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Apr, 2025 : IDC Study: European Security Spend to Rise 11.8% in 2025
📅 - European organizations are set to increase their investment in cybersecurity significantly in 2025, with projected annual growth of 11.8% according to IDCs latest Worldwide Security Spending Guide. This surge in spending reflects a broader trend across the region, driven by a complex blend of geopolitical tensions, escalating cyber threats, and increasingly stringent regulatory requirements.
IDC forecasts that by the end of the 20232028 period, cybersecurity spending in Europe will approach $97 billion, underlining the growing strategic importance of cybersecurity in business operations.
Among European countries, the Czech Republic and Hungary are expected to experience the highest [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
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📅 - Digital Realty Lands in Crete, Powering Meds Digital Future - Digital Realty, a global supplier of colocation, interconnection, and cloud-and carrier-neutral data center solutions, announced the inauguration of its first data center on Crete, near Heraklion. By strengthening infrastructure and communication across key markets, this strategic investment would further solidify the Mediterraneans position as a vital center for global digital connectivity.
By strategically connecting Europe with Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa through a dense network of highly linked subsea cables, Digital Realty's new data center, HER1, the first carrier neutral facility on Crete, places the business in a unique position as the sole global data center provider [...]
📅 - AMS-IX Expands Cross-IX Service to Boost European Peering - A major development in European Internet infrastructure is taking shape as AMS-IX, one of the worlds largest Internet Exchanges, expands its Cross-IX service to facilitate easier and more efficient network interconnection across the continent. The Cross-IX initiative, developed through strategic collaboration with MIX in Milan and Netnod IX in Stockholm, now enables AMS-IX members and customers to peer with hundreds of networks across multiple European hubs via a single connection.
With the latest phase of Cross-IX now live, AMS-IX users can route outbound traffic from Amsterdam directly to MIX and Netnod, enhancing network reach and efficiency in both the Italian and Nordic markets. The [...]
📅 - Gemini AI Now Runs On-Prem with Google Distributed Cloud - Google has announced a major expansion of its AI portfolio by making its powerful Gemini models available throughGoogle Distributed Cloud (GDC), offering enterprise customers access to next-generation generative AI directly within their on-premises infrastructure. The move is intended to close the gap for organizations in regulated sectors or with strict data sovereignty requirements.
It will allow organizations to adopt cutting-edge AI capabilities without moving sensitive data offsite. A public preview of Gemini on GDC is expected to launch in Q3 2025.
To support this rollout, Google is partnering with NVIDIA to deploy Gemini models on the latest NVIDIA Blackwell systems, which can be [...]
📅 - New Google Cloud C4D and H4D VMs Powered by 5th Gen EPYC Chips - Google Cloud has unveiled its latest generation of virtual machines (VMs), the C4D and H4D instances, powered by fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors. The announcement highlights the continued collaboration between Google Cloud and AMD to deliver high-performance, efficient compute solutions for modern cloud workloads, including AI, data analytics, HPC, and general-purpose applications.
The C4D virtual machines are designed to handle a wide range of compute-intensive tasks, offering significant improvements in performance per virtual CPU (vCPU) compared to previous generations. According to internal testing conducted by Google Cloud, the C4D instances powered by AMDs Zen 5 architecture [...]
📅 - DE-CIX Sets 25 Tbit/s Traffic Record across Global IX Network - DE-CIX, one of the worlds largest operators ofInternet Exchanges (IXs), has set a new benchmark for global data throughput. On April 8 at 15:10 Eastern (19:10 UTC), the company recorded a historic peak in peering traffic, reaching 25 terabits per second (Tbit/s) across its global IX infrastructure.
The achievement marks a 130% increase in traffic volume since 2020, highlighting the rapid growth in global internet usage and the rising demand for high-capacity digital infrastructure.
To put the scale of this throughput in perspective, 25 Tbit/s is the equivalent of streaming approximately 14 million TikTok videos at the same time. DE-CIX, which first began operations in Frankfurt in 1995, [...]