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Jun, 2026 : Sharon AI Expands VAST Deal for Sovereign AI in APAC
📅 - Sharon AI will deploy 600PB of VAST Data's AI Operating System across its cloud infrastructure, deepening a partnership aimed at sovereign AI services for Australia and Asia-Pacific customers in government, research, enterprise, and AI-native markets, as regional buyers look for more control over where sensitive data is stored, processed, governed, and monetized at scale.
The agreement gives Sharon AI a large data layer to sit beneath its AI cloud platform. Not GPUs. Not models. The less glamorous part: storage architecture, data movement, tenancy controls, performance isolation, and the machinery required to keep accelerator clusters from waiting around for information.
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📅 - SAP Startup Studio Targets Enterprise AI Startups - SAP Labs India has opened applications for its 2026 Startup Studio cohort, extending a ten-year accelerator program that now looks less like startup theater and more like SAP's attempt to pull enterprise AI, robotics, cloud infrastructure, industrial systems, and security startups closer to its product machinery before customers make their own choices alone.
The program runs for six months. The target group is early and growth-stage companies building tools that can plausibly survive enterprise procurement, integration reviews, security checks, and the long patience test that comes with selling into large organizations.
SAP says the 2026 cohort will work across enterprise AI, agentic [...]
📅 - Nokia Expands US Photonic Packaging for AI Infrastructure - Nokia will expand advanced test and packaging operations in Allentown, Pennsylvania, increasing U.S. production capacity for optical networking components used in AI and telecom infrastructure. The company says the project could lift site capacity tenfold, nearly double its Pennsylvania workforce to more than 500 jobs, and generate over $500 million in economic impact within five years.
The announcement sits at the intersection of two shortages: AI networking capacity and domestic semiconductor packaging. Chips get most of the attention. Packaging, testing, optical modules, power efficiency, and manufacturing geography increasingly decide how quickly those chips become usable [...]
📅 - Data4 Plans €5B AI Data Center Campus in Northern France - Data4 will spend €5 billion building a 700 MW data center campus in Escaudain, Northern France, converting a former industrial site into what it says will be its largest French project as Europe scrambles for cloud and AI capacity, lower-carbon infrastructure, and greater control over the physical systems behind its digital economy today.
The numbers are large enough to be politically useful. They are also large enough to invite harder questions.
Data4's plan for the former Parc des Soufflantes site lands at a moment when European governments are trying to turn AI sovereignty from conference language into steel, substations, fiber routes, and construction permits. The company says the [...]
📅 - Platform9 Offers VMware Providers a Post-Broadcom Exit - Platform9 is targeting cloud providers unsettled by Broadcom's VMware overhaul with a new partner program offering migration help, regional pricing, and temporary unlimited-core terms before VMware's cloud provider program ends in March 2027, giving infrastructure operators another exit route as they try to protect customers, margins, and hardware investments under immediate commercial and operational pressure right now.
The company's Platform9 Cloud Solution Provider Program is aimed at a specific and anxious market: service providers that built rentable private cloud estates on VMware and now have to decide whether to absorb new economics, re-platform customers, or rebuild commercial [...]
📅 - Report Finds Enterprise Servers Broadly Exposed Inside - Zero Networks says most enterprise servers remain exposed once attackers breach the perimeter, with its 2026 Lateral Movement Exposure Report finding 80% reachable from anywhere inside corporate networks, a level of internal openness that leaves ransomware crews, credential thieves, and increasingly automated intruders with room to move before defenders can contain the damage at scale today globally.
The finding comes from analysis of 54 trillion activities across 312 enterprise environments over one month. That is a large enough sample to make security teams uncomfortable, even allowing for vendor framing. The report lands in a market that has spent heavily on identity, endpoint [...]
📅 - Utrecht University Files Claim After NorthC Netherlands Fire - Utrecht University has lodged an open-ended damages claim against KPN after a fire-related outage at NorthC's Almere data center in the Netherlands disrupted university systems for more than a week, raising fresh questions about outsourcing chains, contractual accountability, and operational resilience in Dutch digital infrastructure where ownership, leasing, and service delivery no longer line up neatly for customers and operators.
The claim is not aimed directly at NorthC, even though the university's servers were housed in the Almere facility. Utrecht University's contract runs through KPN, which has procured data center services from the site under an arrangement dating back to 2016. [...]