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Global IT Spending to Grow 7.9% in 2025, Driven by AI Push
📅 - In the face of global economic and geopolitical uncertainty, worldwide IT spending is projected to grow by 7.9% in 2025, reaching $5.43 trillion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. This increase - driven largely by ongoing artificial intelligence initiatives - comes amid what Gartner analysts describe as a deliberate "uncertainty pause" in new investment across multiple sectors, including IT.
Despite the pause, IT budgets remain intact. Rather than slashing funding, enterprises are choosing to delay net-new investments as they navigate increasingly volatile global conditions. Gartner's analysis suggests that this caution is not rooted in shrinking resources, but rather in [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Scale Computing Integrates Bitdefender for Edge and Cloud Security - Scale Computing, a leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged infrastructure, has announced a strategic partnership with global cybersecurity firm Bitdefender to deliver an integrated security solution for edge and private cloud environments. The new joint offering embeds Bitdefender's GravityZone security platform into Scale Computing's SC//Hypercore infrastructure, enabling streamlined protection for distributed IT workloads with minimal complexity.
As organizations expand their operations across multiple sites and adopt hybrid infrastructure, the need for built-in security at the edge has intensified. Scale Computing is addressing this challenge head-on by integrating [...]
📅 - AtlasEdge Opens STR001 Data Center in Stuttgart, Germany - AtlasEdge, a provider of colocation and edge data center services across Europe, has officially launched its newest facility in the Stuttgart metropolitan area. The AtlasEdge STR001 data center, located in Böblingen, marks the completion of the first phase of a broader infrastructure initiative that will ultimately deliver 20 megawatts (MW) of power capacity and 10,000 square meters of state-of-the-art data center space.
This expansion reinforces the company's strategic focus on the DACH region - Germany, Austria, and Switzerland - where a combination of strong industrial demand, government-backed digital infrastructure investment, and increasing enterprise data needs are driving rapid [...]
📅 - Rigetti Achieves 99.5% Fidelity on 36-Qubit System, Plans 100+ Qubit Launch - Rigetti Computing has reached a key technical milestone in quantum performance, reporting a 99.5% median two-qubit gate fidelity on its new modular 36-qubit system. This achievement represents a significant advancement in the company's quantum roadmap, cutting its previous two-qubit gate error rate in half compared to its earlier 84-qubit Ankaa-3 system.
The milestone underscores Rigetti's ongoing push toward scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computing and strengthens its position among leading quantum hardware developers.
The 36-qubit system is built on Rigetti's proprietary modular chip architecture, which integrates four 9-qubit "chiplets" into a unified lattice. This approach allows [...]
📅 - Microsoft SharePoint Zero-Day Exploit Bypasses MFA, Patch Incomplete - A critical zero-day vulnerability targeting Microsoft SharePoint Server installations is currently being exploited globally, prompting urgent warnings from cybersecurity experts. Identified as CVE-2025-53770, the flaw allows remote attackers to bypass identity safeguards - including multi-factor authentication - and gain system-level access.
From there, attackers can deploy malware, access sensitive files, and propagate laterally across an organization's Windows domain. Despite Microsoft's emergency patch issued on July 20, researchers say the fix does not fully mitigate the threat.
The vulnerability affects on-premises installations of Microsoft SharePoint Server, rather than [...]
📅 - Cologix Secures $525M ABS to Expand AI-Ready Edge Data Centers - Cologix, a top provider of hyperscale edge data centers and network-neutral connectivity in North America, has concluded a $525 million USD asset-backed securitization (ABS) to fund its ongoing expansion into digital infrastructure. Cologix's COL4 data center in Columbus, Ohio, backs the secured notes, which have a set period of five years.
This deal is Cologix's fourth ABS issuance since 2021 and demonstrates the company's ongoing reliance on the asset-backed securities market to finance expansion. In order to meet the growing demand for inference AI and cloud workloads, the proceeds will be used to fund strategic investments throughout Cologix's ScalelogixTM and Digital Edge [...]
📅 - Activate Capital Invests in XNRGY to Boost Data Center Cooling - Activate Capital has announced a strategic investment in XNRGY Climate Systems, a North American leader in sustainable thermal management and liquid cooling technologies. This partnership marks a significant development in the effort to deliver advanced cooling solutions to data centers and other mission-critical infrastructure, particularly as demand for energy-efficient and high-performance systems accelerates.
The investment aligns with Activate's focus on scaling companies that contribute to the sustainable transformation of the global economy. With the increasing energy demands of AI-driven workloads and hyperscale data operations, cooling infrastructure has emerged as a critical [...]
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