The US government is to gain access to new AI and high-performance computing tools as AWS prepares a major expansion of its secure cloud systems. The company plans to invest up to $50 billion starting in 2026 to build out AI and supercomputing capacity in its Top Secret, Secret, and GovCloud regions. The buildout will […]
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Google Cloud has picked up another major contract to deliver secure, sovereign cloud services to a military agency, only a few months after it signed a similar deal with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). The agreement will see the Nato Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) use Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), an air-gapped system built […]
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Resilience used to mean a disaster recovery document in a drawer and a secondary data centre on standby. But new payment methods, rising fraud, tougher regulation, and global expansion plans mean that resilience now depends on payment systems that can flex, reroute, and recover without sacrificing performance or compliance. Done well, resilience becomes a growth […]
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Resilience used to mean a disaster recovery document in a drawer and a secondary data centre on standby. But new payment methods, rising fraud, tougher regulation, and global expansion plans mean that resilience now depends on payment systems that can flex, reroute, and recover without sacrificing performance or compliance. Done well, resilience becomes a growth […]
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The growing use of AI is driving up cloud storage costs as enterprises struggle to track what data they’re storing, why it’s kept, and how to manage it efficiently. To help address this, Datadog has launched Storage Management, now generally available for Amazon S3 and in preview for Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage. […]
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Google is investing another €5 billion in Belgium over the next two years to boost its cloud and AI infrastructure. That effort includes expanding its data centre locations in Saint-Ghislain and creating 300 new full-time jobs. At the same time, it’s inked deals with Eneco, Luminus, and Renner to help develop onshore wind farms and […]
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Google layoffs have hit more than 100 workers in its design teams, marking the latest round of job cuts tied to the company’s shift toward AI and tighter spending. Earlier this week, Google layoffs affected parts of the cloud division, including teams working on user experience research, and platform and service experience. Internal documents seen […]
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The challenge of building efficient cloud AI infrastructure has always been about scale – not just adding more servers, but making those servers work together seamlessly. At Huawei Connect 2025, the Chinese technology giant unveiled an approach that changes how cloud providers and enterprises can pool computing resources. Instead of managing thousands of independent servers […]
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Integrated circuit company Montage Technology has launched its CXL 3.1 Memory eXpander Controller (MXC), which is currently being tested by some of its key customers, including AMD and Intel. The controller is compliant with the CXL 3.1 Type 3 specification – the latest version of the CXL interconnect standard – and supports CXL.mem and CXL.io […]
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Chinese tech firms are trying to raise cash as the fight for market share in AI heats up, and Alibaba is taking the lead. The e-commerce giant is seeking about US$3.17 billion through the sale of zero-coupon convertible notes, a deal set to be the largest of its kind this year. The notes, due in […]
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