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Techstrong.IT, Monday, February 23rd, 2026

AI's Electricity Use Is Driving Tech Firms To Build Private Energy Networks

Vol 336 · Issue 1 · 2026-03-06

Across the United States, leading tech companies are advancing plans to construct data centers that operate independently of the traditional power grid. Rather than wait years for utilities to approve new grid connections, these firms are pairing server campuses with on-site power generation, often fueled by natural gas. The result is the early formation of a parallel energy network built to serve the demands of AI.

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AI's Electricity Use Is Driving Tech Firms To Build Private Energy Networks

Techstrong.IT, Monday, February 23rd, 2026

What Microsoft Learned Building An MCP Server

Vol 335 · Issue 4 · 2026-02-23

Despite their similarities, an MCP Server is not an API Gateway, Microsoft engineers advise. It can do so much more, so let it. Slapping a protocol wrapper over an internal API may be a tempting shortcut to quickly build a MCP server, but the end product may only flummox an agent by offering too many choices, which would lead to context confusion, and subpar results

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What Microsoft Learned Building An MCP Server

Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026

Xsight Labs Is Raising The Bar For AI-Era Networking

Vol 335 · Issue 3 · 2026-02-17

Modern AI factories aren't bottlenecked by GPUs anymore; they're bottlenecked by the networks feeding them. At AIIFD4, Xsight made a compelling case that fixed-function silicon can't keep up with AI-era requirements, and then backed it up with real deployments, shipping products, and verified performance numbers.

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Xsight Labs Is Raising The Bar For AI-Era Networking

Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026

What Solidigm Showed At AI Infrastructure Field Day

Vol 335 · Issue 3 · 2026-02-17

At AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 (AIIFD4), one message was unmistakable: the AI era is being shaped by data, and storage is finally taking center stage. Whether you work in data center operations or you're charting an AI strategy at the executive level, you already feel the pressure.

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What Solidigm Showed At AI Infrastructure Field Day

Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026

Western Digital Is Reengineering Hard Drives For AI Era

Vol 335 · Issue 1 · 2026-02-04

Western Digital is laying out an ambitious hard disk drive roadmap, signaling its belief that spinning media will remain a core part of AI infrastructure well into the next decade. At its Innovation Day 2026 event, Western Digital detailed a multi-year strategy built around HDD capacity increases, significant gains in performance, lower power consumption, and a software layer designed to simplify deployment at scale.

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Western Digital Is Reengineering Hard Drives For AI Era

Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Backblaze Data Shows AI Is Changing Network Traffic

Vol 335 · Issue 1 · 2026-02-03

Artificial intelligence is no longer just reshaping compute infrastructure, it is now fundamentally altering how data moves across networks. That's the central conclusion of Backblaze's Q4 2025 Network Stats report, which draws on real-world production traffic to reveal how AI workloads are driving new trends in network traffic.

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Backblaze Data Shows AI Is Changing Network Traffic

Techstrong.IT, Monday, February 2nd, 2026

Is SaaS Dead? The Stock Market Thinks So

Vol 335 · Issue 1 · 2026-02-02

A few months back, when Satya Nadella suggested that SaaS was dead, or at least dying, plenty of people dismissed it as provocation. Bold, maybe. Wrong, definitely. Except here we are. And the stock market, which has a habit of cutting through comfortable narratives, seems to be nodding along.

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Is SaaS Dead? The Stock Market Thinks So

Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, January 28th, 2026

Wi-Fi 7 Set For Fast Adoption, But AI-Driven Parts Shortages Loom

Vol 334 · Issue 4 · 2026-01-28

Wi-Fi 7 is set for fast adoption, with industry research firm Dell'Oro Group saying enterprise buying of Wi-Fi 7 gear has climbed sharply since early 2025. Dell'Oro characterizes current Wi-Fi 7 pricing as unusually low, providing an adoption boost that could compress refresh cycles for businesses relying on Wi-Fi 6 and 6E.

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Wi-Fi 7 Set For Fast Adoption, But AI-Driven Parts Shortages Loom

Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 23rd, 2026

Data Is Pulling The Cloud Forward

Vol 334 · Issue 3 · 2026-01-23

To understand 2026, let's start with what happened in 2025. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud didn't just grow; they grew at scale. Combined, they crossed well north of $300B in annual cloud revenue, still expanding around 20-30% year over year.

