Microsoft plans to invest more than $10 billion across Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates through 2030, with spending directed towards cloud and AI infrastructure and its operations in the region. The investment will include capital and operating expenditure as Microsoft expands computing capacity across the four Gulf states. The company has […]
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Alibaba Cloud plans to expand its global data centre capacity to more than 20 gigawatts by 2032 as the company increases infrastructure spending for AI computing. Alibaba Group CEO Eddie Wu announced the target at the company’s Apsara Conference in Hangzhou yesterday. Alibaba did not disclose its current data centre capacity or provide a regional […]
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Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers have demonstrated how an indirect prompt-injection attack against AWS’ AgentCore Harness could be used to extract plaintext credentials managed by AgentCore Identity. The researchers said the attack worked with a default Harness configuration, combining malicious instructions embedded in external content with its built-in shell tool. AWS reviewed the disclosure […]
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AWS has said it cannot restore access to some resources and data in Bahrain and one Availability Zone in the UAE after physical damage affected its cloud infrastructure. In a September 15 update, AWS said it had exhausted its options for restoring data and resources that had not been migrated before its Middle East (Bahrain) […]
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The UAE is reviewing the design of its planned 5GW AI data centre project after Iranian missile and drone attacks damaged cloud infrastructure in the UAE and Bahrain, Reuters reported. Originally planned as a 10-square-mile campus in Abu Dhabi, the project will now likely comprise a network of data centres spread across the UAE, according […]
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Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have introduced managed private connectivity between their cloud platforms, allowing customers to establish dedicated network links between AWS and Microsoft Azure. AWS Interconnect – multicloud with Azure and Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS are now available in public preview. The two services work together to provide private cloud-to-cloud connectivity without […]
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IBM is preparing to deploy a large NVIDIA-based AI computing cluster on IBM Cloud under a multiyear agreement with Together AI worth $240 million. The cluster is expected to become available in the first quarter of 2027 and will use NVIDIA HGX B300 systems connected through NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. Together AI plans to use […]
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Oracle and Quantinuum have entered a multi-year partnership to make Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer available through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, giving OCI customers access to quantum hardware alongside existing GPU and high-performance computing services. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the companies did not provide a deployment date. Oracle plans to preview its OCI quantum service […]
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Nokia has signed a multi-year agreement with SAP to move more of its enterprise resource planning environment to SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure. The agreement was concluded at the end of 2025, according to SAP. It will use the RISE with SAP Methodology, covering Nokia’s ERP processes, data, applications, and operating models. The work is […]
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Indonesian telecommunications company XLSMART has completed a public cloud migration to Tencent Cloud, moving core systems and business assets onto the platform. The project took four and a half months. XLSMART said the migration covered more than 60 core applications, 1,200 microservices, 1,100 APIs, 900 business interfaces, and more than 15TB of core assets. The […]
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