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3 days ago

Business intelligence

The hyperscalers are pricing themselves out of AI workloads

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Business intelligence

Hyperscaler datacentres set to dominate by 2031 | Computer Weekly

Agriculture

Cloud computing

DevOps

Enterprises demand cloud value

DevOps

Edge clouds and local data centers reshape IT

16 hours ago

When cloud giants neglect resilience

Cloud outages highlight reliability issues as providers prioritize cost-cutting over service stability, raising questions about acceptable levels of unreliability.

3 days ago

The hyperscalers are pricing themselves out of AI workloads

AI is challenging traditional cloud pricing models, as buyers seek exceptional value beyond brand recognition and familiar pricing strategies.

fromSitePoint Forums | Web Development & Design Community

Hyperscaler datacentres set to dominate by 2031 | Computer Weekly

Hyperscalers are projected to dominate global datacentre capacity, reaching 67% by 2031, driven by AI growth.

Agriculture

Cloud computing

Enterprises demand cloud value

Businesses are shifting from cost-cutting to establishing centers of excellence and finops to enhance ROI in cloud investments.

Edge clouds and local data centers reshape IT

Cloud computing is evolving towards a selectively distributed model to address latency, sovereignty, and resilience in smart cities and AI applications.

Scale sets edge platform's software ever more free from hardware constraints

Scale Computing is reducing hardware requirements for its software, allowing more flexibility for partners and customers in choosing hardware platforms.

Scala

New Scale Computing gets new Velocity Partner Program

Scale Computing revamps its partner program to address market changes and strengthen relationships with partners amid industry challenges.

Scale sets edge platform's software ever more free from hardware constraints

Scale Computing is reducing hardware requirements for its software, allowing more flexibility for partners and customers in choosing hardware platforms.

Scala

New Scale Computing gets new Velocity Partner Program

Scale Computing revamps its partner program to address market changes and strengthen relationships with partners amid industry challenges.

more#scale-computing

11 hours ago

Users complain of UK Azure capacity problems

Azure UK is full. Like full full. There's no additional quota available in any UK region, meaning no new VMs or AKS clusters can be created.

Tech industry

The best and worst states for AI data centers

Texas is attracting data center investments with tax incentives, while Maine is implementing a moratorium to evaluate the impact of data centers.

Data science

fromwww.businessinsider.com

21 hours ago

Eaton: AI data centers need aerospace-grade engineering

AI demands require a complete overhaul of data center infrastructure, moving from traditional cooling methods to advanced systems-level designs.

SF politics

Data center executives fret over the industry's increasingly toxic public image

The data center industry faces backlash over environmental and economic concerns, threatening major projects and requiring better public relations efforts.

Environment

fromAxios

16 hours ago

The best and worst states for AI data centers

Texas is attracting data center investments with tax incentives, while Maine is implementing a moratorium to evaluate the impact of data centers.

Data science

fromwww.businessinsider.com

21 hours ago

Eaton: AI data centers need aerospace-grade engineering

AI demands require a complete overhaul of data center infrastructure, moving from traditional cooling methods to advanced systems-level designs.

SF politics

Data center executives fret over the industry's increasingly toxic public image

The data center industry faces backlash over environmental and economic concerns, threatening major projects and requiring better public relations efforts.

Speed at Scale: Optimizing the Largest CX Platform Out There

Optimizing performance in customer experience platforms involves addressing challenges rather than focusing solely on the latest technologies.

11 hours ago

Broadcom brings secure AI agent environment to VMware Tanzu

Broadcom's VMware Tanzu Platform Agent Foundations provides a secure environment for autonomous AI applications with zero-trust networking and automated management.

12 hours ago

v | Fortune

Artificial intelligence threatens the traditional SaaS business model, leading to significant market vulnerabilities and increased competition.

Remote teams

fromComputerworld

18 hours ago

AI is finally delivering productivity - for remote employees

The key to productivity with AI lies in the freedom to use it effectively, not just the technology itself.

fromTNW | Eu

15 hours ago

EU awards its 180 million sovereign cloud contract

The European Commission awarded a €180 million sovereign cloud contract to four provider groups, emphasizing diversification and resilience in cloud services.

