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Quantum Computing You Can Touch -- And It Fits in a Rack

Equal One's quantum computer fits in a standard rack, plugs into a wall outlet, and uses hot qubits cooled to 300 millikelvin with a closed-cycle helium system, making it look and operate like conventional data center equipment. The speaker argues that leveraging the existing semiconductor industry and standard supply chains can accelerate quantum adoption, with molecular simulation likely the first commercially relevant application, requiring around 400-500 logical qubits and expected within three to four years. He advises companies to start building internal quantum capabilities now, as waiting could put them behind competitors.

How Purdue Is Putting Deskside AI in Students' Hands | Preston Smith

Purdue University is integrating deskside AI systems like the Dell Pro Max GB10 into its curriculum and research to give students hands-on experience with AI. Preston Smith explains that the university provides these systems for capstone projects and integrates them into instructional clusters, allowing students to work on AI tasks without competing for limited GPU resources. He also notes that Purdue is instituting an AI competency requirement for all graduates, tailored to each academic discipline.

Modernize Your Data Center for AI, Resilience, and Growth

Dell argues that modernizing data centers requires a holistic strategy combining cloud-smart workload placement, AI-ready infrastructure, and cyber resilience. For example, current PowerEdge servers can consolidate up to 13 older generations onto one platform with 70% more performance, and PowerStore offers up to 3x performance and density. The Dell AI Factory and PowerProtect One aim to accelerate AI deployment and reduce recovery time, but the claims are vendor-specific and not independently verified.

Cyber resilience as a competitive differentiator

Dell's Jim Sugarman argues that cyber resilience is a competitive differentiator because downtime stops transactions and frequent outages damage reputation. He explains that resilience is the ability to bounce back and the confidence in that ability, and that Dell helps customers build this through services like business continuity and cyber recovery, emphasizing testing to identify gaps. He notes that mature customers move from traditional business continuity to disaster recovery and application recovery, and now to methodologies like failover and stay and application rotation, often driven by industry requirements and regulations.

Securing Agentic AI Starts with One Team

Securing agentic AI requires integrating security into the governance process from the start, rather than treating it as a separate silo, argues Ward Williams. He recommends embedding security into agentic guidelines and using a platform-first approach to reduce tool sprawl, which allows security professionals to focus on higher-value work. Ongoing monitoring and recertification of users and agents are essential to maintain security and ROI as AI evolves.