📅 - The steady expansion of artificial intelligence inside enterprise data centers is beginning to reshape one of the industry's most mature segments: enterprise storage. New market data from IDC shows that while overall growth in external enterprise storage systems remains modest, demand is increasingly being pulled toward high-performance flash platforms designed to support AI training and inference workloads.
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, the external OEM enterprise storage systems market grew 2.1 percent year over year in the third quarter of 2025, reaching $8.0 billion in vendor revenue. For a market long characterized by incremental growth [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Persistent, DigitalOcean Partner to Lower Barriers to AI Scale - Persistent Systems and DigitalOcean have entered into a strategic partnership aimed at lowering the cost and complexity of enterprise AI adoption, as organizations increasingly move from experimentation to production-scale deployment of agentic and generative AI systems.
The collaboration brings together Persistent's digital engineering and AI platform capabilities with DigitalOcean's agentic cloud infrastructure, positioning the two companies to address growing demand for scalable, secure, and economically predictable AI environments.
At the center of the partnership is SASVA, Persistent's AI-powered platform designed to integrate code, documentation, architecture artifacts, and [...]
📅 - CrowdStrike Expands Falcon Platform to Secure AI Interactions - CrowdStrike has moved to address what it describes as one of the fastest-emerging risks in enterprise AI by announcing the general availability of Falcon AI Detection and Response (AIDR), a security capability designed to protect the interaction layer where humans and AI systems increasingly meet.
As generative AI tools and autonomous agents become embedded in everyday workflows, the company is positioning prompt and agent interactions as a new, distinct attack surface that requires the same level of protection as endpoints, identities, and cloud workloads.
Falcon AIDR extends the existing Falcon platform to monitor and secure prompts, responses, and agent actions in real time. [...]
📅 - Aravolta Raises $5.1M for AI-Era Data Center Control Software - Aravolta has raised $5.1 million to accelerate the development of a next-generation data center operations platform designed for the AI era, as operators grapple with the operational complexity introduced by GPU-dense infrastructure. The funding highlights growing investor interest in software that can manage the tightly coupled power, cooling, and networking systems underpinning modern AI workloads.
The company positions itself at the intersection of data center infrastructure management (DCIM), electrical power monitoring systems (EPMS), and building management systems (BMS), integrating traditionally siloed operational data into a single, actionable control layer. While DCIM has long [...]
📅 - Element Critical Launches U.S. Data Center Platform - Element Critical has unveiled a new U.S. data center platform backed by a consortium of institutional investors. The platform launch is anchored by the acquisition of two enterprise data center facilities located in Houston and Austin, positioning Texas as the initial foundation for a broader national expansion strategy.
The new data center platform would signal continued confidence in enterprise-focused digital infrastructure as demand accelerates from AI-driven workloads and power-constrained markets.
The new data center platform is supported by 26North, Arctos, Mercuria, and Safanad. Together, the partners aim to accelerate acquisitions, development, and market entry across key U.S. [...]
📅 - Tencent Cloud Launches EdgeOne Pages Platform for Developers - Tencent Cloud has formally launched EdgeOne Pages, expanding its edge computing portfolio with a platform designed to simplify how developers build, deploy, and operate web applications globally. The release advances Tencent Cloud's strategy to deliver an integrated platform for modern, AI-driven application development at global scale.
Since its beta debut in October 2024, EdgeOne Pages has seen rapid uptake, with more than 150,000 users completing over one million deployments. The official version builds on that early adoption by adding features shaped by user feedback, including built-in analytics, configurable security controls, broader framework support, key-value storage, and [...]
📅 - Happy Holidays: Final Days of the Membership Black Friday Offer - As 2025 draws to a close and the holiday season approaches, many companies in the cloud, hosting, and data center sector are reviewing their activities over the past year. This period is often used to assess commercial performance, marketing efforts, and how factors such as visibility, positioning, and content strategy have supported business objectives.
As companies define their marketing and communication strategies for 2026, visibility within relevant professional audiences is becoming a higher priority. In the cloud, hosting, telecom, and data center sectors, organizations are increasingly looking for ways to publish content in news environments that offer industry context, [...]