Vertiv Acquires Custom Rack Solutions Manufacturer for $200M
📅 - Vertiv, a multinational supplier of vital digital infrastructure, has reached a $200 million deal to buy the Great Lakes Data Racks & Cabinets family of businesses. Great Lakes designs and manufactures the highly customized data rack enclosures and other integrated infrastructure solutions that are the foundation of contemporary data centers.
Vertiv's ability to provide pre-engineered, future AI-ready rack solutions tailored for the enterprise, edge, colocation, and hyperscale AI computing sectors is anticipated to be improved by the purchase.
Great Lakes was founded in 1985 and has its headquarters in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It runs assembly and production plants [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Firm Performance Partners with BigScoots for Legal Website Hosting - This collaboration gives Firm Performance clients a recommended vendor option to host their legal websites, via BigScoots Managed Hosting and Performance Services, for unparalleled security, reliability, and scalability.
In today's digital landscape, a law firm's website is its most critical asset, serving as the cornerstone of its online presence. This partnership directly addresses the unique needs of Firm Performance clients, where data security, consistent uptime, and the ability to handle varying traffic loads are paramount.
"We are thrilled to partner with BigScoots to recommend their exceptional managed hosting solutions to our clients," said Peter Webb, Founder and CEO of Firm [...]
📅 - Datadog Expands Observability in Australia and New Zealand with AWS - Cloud monitoring and security platform Datadog has launched its full suite of products and services in the Asia-Pacific (Sydney) region of Amazon Web Services (AWS), establishing local data storage capabilities for customers in Australia and New Zealand. The move is designed to help organizations meet increasingly stringent data residency, privacy, and security requirements in the region, particularly in highly regulated sectors such as finance, government, healthcare, and education.
The expansion enables Datadog's clients and partners to store and process data within the region, ensuring compliance with local regulations while improving performance through lower latency and faster [...]
📅 - VMware Partner Program Ends, Shifts to Invite-Only Model - Broadcom's latest changes to the VMware partner ecosystem are prompting significant concerns across the cloud services landscape, particularly among small and mid-sized cloud service providers (CSPs) and their customers. This week, VMware CSP partners were notified that Broadcom will launch a new invite-only partner program on November 1, effectively cutting out a considerable number of existing partners.
CSPs that did not receive an invitation by today will be formally removed from the program and issued non-renewal notices. These providers may continue operating under current agreements until October 31, after which they will be excluded from VMware's official channel. The changes are [...]
📅 - EU Issues AI Act Compliance Guidelines - In a significant step toward enforcing the European Union's sweeping Artificial Intelligence Act, the European Commission on Friday published a set of recommendations aimed at general-purpose AI developers. The guidance is designed to help companies understand and comply with the new law's obligations - particularly those that apply to models identified as carrying systemic risks.
The move is widely seen as a response to growing concern from technology firms about the potential regulatory burdens of the AI Act and the risk of substantial financial penalties for noncompliance.
The AI Act, adopted in 2024 and entering into effect for foundation and high-risk models on August 2, 2025, [...]
📅 - OutSystems Unveils Agent Workbench for Scalable Enterprise AI - OutSystems, a leading low-code development platform enhanced by AI, has launched an Early Access Program for its new Agent Workbench solution, aiming to simplify the creation, deployment, and management of enterprise-grade intelligent agents. The introduction comes at a time when many businesses are experimenting with AI but struggling to achieve meaningful returns due to fragmented tools, prolonged development cycles, and siloed data systems.
Designed for enterprises looking to operationalize AI at scale, Agent Workbench offers a unified platform to build agentic systems capable of reasoning, planning, and acting across departments, business processes, and diverse data environments. [...]
📅 - LINX, INDATEL Partner to Expand Rural U.S. Broadband Peering Access - The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has announced a strategic partnership with INDATEL, a nationwide U.S. network composed of over 900 regional and rural broadband providers. The agreement is aimed at expanding access to affordable, high-performance peering and interconnection services across underserved areas in the United States, marking a significant move in LINX's broader mission to democratize internet connectivity.
The collaboration centers around LINX NoVA, the organization's neutral Internet Exchange Point (IXP) based in Northern Virginia - often referred to as the data center capital of the U.S. Through five major data center access points in the region, LINX NoVA allows networks [...]
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