… The announcement comes as organizations continue to evaluate alternatives to traditional virtualization platforms and seek infrastructure that combines compute, storage, networking, and data protection in a unified architecture. …
… Dell also cited findings from an Omdia study comparing on-premises deployments with public cloud alternatives. …
… The updates span agentic AIOps, private cloud platforms, virtualization alternatives, and software for AI infrastructure management. …
… These areas continue to see demand as organizations modernize virtualized environments and evaluate alternatives to traditional virtualization platforms. …
… However, Synology’s historical advantage has been simplicity, vertical integration, and appliance economics, not feature breadth or ecosystem depth at the very high end. …
… That reality has sustained strong demand for purpose-built backup appliances even as cloud-based alternatives have expanded. …
… New ecosystem updates include support for VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, Microsoft Azure Local, and Dell PowerStore integration with Nutanix AHV. …
… Where v8 trails: per-chip HBM capacity 216 GB versus Rubin’s 288 GB HBM4 , sparsity NVIDIA has a 2:4 hardware path, Google does not , and ecosystem breadth CUDA, cuDNN, TensorRT-LLM, and the PyTorch-first serving stack land on NVIDIA first; native PyTorch on TPU is still preview . …