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Equinix launches Fabric Intelligence for AI networks

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Equinix adds AI-driven network controls as enterprises race to scale distributed workloads.
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Virtuozzo appoints board directors in leadership reset

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Virtuozzo adds Jason Magee, Charles Ryan and Peter Bergstrom as it unifies cloud tools under Chief Executive Officer Kurt Daniel and eyes expansion.
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The why and what of FIPS 140-3 validation in modern cybersecurity

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Why FIPS 140-3 validation matters as organisations face tougher cyber rules, tighter assurance demands and the need for independently tested encryption.
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Vultr named NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud after Blackwell tests

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Vultr joins NVIDIA's Exemplar Cloud programme after Blackwell benchmark tests on a 512-node cluster across 11 AI training models.
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Rafay & Argentum AI strike software orchestration deal

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Rafay and Argentum AI partner to streamline tailored GPU compute environments for hyperscalers and enterprises across a global AI infrastructure network.
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Nutanix expands Kubernetes & AI push for neoclouds

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Nutanix unveils bare-metal Kubernetes support and widens Agentic AI plans to help neocloud providers offer managed GPU services.
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Argentum AI picks Rafay for GPU software orchestration

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Argentum AI taps Rafay Systems to streamline customer-specific GPU environments across its global data centre footprint as AI demand surges.
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Akamai appoints Fiona Zhang to lead APJ channel sales

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Akamai taps Fiona Zhang for expanded Asia Pacific and Japan role as it pushes channel-led growth and deepens partner ties.
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Nutanix targets VMware escapees with multitenant cloud push

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Nutanix rolls out multitenant cloud tools, partner verification and migration pricing to lure service providers leaving VMware.
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1Kosmos wins Department of War IL4 identity approval

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1Kosmos wins Department of War IL4 identity approval, extending its FedRAMP High platform to mission-critical defence workloads and partner access.
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Creative ITC hires Lewis Pinner as Chief Revenue Officer

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Creative ITC appoints veteran industry executive Lewis Pinner as Chief Revenue Officer to drive overseas expansion and deepen customer growth.
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Aligned Data Centres secures USD $2.58 billion facility

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Aligned Data Centres lands USD $2.58 billion revolving credit line as institutional lenders back US build-out amid AI-driven demand.
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Nvidia & OpenNebula deepen integration for AI factories

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Nvidia deepens its OpenNebula tie-up to automate multi-tenant 'AI factories', unifying GPUs, DPUs and networking under one control plane.
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Zadara aligns AI cloud platform with NVIDIA security guide

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Zadara aligns its sovereign multi-tenant AI cloud with NVIDIA's security guide to boost isolation, governance and shared GPU utilisation.
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Amazon leads concentrated global hyperscale market

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Amazon leads the concentrated global hyperscale data centre market, as the top 10 providers captured 46% of 2024 revenue.
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Fujikura to invest JPY ¥300bn to triple fibre output

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Fujikura plans up to JPY ¥300bn in Japan-US investments to triple optical fibre output for booming AI data centre networks.
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HPE expands NVIDIA-based Cray & AI Factory systems

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HPE boosts its AI and supercomputing line-up with new NVIDIA-powered Cray blades and AI Factory systems for trillion-parameter models.
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Biznet Gio scales cloud performance for AI era with AMD

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Indonesia's top local cloud player Biznet Gio boosts AI-ready performance, efficiency and scale by standardising on AMD EPYC CPUs.
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AI-fuelled DDoS attacks surge past eight million globally

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AI-driven botnets fuel eight million DDoS attacks in late 2025, as multi-vector assaults hit 30 Tbps and strain global critical services.
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Edera unveils vendor-agnostic control plane for GPUs

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Edera debuts a vendor-neutral GPU control plane to boost secure multi-tenancy, speed start-up times and unify mixed-accelerator fleets.