Tech startup Echo has raised $35 million in Series A funding just four months after announcing a $15 million seed round, bringing its total capital raised to $50 million in less than ten months. The rapid fundraising pace highlights growing enterprise concern over cloud security as artificial intelligence reshapes both software development and cyber threats.
The Series A round was led by N47, with participation from Notable Capital, Hyperwise Ventures, and SentinelOne's S Ventures.
The company is positioning itself as a provider of AI-native secure infrastructure for cloud applications, targeting a foundational [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Nostrum Data Centers to Go Live in Spain in 2027 - Nostrum Data Centers has confirmed that its portfolio of AI-ready, sustainable data center assets across Spain will go live in 2027, marking a significant addition to Europe's fast-expanding digital infrastructure landscape. The announcement comes as enterprises, cloud providers, and AI developers across the region face intensifying demand for high-density computing capacity, reliable connectivity, and environmentally responsible operations.
The Spain-based developer said it is building more than 500MW of sustainable IT capacity nationwide, positioning its sites to support large-scale AI, cloud, and hyperscale workloads. Nostrum has already secured approximately 300MW of power capacity, [...]
📅 - Arista Expands Cognitive Campus With VESPA and Agentic AI - Along with important additions to its campus switching portfolio that bring the strength, dependability, and ease of use of Arista's EOS (Extensible Operating System) to outdoor settings, the company also announced an expansion of Arista AVA (Autonomous Virtual Assist) agentic AI, which is intended to further streamline AI Ops use cases.
Todd Nightingale, President and COO of Arista, stated, "Arista is seeing continuous momentum in the campus as customers see the benefit of a single, consistent network experience across all domains, including the AI and data center, cloud, campus, branch, and enterprise WAN." "Arista is assisting customers in removing vendor silos and tool sprawl by [...]
📅 - Cloudflare Releases Top Internet Trends for 2025 - Cloudflare has released its sixth annual Year in Review, offering a detailed snapshot of how the global Internet evolved during 2025 amid rising automation, intensifying cyber threats, and rapid advances in cryptography.
Drawing on data from its global network, the report outlines a year marked by significant growth in traffic volumes, escalating "bot wars," and a notable shift in the targets and scale of online attacks, underscoring how deeply digital infrastructure has become embedded in economic, social, and political life.
According to Cloudflare's analysis, global Internet traffic grew 19 percent year over year, reflecting both continued digitalization across industries and [...]
📅 - AI Fuels Rapid Expansion of Cloud Security Attack Surface - Enterprise AI adoption is dramatically expanding the cloud attack surface, leaving organizations exposed to faster, more complex cyber threats than existing security models can handle. According to new research from Palo Alto Networks, companies are deploying AI workloads and cloud-native applications at a pace that far exceeds their ability to secure them, creating systemic risk across modern cloud environments.
According to the findings, cloud infrastructure has become a primary target as AI systems scale, with 99 percent of respondents reporting at least one attack on their AI-related environments over the past year. The report highlights that this is not simply a volume problem, but a [...]
Hosted.com's research draws attention to shifts in hosting technology, security, sustainability, and infrastructure shaping the coming year for service providers, online businesses, site owners, and content creators. According to Hosted.com's article, the following web hosting trends are set to redefine and further improve website performance, security, and stability.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Hosting Server Management
Hosting platforms will increasingly integrate AI tools to automate tasks that traditionally required continuous human oversight and input.
This includes managing server load and content delivery, predicting [...]
📅 - NVIDIA Unveils Nemotron 3 Open Models for Agentic AI - Enterprise demand for agentic AI is pushing model developers to rethink both scale and efficiency, and NVIDIA is responding by opening up a new generation of models designed specifically for multi-agent systems. The company has introduced the Nemotron 3 family of open models, positioning it as a foundational platform for building transparent, high-performance AI agents that can collaborate at scale while keeping compute and inference costs under control.
Nemotron 3 arrives as organizations move beyond single large language models toward distributed AI systems composed of multiple specialized agents working together. This shift has exposed new challenges for developers, including [...]