability of AI-powered systems but to move ahead of the regulatory curve. Last but really first, the ability to embed “Explainable AI” as a foundational element of AI-enriched systems will accelerate adoption of AI and thereby move slow-to-market skeptics into highly successful believers,” says Mary Ann Davidson, M2MI Executive Advisory Board Member. M2MI builds on its prior innovative “automated M2M intelligence” with significant innovations enabling Explainable AI (XAI) Supervision services for Data Platforms. Supervision is underpinned by the governance trifecta of security, privacy and trust. These services demand significant explainable AI processing power to deliver high trust-integrity core services essential for the real-time processing. “M2MI has now achieved two decades of AI experience, commencing with AI and Ontologies, through to our NASA innovation for “automated M2MI Intelligence,” and with Mary Ann’s guidance, innovation and significant experience we embark on what is now considered the next chapter of AI wherein serious AI processing power provides new and deep understanding of risk management. From the post processing world of surveillance to present, real time processing benefits of Supervision,” said Geoffrey Barnard, Machine-To-Machine Intelligence (M2MI) Corporation’s CEO & CTO.

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