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

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

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

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

Zettalane Systems cuts cloud storage costs 70% with hybrid ZFS architecture. Multi-cloud support across AWS, GCP, and Azure with two-minute deployment. The Cloud Storage Cost Problem Cloud file storage pricing creates real business constraints. A 100TB file system on AWS EFS costs $360,000 per year at $0.30 per GB monthly. Block storage costs less ($96,000 annually on EBS gp3 at $0.08/GB/month) but doesn't provide the shared file access that applications require. Beyond prici

With downtime costing $6.48M per hour and new DORA regulations enforcing resilience standards, enterprises are rethinking protection strategies. InfoScale's 1,700+ customers report 98% downtime reduction and 320,000 IT hours saved annually through real-time application resilience. At the 66th IT Press Tour, InfoScale presented a case for rethinking how enterprises protect their applications. The numbers suggest they're on to something important. The Downtime Problem Is Gettin