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Netskope Revenue Rises 29% as AI Security and SASE Expand - 📅 - Netskope's second-quarter revenue rose 29% to $220.5 million, while annual recurring revenue reached $899 million as enterprises continued spending on SASE, AI security and cloud-delivered controls. The stronger quarter follows two June launches aimed at widening that infrastructure role – a new MSP program for faster service delivery and an AI Command Center for discovering and governing enterprise AI activity.

The financial growth is one part of a broader shift in how Netskope is positioning itself. Its platform increasingly sits between users, applications, data, cloud services and AI systems, inspecting traffic and enforcing policy across distributed environments rather than [...]
Europol Botnet Takedown Exposes IaaS Abuse Response Challenge - 📅 - Europol has backed an international operation that disrupted Sality, a peer-to-peer botnet linked to more than 11 million unique IP addresses after roughly two decades of activity. The takedown used sinkholing to sever infected systems from criminal control, while putting fresh pressure on hosting and IaaS providers to confront abuse moving through increasingly distributed infrastructure at scale.

The action, carried out on August 31 and led by US authorities with participation from Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, targeted one of the more persistent botnet infrastructures still operating. CrowdStrike and the Shadowserver Foundation provided technical assistance. At its height, Sality gave [...]
AI Data Center Spending Could Reach $31.6 Trillion by 2050, Says PwC - 📅 - PwC expects global data center capital spending tied to AI infrastructure to reach $31.6 trillion through 2050, with annual investment rising from about $800 billion in 2026 to $1.8 trillion. The money will not flow evenly. Power availability, chip access, sovereignty rules, connectivity, security, and local permitting are increasingly deciding where capacity actually gets built at scale.

For data center operators, the headline number is less important than the composition of the spending. The infrastructure cycle is expected to become increasingly dominated by servers, accelerators, networking equipment, and other ICT hardware that requires replacement every few years. Buildings last. [...]
Console Acquisition Brings AI Agents Deeper Into Palo Alto Networks Security Stack - 📅 - Palo Alto Networks has acquired Console, adding an AI-native agent platform to Cortex as the cybersecurity vendor tries to move security operations beyond dashboards and ticket queues toward automated investigation and remediation. The deal lands alongside sharply higher quarterly revenue and recurring security sales, giving Palo Alto Networks financial room to deepen its platform strategy through acquisitions.

Console is meant to let users interact with operational data using natural language and construct agents that can investigate signals, prioritize work, and take actions across enterprise systems. Palo Alto Networks plans to bring those capabilities into Cortex, where automation is [...]
AI Infrastructure Scales Faster Than UK Firms Can Monitor It - 📅 - UK enterprises are scaling artificial intelligence infrastructure faster than they can reliably explain why it fails, exposing a widening gap between executive confidence and engineering reality. New survey data published by Virtana shows 53% lack full observability across AI environments, while infrastructure teams report far weaker diagnostic capabilities than senior leaders believe they possess during production incidents today at scale.

The figures matter because British companies are no longer treating artificial intelligence as a laboratory project. Fifty nine percent of surveyed enterprises say they are scaling AI across teams, while another 17% are running early production [...]
Diraq Brings Silicon Quantum System Into Equinix Data Center - 📅 - Diraq is taking its silicon spin quantum hardware out of the lab and into commercial data center space, with an eight qubit system due to be installed at an Equinix facility in Sydney in October. The immediate computing value is modest. The more consequential test is whether quantum hardware can operate inside infrastructure enterprises already understand and buy.
For infrastructure buyers, the important number is arguably not eight qubits. It is less than 20 kilowatts. Diraq says the complete system, including cryogenic cooling and control electronics, can sit inside an existing Equinix facility beside conventional servers with minimal integration work. That begins to address a persistent [...]
AI Server Demand Drives Dell Technologies Backlog to $95B - 📅 - Dell Technologies reported record fiscal second-quarter revenue of $47 billion as AI server demand accelerated, with AI-optimized server sales reaching $16.4 billion and backlog swelling to $95 billion. Traditional servers and networking also jumped 122 percent, underscoring how artificial intelligence spending is pulling the rest of the data center hardware stack higher with it for enterprise buyers.

The scale is starting to reshape Dell Technologies itself. Infrastructure Solutions Group revenue reached a record $31.8 billion, up 89 percent year over year, while operating income rose 225 percent to $4.8 billion. AI-optimized server revenue doubled from a year earlier, and Dell [...]
Amazon Web Services Launches Graviton5 Memory-Optimized EC2s - 📅 - AWS (Amazon Web Services) has made its memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances generally available, introducing AWS Graviton5 processors to database, cache, analytics, and container workloads. The new instances promise up to 25 percent higher compute performance per vCPU, faster memory, larger caches, and substantially more network and storage bandwidth than their AWS Graviton4-based predecessors for customers.

For infrastructure buyers, the launch is another reminder that Amazon Web Services is steadily turning processor design into a cloud economics weapon. The R9g family is aimed at memory-heavy applications such as databases, in-memory caching, real-time analytics, Linux [...]
Compu Dynamics Modular Unveils Scalable AI Data Center Platform - 📅 - Compu Dynamics Modular has launched a U.S.-built modular infrastructure portfolio aimed at AI and HPC deployments ranging from 750 kilowatts to more than 50 megawatts. The company is packaging power, cooling, white space, and electrical systems into repeatable factory-built blocks, targeting operators that need dense GPU capacity faster than conventional data center construction can typically deliver.

The portfolio lands in a market where rack density is no longer a secondary engineering detail. Compu Dynamics Modular says next-generation GPU systems are driving densities toward hundreds of kilowatts per rack, forcing operators to rethink conventional power distribution and cooling [...]
Aranya Raises $11M to Automate Bare Metal GPU Infrastructure - 📅 - Aranya has raised $11 million to automate the conversion of bare-metal GPU infrastructure into production-ready AI clusters, claiming deployments in under 48 hours. The startup is targeting inference providers, AI companies, neoclouds, and data centers that own expensive hardware but still need networking, orchestration, observability, and operational tooling before those servers can reliably run workloads at scale.

The financing consists of a $9 million seed round led by First Round Capital and an earlier $2 million pre-seed round led by Asylum Ventures. Box Group, Vermilion Cliffs, Founder Collective, Parable VC, Uncommon Ventures, and other investors participated. Aranya says it is [...]