#ai-adoption

fromFast Company

From legacy processes to AI-native work

Integrating AI into organizations requires a new orchestration model that balances technology with human roles and behaviors.

fromNew Relic

Business intelligence

The Agentic Shift: Key Takeaways from IDC Directions 2026

fromFast Company

From legacy processes to AI-native work

Integrating AI into organizations requires a new orchestration model that balances technology with human roles and behaviors.

fromNew Relic

The Agentic Shift: Key Takeaways from IDC Directions 2026

The focus has shifted from AI experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption, emphasizing the importance of agentic observability in the evolving agent economy.

The Sectors Quietly Leading UK's Booming Digital Economy

The UK digital economy reached a $1.2 trillion valuation in 2025, driven by fintech and digital entertainment growth.

Marketing tech

8 hours ago

From hours to minutes: How Agentic AI gave marketers time back for what matters | Amazon Web Services

AWS Marketing's TAA team developed an AI solution that drastically reduces webpage assembly time, enhancing efficiency and content quality for marketing teams.

Tap into the AI APIs of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge

Chrome and Edge browsers provide built-in APIs for local AI tasks like translation and summarization using locally hosted models.

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London startup

Could a digital twin make you into a 'superworker'?

from24/7 Wall St.

Artificial intelligence

AI Compute Demand is Running Way Ahead of Supply - A Stock I'd Buy on That Signal

Tech industry

The dirty secret behind Big Tech's AI arms race: Massive hardware investments that are obsolete in 3 years | Fortune

Information security

Runtime security becomes critical as AI accelerates threats

Web development

Tap into the AI APIs of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge

Chrome and Edge browsers provide built-in APIs for local AI tasks like translation and summarization using locally hosted models.

London startup

fromwww.bbc.com

Could a digital twin make you into a 'superworker'?

Digital Richard is an AI twin that assists Richard Skellett in business and personal decision-making, serving as a model for digital twins at Bloor Research.

from24/7 Wall St.

AI Compute Demand is Running Way Ahead of Supply - A Stock I'd Buy on That Signal

AI-driven power demand is outpacing supply, creating a significant energy shortfall that may impact top energy producers.

The dirty secret behind Big Tech's AI arms race: Massive hardware investments that are obsolete in 3 years | Fortune

Hyperscalers are rapidly replacing hardware, leading to losses despite increased AI capital expenditures, which may harm long-term profitability.

Runtime security becomes critical as AI accelerates threats

Artificial intelligence accelerates innovation and cyber threats, necessitating a focus on runtime security for effective enterprise protection.

Using AWS Lambda Extensions to Run Post-Response Telemetry Flush

Lambda extensions enable post-response work, improving API response times by managing telemetry flushing without impacting request handling.

Agile

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Quantum Agile By Codewave Becomes India's first framework for software teams working with AI agents.

Quantum Agile™ is India's first framework for software teams utilizing AI agents, positioning the country as a leader in next-gen software development methodologies.

Careers

The future may be 'frustrating' for engineers seeking a 'pure software development career,' AWS VP says

Junior software engineers may increasingly engage with customers rather than solely focusing on coding in isolation.

Oracle's New AWS Partnership Just Put It Ahead of Azure and Google Cloud

Multicloud setups are essential for enterprise AI, enabling seamless data movement and integration across different cloud providers.

Software development

Why cloud migration needs a new approach

from24/7 Wall St.

Oracle's New AWS Partnership Just Put It Ahead of Azure and Google Cloud

Multicloud setups are essential for enterprise AI, enabling seamless data movement and integration across different cloud providers.

Software development

Why cloud migration needs a new approach

Salesforce wants to be the leader in ITSM

Salesforce's Agentforce IT Service aims to proactively resolve 80% of IT issues with a native AI solution, challenging the ITSM industry.

Salesforce debuts Headless 360 agentic platform

Salesforce's Headless 360 expands app-building tools beyond traditional developers, enabling API-driven interactions across various platforms.

Salesforce wants to be the leader in ITSM

Salesforce's Agentforce IT Service aims to proactively resolve 80% of IT issues with a native AI solution, challenging the ITSM industry.

Salesforce debuts Headless 360 agentic platform

Salesforce's Headless 360 expands app-building tools beyond traditional developers, enabling API-driven interactions across various platforms.