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Data Is Pulling The Cloud Forward

Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 9th, 2026

Multi-Cloud Strategies For Enhanced Business Agility

Vol 334 · Issue 1 · 2026-01-09

Adopting a multi-cloud approach is an imperative for organizations in today's fast-paced competitive environment to boost their business agility. A multi-cloud strategy is defined as one in which an organization depends on multiple cloud vendors or providers.

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Multi-Cloud Strategies For Enhanced Business Agility

Techstrong.IT, Thursday, January 8th, 2026

AI Runs On Speed, But Scales On Data - And Lots Of It

Vol 334 · Issue 1 · 2026-01-08

AI continues to reshape infrastructure priorities, driving conversations about how organizations can meet the compute and performance needs of these increasingly powerful applications. However, behind every breakthrough model lies a hidden and growing challenge - storing the massive volumes of unstructured data that AI needs, consumes and creates.

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AI Runs On Speed, But Scales On Data - And Lots Of It

Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026

AWS Boosts Prices On High-End GPU Capacity Block

Vol 334 · Issue 1 · 2026-01-07

Amazon Web Services has implemented a roughly 15% price increase on some of its most powerful GPU-based EC2 Capacity Block instances, a move that will ripple through enterprise machine learning budgets and may even cause concerns about the future direction of cloud pricing.

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AWS Boosts Prices On High-End GPU Capacity Block

Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026

Why Data Sanitization Should Happen At The Enterprise-Before Assets Leave The Building

Vol 334 · Issue 1 · 2026-01-06

Data protection is critical in business partnerships, particularly when handling IT asset disposition and decommissioning. Increasingly, technology partners, such as IT asset disposition (ITAD) companies, are reluctant to take ownership of previously deployed devices that may still contain sensitive data, fearing potential liability if a breach occurs.

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Why Data Sanitization Should Happen At The Enterprise-Before Assets Leave The Building

IT-Techstrong.IT, Monday, December 29th, 2025

Best of 2025: The Rise Of Neocloud And What It Means For Hyperscalers

Vol 333 · Issue 5 · 2025-12-29

History has a funny way of repeating itself. Empires always look invincible - until they don't. The British Navy once ruled the seas. IBM mainframes once ruled IT. And for the past decade, the big three hyperscalers - AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud - have looked just as untouchable. Their logos tower over earnings reports, their data centers span the globe, and their developer ecosystems swallow entire industries.

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Best of 2025: The Rise Of Neocloud And What It Means For Hyperscalers

Techstrong.IT, December 11,2025

Best Of 2025: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 Launches

Vol 333 · Issue 4 · 2025-12-23

Europe's top enterprise Linux distro is promising unmatched longevity and security with its newest release. SUSE has officially released SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Service Pack 7 (SLES 15 SP7), positioning it as a strategic 'safe harbor' for enterprise IT investments, with support extending until 2037.

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Best Of 2025: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 Launches

Techstrong.IT, Thursday, December 18th, 2025

Breaking Up Big Tech, Should We?

Vol 333 · Issue 3 · 2025-12-18

I don't often change my mind in public. Not because I'm stubborn (okay, maybe a little), but because when you've been around this industry long enough, you learn to be wary of shiny arguments that feel good in the moment and age poorly over time.

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Breaking Up Big Tech, Should We?

Techstrong.IT, December 12,2025

The Cisco Catalyst Powering Our Future

Vol 333 · Issue 2 · 2025-12-12

The Cisco Catalyst brand has been making its mark on the world of networking for many years. I can think back to when the first switches were sent out in road cases for trials. As the product itself has evolved, so has all the technologies around it. The demands are higher, the speeds are faster, and we can build an entire building with Power-over-Ethernet.

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The Cisco Catalyst Powering Our Future

Techstrong.IT, December 12,2025

Leveraging The Edge When AI Has To Be Real-Time, Reliable, And Low Latency

Vol 333 · Issue 2 · 2025-12-12

In AI's first great phase of lightning-quick adoption and development, the most common approach has been to use services based in the cloud. But many organizations have recognized the limitations of cloud-based AI: while ideal for rapid implementations and quick results, data management and security concerns have naturally led to investment in on-premises, data center-based AI as well.

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Leveraging The Edge When AI Has To Be Real-Time, Reliable, And Low Latency