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Palo Alto to Buy Chronosphere for $3.35B to Boost AI Observability - 📅 - Palo Alto Networks is making one of its most aggressive moves yet in the race to build infrastructure for AI-driven enterprises. The cybersecurity giant announced a definitive agreement to acquire Chronosphere, a fast-growing observability platform engineered to handle the scale, latency, and resilience requirements of modern cloud and AI workloads.

The $3.35 billion acquisition signals Palo Alto Networks' intention to unify telemetry, AI automation, and security into a single data platform capable of supporting the next wave of hyperscale applications.

At the center of this deal is an industrywide shift: AI data centers and cloud-native environments now depend on uninterrupted uptime, [...]
StorPool Launches New HCI Stack Integrated with Oracle Virtualization - 📅 - While StorPool Storage delivers sub-100µs in-VM latency and a robust data-management platform for always-on operations, it also effortlessly connects with Oracle Virtualization, which offers full-featured KVM management with simple, predictable maintenance economics.

The solution gives companies all around the world an automated, enterprise-grade, and user-friendly base for their crucial business tasks.

When teams are switching from alternative hypervisors and HCI solutions or returning from the public cloud, the software-based solution for HCI simplifies the process by integrating computing, storage, networking, and orchestration. It offers attractive RPO/RTO targets, end-to-end [...]
Cloudflare Outage Traced to Internal Error, Not Cyberattack - 📅 - Cloudflare is detailing the root cause of a major global outage that disrupted traffic across a large portion of the Internet on November 18, 2025, marking the company's most severe service incident since 2019. While early internal investigations briefly raised the possibility of a hyper-scale DDoS attack, Cloudflare cofounder and CEO Matthew Prince confirmed that the outage was entirely self-inflicted.

The Cloudflare disruption, which began at 11:20 UTC, produced spikes of HTTP 5xx errors for users attempting to access websites, APIs, security services, and applications running through Cloudflare's network - an infrastructure layer relied upon by millions of organizations [...]
IONOS Deploys Distributed High-Performance Network with VyOS - 📅 - VyOS Networks is expanding its footprint in the enterprise cloud ecosystem as IONOS, one of Europe's largest hosting and infrastructure providers, has completed a broad deployment of the VyOS open-source network operating system across its Bare Metal platform.

The rollout marks a significant architectural shift for IONOS, replacing centralized, hardware-dependent networking models with a distributed, software-defined approach designed to support massive scale, improve resilience, and reduce operational costs.

The deployment reflects a growing trend among global cloud providers: leveraging open-source network operating systems to accelerate infrastructure modernization while avoiding [...]
VAST Data, Microsoft Unite to Deliver High-Scale Agentic AI on Azure - 📅 - VAST Data and Microsoft are deepening their alignment around next-generation AI infrastructure, announcing a new collaboration that will bring the VAST Data AI Operating System (AI OS) natively to Microsoft Azure. Unveiled at Microsoft Ignite, the partnership positions VAST Data as a strategic technology layer supporting what both companies describe as the coming wave of agentic AI.

These AI systems composed of autonomous, continuously reasoning software agents operate on massive, real-time datasets.

For Azure customers, the integration means they will be able to deploy VAST's full data platform directly within the Microsoft cloud, using the same governance, security, operational [...]
AI Demand Reshapes Global Data Center Costs, Says New Report - 📅 - Global data center construction is entering a period of rapid divergence as AI demand reshapes cost structures, power availability, and infrastructure strategy worldwide, according to a new analysis from Turner & Townsend, a multinational professional services company headquartered in Leeds, United Kingdom.

As one of the world's largest construction consultancies, Turner & Townsend provides program management, cost management, and infrastructure advisory services across property, transportation, and natural resources - and its newly released Data Centre Construction Cost Index 2025 signals a turning point for the industry.

The report reveals a market in which traditional cloud facilities [...]
Delta and Siemens Partner on Modular Power Systems for AI Data Centers - 📅 - Delta and Siemens Smart Infrastructure are deepening their collaboration in the global data center market with a new partnership aimed at accelerating the deployment of high-density, power-intensive AI and cloud workloads. The companies have formalized a global agreement to co-deliver prefabricated, modular power systems that promise faster buildouts, lower capital expenditure, and improved reliability for hyperscale and colocation operators.

The partnership combines Siemens' expertise in electrical power distribution and engineering services with Delta's high-efficiency UPS systems, battery technologies, and advanced cooling solutions. The joint offering centers on fully integrated, [...]
Germany Breaks Ground on €11B AI Mega Data Center in Lübbenau - 📅 - Germany has taken a high-visibility step toward reclaiming technological independence with the launch of an €11 billion (roughly $13 billion) mega data center project in the small town of Lübbenau, about 100 kilometers southeast of Berlin. The Schwarz Group - the retail conglomerate behind Lidl and Kaufland - has officially broken ground on what could become one of Europe's largest GPU-accelerated computing sites.

It would position the new data center as a critical pillar for building a domestic AI ecosystem capable of competing with the United States and China.

At a rainy inauguration ceremony, executives joined German Minister for Digitalization and Government Modernization Karsten [...]
Parallels Releases RAS 21.0 with Enhanced Hybrid Cloud Management - 📅 - Prashant Ketkar, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Parallels, stated, "Parallels RAS 21.0 introduces major advancements that meet the evolving priorities of IT leaders striving to balance security, productivity, and cost efficiency. This release demonstrates our dedication to providing businesses with a unified digital workspace experience - one that offers enterprise-grade security, intelligent automation, and simplified deployment."
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With tighter integration into Microsoft Azure and other multi-cloud platforms, Parallels RAS 21.0 increases the flexibility of hybrid cloud deployments and facilitates resource provisioning, scaling, and management across [...]
IonQ Acquires Skyloom to Advance Quantum-Secure Optical Networking - 📅 - IonQ is expanding its ambitions in quantum-secure communications with a definitive agreement to acquire Skyloom Global, a U.S. company specializing in high-performance optical communications for both terrestrial and orbital networks. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The acquisition brings Skyloom's rapidly scaling optical communications terminal (OCT) technology into IonQ's growing ecosystem, strengthening the company's effort to build a fully integrated global quantum infrastructure platform.

Skyloom, founded in 2017, has become a key supplier of laser-based communications terminals for U.S. government and commercial missions. The company has delivered nearly 90 [...]