IOWN targets datacenter interconnects to spread AI infra

IOWN Global Forum focuses on datacenter interconnect use cases to enhance AI infrastructure connectivity and reduce costs for users.

Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades

Microsoft has resolved the Windows Server 2025 upgrade issue, but new problems have emerged with the cumulative update KB5082063.

fromTechRepublic

Microsoft Takes Over Key Stargate Site in Latest OpenAI Pullback

Microsoft has taken over data center capacity in Norway originally intended for OpenAI's Stargate project amid OpenAI's spending reductions.

Ease into Azure Kubernetes Application Network

Microsoft has introduced an ambient-based service network for AKS to simplify service mesh scaling and management.

13 hours ago

Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades

Microsoft has resolved the Windows Server 2025 upgrade issue, but new problems have emerged with the cumulative update KB5082063.

fromTechRepublic

Microsoft Takes Over Key Stargate Site in Latest OpenAI Pullback

Microsoft has taken over data center capacity in Norway originally intended for OpenAI's Stargate project amid OpenAI's spending reductions.

Ease into Azure Kubernetes Application Network

Microsoft has introduced an ambient-based service network for AKS to simplify service mesh scaling and management.

more#microsoft

Marketing tech

fromeLearning Industry

12 hours ago

How To Build A Marketing Technology (MarTech) Stack: Crafting A Digital Arsenal For Future Growth

A well-structured MarTech stack is essential for business growth and effective demand generation.

London startup

Data dive: A new American Century in the datacentre pipeline? | Computer Weekly

US datacentre capacity is projected to triple, while the UK will slip in global rankings for datacentre capacity.

Moving away from mainframes using AI proves unfeasible for many companies

Phasing out mainframes is often unfeasible for large organizations due to overestimated AI capabilities in modernization projects.

NodeWeaver: Perpetual licensing beats VMware nickel-and-dime

Nodeweaver offers a cost-effective alternative for VMware customers, focusing on edge computing solutions without the complexity of traditional virtualization.

#aws

DevOps

AWS Launches Agent Registry in Preview to Govern AI Agent Sprawl Across Enterprises

DevOps

AWS Introduces S3 Files, Bringing File System Access to S3 Buckets

DevOps

Troubleshooting environment with AI analysis in AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Amazon Web Services

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Tech industry

AWS revenue continues to soar as cloud demand remains high | TechCrunch

AWS Launches Agent Registry in Preview to Govern AI Agent Sprawl Across Enterprises

AWS Agent Registry provides a centralized catalog for managing AI agents, tools, and skills across organizations, addressing agent sprawl and compliance issues.

AWS Introduces S3 Files, Bringing File System Access to S3 Buckets

AWS S3 Files allows users to mount S3 buckets for standard file system access, optimizing data access for various applications.

Troubleshooting environment with AI analysis in AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Amazon Web Services

AWS Elastic Beanstalk simplifies web application deployment and scaling, now enhanced with AI Analysis for troubleshooting environment health issues.

fromTechCrunch

Tech industry

AWS revenue continues to soar as cloud demand remains high | TechCrunch

Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone

Organizations are transitioning to new algorithms to replace RSA and elliptic curves due to vulnerabilities exposed by quantum computing threats.

Marketing tech

fromThe Village Voice

Inside Hyperbound's Bet on AI-Native Sales Intelligence - The Village Voice

AI is transforming sales organizations by providing insights and coaching opportunities that traditional tools cannot offer.

fromZDNET

These companies are actually upskilling their workers for AI - here's how they do it

Companies should prioritize upskilling employees in AI to prepare for future job demands and mitigate economic impacts.

Mozilla takes on enterprise AI providers with Thunderbolt

Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client as an open-source alternative to proprietary enterprise AI platforms, emphasizing data privacy and control.

Platform as a Product: Delivering Value While Balancing Competing Priorities

Software platforms should be treated as products, requiring a balance of engineering, design, usability, and value for success.

OpenSearch is enterprise-ready with long-term support and version 3.6

OpenSearch has launched a long-term support program, ensuring 18 months of support per major release, starting with version 3.6.

