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Enterprise Network Buyers Face Barriers to Switching Vendors - 📅 - Of the enterprise IT decision makers surveyed for Allied Telesis, 67% said they would consider changing network vendors if the move were easy and low risk. The catch is that 43% already feel mostly or completely tied to their main supplier. The gap helps explain why buyer dissatisfaction can surface at renewal without producing a new contract.
The survey covered 461 decision makers at organizations with at least 100 employees. Its two headline figures describe the sample as a whole, leaving open how many of the buyers who feel tied down are also ready to consider leaving. Price still gives those buyers a reason to look. Rising costs or unfavorable pricing and better performance or [...]
The survey covered 461 decision makers at organizations with at least 100 employees. Its two headline figures describe the sample as a whole, leaving open how many of the buyers who feel tied down are also ready to consider leaving. Price still gives those buyers a reason to look. Rising costs or unfavorable pricing and better performance or [...]
IONOS Adds 370,000 Customers as It Prepares to Cut Costs - 📅 - IONOS added about 370,000 customers in the first nine months of 2026 and lifted revenue 7.6% to €1.05 billion as the hosting provider prepares to cut costs and redirect some of the savings into cloud expansion and artificial intelligence products. The company ended September with 7 million customers and kept its annual adjusted earnings forecast in place.That is a much bigger intake than the 210,000 customers IONOS added in the same period last year. For a hosting provider, those relationships offer a way to sell additional services without having to acquire a customer from scratch. A small business that buys a domain or hosts a website, though, may have little reason to move an [...]
Vertiv Introduces Outdoor UPS for AI Data Centers - 📅 - Vertiv introduced an outdoor power protection system Thursday for AI data centers that need to fit more computing equipment into their buildings and manage sharp swings in electricity demand. The company says the system could help operators connect to the grid sooner, a claim whose value will depend on what utilities accept. Shipments are expected in mid-2027.
The PowerNexus MV UPS puts an uninterruptible power supply and equipment for smoothing changes in demand on a single outdoor skid near the utility connection. Moving that equipment out of the building can give a colocation operator more room for racks it can lease. How much of that space becomes sellable depends on whether the site [...]
The PowerNexus MV UPS puts an uninterruptible power supply and equipment for smoothing changes in demand on a single outdoor skid near the utility connection. Moving that equipment out of the building can give a colocation operator more room for racks it can lease. How much of that space becomes sellable depends on whether the site [...]
Supermicro Adds Shared Flash Cache for AI Inference Clusters - 📅 - Supermicro, IBM, and NVIDIA have launched a shared flash storage system that lets GPU servers reuse work from earlier AI requests across a cluster. The companies report up to 56 times faster time to first token in a test with a 130,000 token prompt and a 120 billion parameter model, compared with running without a KV cache.For a GPU cloud operator, the buying question is how much accelerator time a storage rack can save. Inference starts with the model processing its input before it produces an answer. A key value cache holds intermediate results from that first step. If a later request begins with the same sequence of tokens, the server can reuse that work and process the rest of the [...]
ALSO and Intermedia Form U.S. Cloud Marketplace for MSPs - 📅 - ALSO is taking a majority stake in a U.S. cloud distribution venture with Intermedia, pairing its marketplace with the California company's Microsoft cloud business and customer relationships. The venture gives ALSO a larger foothold in the United States. For resellers, the practical question is how much of their existing Microsoft cloud business they can run through it.ALSO started its own U.S. cloud operations in February 2025. The joint venture gives it an established sales operation and customer base to build on. ALSO will own 51% and contribute its cloud marketplace, while Intermedia will own 49% and contribute its Microsoft cloud business and associated sales resources. Intermedia [...]
89% of UK IT Respondents Report Higher Data Center Costs - 📅 - Data center infrastructure costs rose for 89% of UK IT decision makers surveyed for 11:11 Systems, with an average increase of 14% over the past year. The findings put disaster recovery in the same budget discussion as hardware and virtualization, as businesses weigh how much they can save by switching platforms without making systems harder to restore.The average gives procurement teams a starting point. It could be well below what some face at renewal. Fifteen percent of UK respondents reported increases above 25%, while 37% identified rising storage or memory costs as a concern for data center strategy. The UK results cover 163 people involved in infrastructure, security, backup, or [...]
DE-CIX Expects AI Inference to Spread Across Clouds and Sites - 📅 - Internet exchange operator DE-CIX expects more companies to run AI inference across regional data centers, cloud platforms, and enterprise sites in 2027, shifting some performance problems from servers to networks. Its annual outlook also raises a procurement question for businesses deploying AI agents across borders. Can their providers show where traffic actually goes and who authorizes access?Moving a model closer to its users can shorten one part of a request. The application may still need to retrieve documents from another cloud, check permissions against a central directory, or call a service in a different region. Those round trips can eat into the time saved by running the model [...]
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Resigns, Putting GPU Cloud Deals in Focus - 📅 - Jensen Huang resigned as NVIDIA's chief executive and left its board Thursday, with Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress taking over on an interim basis. The succession puts a question before GPU cloud operators planning their next deployments. Will NVIDIA keep supplying chips, taking equity stakes, and buying spare computing capacity on the terms it offered under Huang?
CoreWeave shows how much can sit behind a GPU purchase. NVIDIA supplies its chips and invested $2 billion in the cloud provider in January. Under a separate agreement initially valued at $6.3 billion, NVIDIA is also obligated to buy qualifying capacity CoreWeave has been unable to sell through April 2032. Delivery and [...]
CoreWeave shows how much can sit behind a GPU purchase. NVIDIA supplies its chips and invested $2 billion in the cloud provider in January. Under a separate agreement initially valued at $6.3 billion, NVIDIA is also obligated to buy qualifying capacity CoreWeave has been unable to sell through April 2032. Delivery and [...]
Proofpoint Finds Cloud Compromise at 64% of Targeted European Organizations - 📅 - Proofpoint found evidence of compromise at 64% of the European organizations it observed being targeted by focused attacks on cloud accounts, according to research released Thursday. The findings raise a question for providers that manage email and identity for business customers. Who can spot a compromised account and cut off access before the incident spreads any further?
A managed service provider can close a ticket on a malicious email while the customer still has a live incident. The message may be gone by the time someone notices a suspicious sign-in. If an attacker has gained access to a session, the investigation moves to a different set of records and, in some businesses, a [...]
A managed service provider can close a ticket on a malicious email while the customer still has a live incident. The message may be gone by the time someone notices a suspicious sign-in. If an attacker has gained access to a session, the investigation moves to a different set of records and, in some businesses, a [...]
Chinese AI Firms Seek Overseas GPU Capacity as U.S. Weighs Cloud Curbs - 📅 - Chinese artificial intelligence companies are seeking to reserve computing capacity on NVIDIA chips in overseas data centers, Reuters reported Thursday, as buyers weigh whether the controversy surrounding Chief Executive Jensen Huang will accelerate U.S. restrictions on remote access. Some companies have already approached operators, putting cloud contracts in focus alongside the existing controls on physical chip exports.
A rack of GPUs can stay in a data center in Southeast Asia while a customer in China runs a training job on it. That arrangement puts the cloud operator in a different position from a distributor shipping servers across a border. If Washington extends controls to remote [...]
A rack of GPUs can stay in a data center in Southeast Asia while a customer in China runs a training job on it. That arrangement puts the cloud operator in a different position from a distributor shipping servers across a border. If Washington extends controls to remote [...]
