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Oracle Cloud Growth Rides AI Demand as Capex Pressure Builds
📅 - Oracle reported stronger fiscal fourth-quarter revenue and profit, but the larger story is its accelerating turn into an AI cloud infrastructure provider. Cloud infrastructure revenue nearly doubled, contracted demand ballooned, and capital expenditure surged as Oracle races to build enough data center capacity for enterprises shifting AI workloads from pilots into production globally.
The company's numbers show why Oracle is suddenly harder to categorize. It is still an enterprise software company, still tied deeply to databases, applications and long-term customer contracts. But the growth narrative has moved elsewhere. Into cloud infrastructure. Into AI capacity. Into the expensive [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Dapple Raises $30M to Build Dedicated Enterprise AI Cloud - Dapple has raised $30 million in seed funding from The Raptor Group and Ion Pacific to expand its Enterprise OS Cloud, a dedicated AI infrastructure model aimed at companies needing single-tenant capacity, in-country deployment, predictable performance and auditable governance as hyperscaler supply remains tight and raw GPU rental often lacks enterprise controls for production AI today.
The company says it has moved unusually fast: five months from launch to production workloads and more than $100 million in customer contracts. Those numbers will attract attention. They will also invite scrutiny, because AI infrastructure funding rounds now sit at the uncomfortable intersection of genuine [...]
📅 - Arista Targets AI Cluster Bottlenecks With 1.6T Ethernet - Arista Networks has introduced its 7060XE7 Series, a 1.6-terabit Ethernet switching portfolio for rack-scale AI fabrics, as hyperscale customers try to connect larger accelerator clusters without letting power, cooling and congestion turn expensive GPUs into stranded capacity. The systems target air, liquid and hybrid-cooled environments built around AMD, Broadcom and major cloud operators today at scale globally.
The launch lands in a market where the server is no longer the only unit of AI infrastructure that matters. A single accelerator is useful. A rack of accelerators is expensive. Hundreds of thousands of XPUs connected poorly are a capital problem wearing a technical [...]
📅 - Arrow Opens Global AI and Cloud Experience Centers - Arrow Electronics has opened linked experience centers in Alpharetta and Stockholm to help vendors, channel partners and customers test AI, cloud and security deployments before buying, as enterprises struggle to turn interest in high-growth technologies into workable infrastructure projects and channel providers look for faster ways to prove, price and sell complex multivendor solutions at scale now.
The centers are positioned as demonstration and engineering hubs rather than showrooms. That is the useful part. Enterprises have already heard enough about AI strategy. Many are now stuck on less elegant questions: where the data sits, which infrastructure stack can run the workload, how [...]
📅 - Linux Foundation Opens AI Sharing Protocol for Enterprise AI - The Linux Foundation has launched OpenSharing, a vendor-neutral protocol contributed by Databricks, to standardize how enterprises exchange AI agents, models and data across platforms, while a separate European talent report warns that AI adoption is running into security, privacy and skills constraints faster than organizations can hire their way out of them in 2026 alone across Europe.
The two announcements are not the same story. But they point in the same direction: AI is becoming an integration problem as much as a model problem.
OpenSharing is being positioned as an open protocol for sharing AI assets across organizations and platforms. It builds on Databricks' Delta Sharing [...]
📅 - OVHcloud Moves to Acquire Gladia as Voice AI Turns Strategic - OVHcloud has entered exclusive talks to acquire Paris-based Gladia, a voice AI specialist whose speech-to-text platform supports real-time and batch transcription across more than 100 languages, as the French cloud provider tries to deepen its sovereign AI stack with multimodal and agentic capabilities. Financial terms were not disclosed for the proposed transaction by the two companies.
The move would bring Gladia's speech-to-text technology inside OVH Groupe, rather than leaving voice AI as another external API dependency layered on top of its cloud services. That is the strategic point. OVHcloud is not just buying a feature. It is trying to own more of the AI stack.
Gladia, founded in [...]
📅 - RETN Adds Miami and Ashburn PoPs to Serve East Coast Traffic - RETN has launched two U.S. points of presence in Miami and Ashburn, adding capacity at Equinix MI1 and Equinix DC10 as the independent network provider looks to serve media platforms, CDNs, ISPs and enterprises needing lower-latency access to East Coast peering hubs and Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity options in a crowded connectivity market this year.
The move is modest in footprint but not meaningless. Miami and Ashburn sit in very different parts of the traffic map, and both matter for buyers trying to manage performance, cost and reach without handing every connectivity decision to a hyperscaler or incumbent carrier.
Ashburn is the obvious one. Northern Virginia remains one of the [...]