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CoreSite Expands New York Presence with Launch of NY3 Data Center - 📅 - CoreSite, a subsidiary of American Tower, has expanded its presence in the New York metropolitan area with the launch of its newest facility, NY3. The purpose-built data center, located in Secaucus, New Jersey, adds more than 138,000 square feet to CoreSite's regional portfolio and is positioned directly adjacent to the company's existing NY2 site. Together, NY2 and NY3 create one of the most interconnected and scalable data center campuses on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard.

The addition of NY3 brings CoreSite's total New York footprint to more than 442,000 square feet, including the company's NY1 location at 32 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, alongside NY2 and the newly opened facility [...]
Equinix Unveils Distributed AI for Next-Gen Intelligent Systems - 📅 - Equinix has introduced a new global initiative aimed at redefining how enterprises deploy and scale artificial intelligence (AI). At its first AI Summit, the company unveiled what it calls Distributed AI infrastructure, designed to support the next generation of intelligent systems, including the emerging class of agentic AI models capable of reasoning and acting autonomously.

The announcement signals a strategic bet by Equinix that enterprises will increasingly require infrastructure built not around static, centralized systems, but rather highly distributed networks that can handle training, inference, and data sovereignty requirements simultaneously. By leveraging its footprint of more [...]
Cato Networks and GCX Partner to Launch Managed SASE Platform - 📅 - Cato Networks and GCX have announced a collaboration to deliver a managed secure access service edge (SASE) platform designed to simplify networking and security for global enterprises. The service integrates Cato's SASE Cloud architecture with GCX's global network underlay, providing businesses with the ability to manage both security and connectivity functions through a single unified interface.

The joint platform aims to address rising demand for performance, availability, and scalable security, particularly in industries such as finance, manufacturing, and hospitality.

By consolidating network and security tools, the managed service seeks to reduce complexity, strengthen resilience, [...]
RETN Expands in Bologna with First PoP at Lepida’s BOIX Data Center - 📅 - RETN has expanded its European footprint with the launch of a new Point of Presence (PoP) in Bologna, establishing a direct link to global connectivity from the BOIX edge data center operated by Lepida S.c.p.A. The move brings international reach to one of Italy's most dynamic digital regions, where demand for resilient and diversified network infrastructure is accelerating.

Lepida, which manages the Emilia-Romagna region's public digital infrastructure, operates BOIX as a strategic hub for regional connectivity. RETN's decision to establish its first PoP in Bologna is part of a broader plan to expand into markets where local operators dominate and where international carriers remain [...]
Telin Chooses Nokia to Expand Data Center Links in Singapore - 📅 - Telin, the Singapore-based subsidiary of Telekomunikasi Indonesia International, has chosen Nokia to modernize and expand its data center interconnect network across Singapore. The move underscores the growing importance of low-latency, high-capacity connectivity in a city-state that serves as one of the world's major digital hubs.

The deployment will rely on Nokia's optical transport technology, specifically its 1830 GX compact modular platform combined with an open optical line system. This setup leverages pluggable coherent optics to provide scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient connections between strategically located data centers. The resulting infrastructure aims to deliver [...]
Cisco Unveils Sovereign Critical Infrastructure Portfolio for Europe - 📅 - Cisco has announced a new portfolio designed to address growing European concerns over data sovereignty, compliance, and digital autonomy. The company's Sovereign Critical Infrastructure offering, unveiled this week, is aimed squarely at governments, banks, healthcare providers, and other organizations operating in highly regulated industries where local control and operational resilience are paramount.

The portfolio allows customers to deploy Cisco technologies in fully air-gapped, on-premises environments under their own supervision, without the risk of remote disablement or external dependency. It covers Cisco's core product lines - routing, switching, and wireless - while also [...]
Cohere Extends Round to $7B Valuation, Deepens AMD Partnership - 📅 - Cohere, the Toronto-based enterprise artificial intelligence developer, has expanded its most recent funding round and announced a strategic partnership that highlights the shifting dynamics in the AI infrastructure market. The company revealed that it has raised an additional $100 million, extending an oversubscribed $500 million round closed in August, and bringing its valuation to $7 billion.

New investors include the Business Development Bank of Canada and Nexxus Capital Management, which is notable for its presence in Singapore.

The financing underscores continued appetite for enterprise-focused AI providers, even as industry valuations soar to unprecedented levels. Cohere's [...]
Bitdefender Launches Ultimate Small Business Security in UK - 📅 - Since most small firms have fewer security resources and the hybrid work-from-home model is here to stay, they are at greater danger. Almost 25% of 7,000 consumers globally who participated in the poll said they had encountered a security incident in the previous 12 months. Sadly, over three-quarters used their cellphones to conduct critical and business transactions, and almost half of them did not use any mobile security software, leaving companies vulnerable to attacks.

Bitdefender Ultimate Small Business Security is an easy-to-deploy and administer turnkey solution for threat prevention, digital identity protection, and privacy protection. Without the need for technical expertise or [...]
Cloudflare Blocks Record 22.2 Tbps DDoS Attack, Largest to Date - 📅 - Cloudflare has intercepted a new record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that briefly peaked at 22.2 terabits per second (Tbps) and 10.6 billion packets per second (Bpps), highlighting the escalating scale and sophistication of volumetric cyberattacks targeting global infrastructure.

The incident occurred only weeks after Cloudflare announced it had mitigated an 11.5 Tbps attack, then considered the largest publicly reported. Just months earlier, the company had reported neutralizing a 7.3 Tbps event. The rapid succession of increasingly powerful attacks underscores a trend of record-setting volumes emerging within short intervals, raising concerns among enterprises [...]
SAP, AWS Partner on €7.8B European Sovereign Cloud Expansion - 📅 - SAP and Amazon Web Services have unveiled an expanded partnership that will see SAP's Sovereign Cloud capabilities deployed on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a project backed by a projected €7.8 billion investment from Amazon. The collaboration is being positioned as a milestone in cloud services for Europe, blending SAP's enterprise expertise and sovereignty-focused technologies with AWS's infrastructure scale and operational maturity.

The initiative builds on the companies' longstanding alliance and SAP's strategy to integrate artificial intelligence and digital sovereignty into its offerings. SAP Sovereign Cloud capabilities are designed to meet the rigorous requirements of [...]