4 articles that week
Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
Drawing on Nokia Bell Labs' reliability model, Mitch Ashley and Scott Robohn show why configuration, automation, and disciplined operations - not just infrastructure - are the real levers behind five-nines data center availability.
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Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
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.
more → Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
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.
more → Techstrong.IT, Monday, February 2nd, 2026
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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