What Eight Infrastructure Companies Revealed About Enterprise IT in 2026
Eight infrastructure vendors at IT Press Tour #66 reveal how VMware exodus, AI workloads, and flash economics are reshaping enterprise IT strategy. The 66th IT Press Tour brought together eight companies with a common thread: they're all responding to the same infrastructure pressure points. After three and a half days of presentations in Palo Alto, a clear picture emerged of where enterprise technology is headed and why traditional approaches are breaking down. Three Market
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The Lustre Collective Brings Independent Expertise to High-Performance Storage Market
The Lustre Collective launches independent support for parallel filesystem serving exascale HPC and AI infrastructure across clouds and data centers. Presented at the 66th IT Press Tour, January 2026 Three veteran filesystem developers have launched The Lustre Collective, creating an independent support and development company for organizations running large-scale AI and high-performance computing workloads. The company addresses a specific market need. Lustre powers critical
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The Storage Problem Quietly Slowing AI Infrastructure: How Novodisq Is Rethinking the Economics
Novodisq is targeting the power and space constraints quietly slowing AI infrastructure. Here's how their storage economics could reshape spending. Covered at the 66th IT Press Tour—January 2026 Most of the AI infrastructure conversation focuses on GPUs. And for good reason—training large models is GPU-intensive and expensive. But there's a second constraint that doesn't get nearly enough attention: the storage and power underneath. Data center rack space in key regions is bo
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Scale Computing Delivers 70% Cost Reduction Through Edge Platform Consolidation
Scale Computing case studies show 70% cost reduction and 99%+ uptime through unified edge computing platform managing 100K+ sites globally. Scale Computing presented its unified edge computing strategy at the 66th IT Press Tour, showing how enterprises can consolidate infrastructure while reducing costs and improving reliability. The company manages 100,000+ sites globally through a single platform. The Business Case Traditional edge deployments require separate solutions for
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