Curity looks to reinvent IAM with runtime authorization for AI agents

Traditional IAM tools are inadequate for managing agent access, which is ephemeral and complex, requiring a new approach to runtime enforcement.

fromComputerworld

Curity looks to reinvent IAM with runtime authorization for AI agents

Traditional IAM tools are inadequate for managing agent access, which is ephemeral and complex, requiring a new approach to runtime enforcement.

Curity looks to reinvent IAM with runtime authorization for AI agents

Traditional IAM tools are inadequate for managing agent access, which is ephemeral and complex, requiring a new approach to runtime enforcement.

fromComputerworld

Curity looks to reinvent IAM with runtime authorization for AI agents

Traditional IAM tools are inadequate for managing agent access, which is ephemeral and complex, requiring a new approach to runtime enforcement.

more#iam

London startup

Datacentre developers tout benefits to local communities, but do they deliver? | Computer Weekly

Datacentre developments are causing challenges for local businesses, raising concerns about energy consumption and community impact despite potential local benefits.

The agent tier: Rethinking runtime architecture for context-driven enterprise workflows

Digital workflows in large enterprises struggle to adapt to contextual variations, leading to increased complexity and challenges in customer onboarding processes.

OpenAI scales back Stargate in Europe; Microsoft fills the gap

OpenAI will lease computing capacity through Microsoft instead of purchasing directly from Nscale's data center in Norway.

3 days ago

Agentic CI/CD is Not Automation: Why the Distinction Will Define DevOps in 2026 - DevOps.com

LLM-powered agents in CI/CD require a governance layer distinct from traditional automation to avoid catastrophic failures.

Commvault launches AI tools for secure agentic AI era

"In agentic environments, agents mutate state across data, systems, and configurations in ways that compound fast and are hard to trace," says Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault.

Information security

15 hours ago

AI, energy, and the new rules of cloud sustainability competition | Computer Weekly

Cloud providers offer sustainability metrics, but lack standardization makes it difficult for enterprises to compare workloads effectively.

fromBusiness Matters

5 days ago

The Role of Dedicated Servers in Scaling Modern Businesses

Infrastructure investment is crucial for SMEs to ensure reliability, performance, and user experience in a competitive digital landscape.

CNCF Warns Kubernetes Alone Is Not Enough to Secure LLM Workloads

Kubernetes lacks the capability to manage the unique risks posed by large language models in AI deployments.

DevOps

Understanding Kubernetes Architecture is a MUST

DevOps

Kubernetes Scared Me Too - Until I Actually Understood It A no-fluff intro for devs who keep

CNCF Warns Kubernetes Alone Is Not Enough to Secure LLM Workloads

Kubernetes lacks the capability to manage the unique risks posed by large language models in AI deployments.

Understanding Kubernetes Architecture is a MUST

Understanding Kubernetes architecture is essential for effective cloud-native deployment and troubleshooting.

Kubernetes Scared Me Too - Until I Actually Understood It A no-fluff intro for devs who keep

Kubernetes simplifies container orchestration, managing deployment, scaling, and traffic routing for applications across multiple servers.

Dropbox is making ChatGPT its productivity hub with three new apps

Dropbox is launching three new apps inside ChatGPT to enhance productivity and streamline coordination tasks for knowledge workers.

FinOps Isn't Slowing You Down - It's Fixing Your Pipeline - DevOps.com

Cost visibility should be integrated into DevOps workflows to manage cloud efficiency effectively.

DevOps

Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities - DevOps.com

What enterprise devops teams should learn from SaaS

Enterprise devops teams can enhance resiliency by adopting practices from SaaS providers, focusing on robust testing, monitoring, and seamless upgrades.

FinOps Isn't Slowing You Down - It's Fixing Your Pipeline - DevOps.com

Cost visibility should be integrated into DevOps workflows to manage cloud efficiency effectively.

Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities - DevOps.com

DevOps.com is launching a weekly jobs report to highlight opportunities for DevOps professionals.

What enterprise devops teams should learn from SaaS

Enterprise devops teams can enhance resiliency by adopting practices from SaaS providers, focusing on robust testing, monitoring, and seamless upgrades.

more#devops

Only 14 percent of companies achieved a high level of cloud maturity

Only 14% of organizations have achieved the highest level of cloud maturity despite AI driving demand for cloud investments.

fromFast Company

The AI race won't be won in the cloud

Community consent and trust are essential for the success of AI infrastructure, which must be built responsibly and transparently.

