HostingJournalist Hits Milestone: 30,000 Articles, 28,000 Videos Published
📅 - As a leading international news platform covering the global cloud, hosting, and data center industries, HostingJournalist.com has hit a significant milestone today with the publication of the 30,000th editorial news article and over 28,000 videos across its digital channels.
This achievement underscores the news platform's continued commitment to delivering comprehensive, real-time industry coverage to a growing audience of IT professionals, decision-makers, and infrastructure providers worldwide.
Since its launch in 2013, HostingJournalist.com has built a reputation as a reliable and insightful source of daily news, analysis, and interviews. The platform now serves readers in the US, [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Slide Secures $25 Million Series A to Revolutionize BCDR for MSPs - Slide, a rising player in the business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) market, has secured $25 million in a Series A funding round aimed at accelerating its mission to deliver a modern, high-performance BCDR platform tailored specifically for managed service providers (MSPs).
The round was led by Base10 Partners, with strategic participation from Outsiders Fund and Top Down Ventures - investors known for their operational insight and track record in the MSP ecosystem.
Founded by Datto alumni Austin McChord and Michael Fass, Slide enters the BCDR space with a clear purpose: to offer MSPs a faster, more secure, and service-oriented alternative to legacy solutions. The company [...]
📅 - Vultr Opens Pre-Orders for AMD MI355X GPUs Ahead of Q3 Launch - Being one of the first public-cloud platforms to guarantee volume access to AMD's new flagship accelerator when production units start shipping in the third quarter, cloud infrastructure provider Vultr has started its reservation queue for the upcoming Instinct MI355X GPU.
This week's announcement of the pre-order program puts Vultr in a position to meet demand from developers and businesses who have had difficulty securing capacity due to a worldwide lack of high-performance AI silicon.
The main component of AMD's fourth-generation CDNA architecture is the MI355X. In order to minimize inter-GPU communication overhead and keep huge transformer models resident in memory, each board has [...]
📅 - Nokia Expands IP Routing for Smart Grid Utilities - Nokia has announced a significant enhancement of its IP routing platforms to support the increasing demands of mission-critical networks, especially as utility companies worldwide shift toward smart grid technologies. With utilities under mounting pressure to modernize infrastructure in response to rising cybersecurity threats, climate-related disruptions, and regulatory requirements, Nokia is positioning its expanded offerings as key enablers of digital grid transformation.
The update includes the expansion of Nokia's 7705 Service Aggregation Router (SAR) and 7250 Interconnect Router (IXR) platforms. These systems are engineered to deliver the performance, scalability, and security [...]
ZTE is steadfast in its commitment to its role as a "Driver of the Digital Economy" amidst the rapidly growing global digitalization wave. It is pursuing its sustainability agenda in two ways: by enabling digital and low-carbon transformation across industries through state-of-the-art technologies, and by making notable progress in green operations guided by science-based carbon targets.
"The new wave of AI-driven technological revolution, particularly the boom of large models and [...]
📅 - UAE-IX Upgraded to 400G, Boosting Middle East Connectivity - Dubai's flagship peering hub has raised the bar for regional interconnection. DE-CIX and datamena confirmed this week that UAE-IX, the neutral Internet exchange they jointly operate in the emirate, is now handing off traffic at 400-gigabit Ethernet line rate. The upgrade, delivered on the same switching fabric that supports the platform's existing 10, 25 and 100 Gbps ports, makes UAE-IX the first and only exchange in the Middle East able to offer customers a single 400 GbE interface.
The technical uplift arrives amid brisk growth in aggregate capacity. Over the past twelve months networks at the exchange have booked an additional two terabits per second of connected bandwidth, a 30 [...]
📅 - Alchip, Astera Labs Partner to Boost Rack-Level AI Infrastructure - Alchip Technologies and Astera Labs have announced a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the development of next-generation AI infrastructure for hyperscalers. The alliance brings together Alchip's expertise in high-performance ASIC design with Astera Labs' advanced connectivity portfolio, forming a combined solution for rack-scale deployments of AI systems.
The collaboration targets hyperscale cloud operators that are rapidly evolving their AI platforms to meet growing demands for model complexity and scale. As these AI workloads increasingly require custom silicon and high-throughput interconnects, the joint solution aims to provide validated, interoperable components that [...]