Cloudflare introduces new features for building and deploying agents

Cloudflare is transforming AI development with Dynamic Workers, Sandboxes, and Artifacts for secure, scalable, and efficient code execution.

fromSecurityWeek

TeamPCP Moves From OSS to AWS Environments

TeamPCP has exploited compromised credentials to target open source software, leading to significant data exfiltration and supply chain attacks.

AWS turns its S3 storage service into a file system for AI agents

S3 Files simplifies access to Amazon S3, enhancing its role as a primary data layer for AI and modern applications.

AWS S3 buckets now support file systems

S3 Files is built on Amazon EFS and automatically translates file system operations into S3 requests, allowing applications to work with S3 data without code changes.

DevOps

US politics

Inside the race to build data centers | Fortune

Mega-scale AI data centers are driving AI growth, transforming landscapes, straining energy and water resources, and creating major political and economic conflicts.

Fair Multitenancy-Beyond Simple Rate Limiting

Fair multitenancy ensures equitable infrastructure access for customers, balancing simplicity, performance, and safety in shared environments.

Securely connect AWS DevOps Agent to private services in your VPCs | Amazon Web Services

AWS DevOps Agent enhances operational efficiency by securely connecting to private resources in VPCs, optimizing performance and incident management.

Azure's new AI modernization tools

Microsoft's Azure Copilot aids in application migration and modernization, addressing technical debt and improving cloud infrastructure management.

#multicloud-strategy

Business intelligence

Why enterprises are still bad at multicloud

Artificial intelligence

Perplexity expands cloud strategy with Azure alongside AWS

Business intelligence

Why enterprises are still bad at multicloud

Artificial intelligence

Perplexity expands cloud strategy with Azure alongside AWS

more#multicloud-strategy

The next 10 years for cloud computing

Enterprises are abandoning unquestioning public cloud adoption due to high costs, limited productivity gains, and vendor lock-in, prompting providers to change strategies.

Rethinking VM data protection in cloud-native environments

KubeVirt enables Kubernetes to manage both VMs and containers, requiring new strategies for VM lifecycle management and data protection.

Cloud Cloning: A new approach to infrastructure portability

Cloud Cloning captures complete cloud infrastructure snapshots and maps them onto target cloud services and configurations to enable accurate cloud portability.

The private cloud returns, for AI workloads

A North American manufacturer spent most of 2024 and early 2025 doing what many innovative enterprises did: aggressively standardizing on the public cloud by using data lakes, analytics, CI/CD, and even a good chunk of ERP integration. The board liked the narrative because it sounded like simplification, and simplification sounded like savings. Then generative AI arrived, not as a lab toy but as a mandate. "Put copilots everywhere," leadership said. "Start with maintenance, then procurement, then the call center, then engineering change orders."

Artificial intelligence

Microsoft's shift to cloud management sw brings concerns

Microsoft will deprecate SCOM management packs for SQL Server Reporting Services, Power BI Report Server and Analysis Services; support and updates end January 2027.

4 weeks ago

Cloud at 20: Cost, complexity, and control

Cloud computing has failed to deliver on its promise of simplified IT operations and cost savings, instead creating greater complexity and spiraling expenses for most enterprises.

Five MCP servers to rule the cloud

Major cloud providers now offer official MCP servers that let AI agents automate cloud operations using existing cloud credentials and natural language commands.

Why cloud outages are becoming normal

Recurrent cloud outages disrupt enterprise operations worldwide, driven by misconfigurations, neglected resilience, rising complexity, and staffing challenges.

fromThe Hacker News

When Cloud Outages Ripple Across the Internet

Cloud infrastructure outages can disable identity authentication and authorization, creating hidden single points of failure that cause broad operational and security impacts.

Do neoclouds mean a world where anything is possible? | Computer Weekly

Neoclouds are emerging GPU-as-a-service providers gaining investment and market attention as alternatives to dominant hyperscalers, filling real demand for AI and large language model training infrastructure.

fromUnited States Edition

Spotlight report: Accelerating Data Center Modernization

Data center modernization is critical for AI deployment, requiring integrated infrastructure solutions across servers, storage, networking, and security.