Cohere Extends Round to $7B Valuation, Deepens AMD Partnership
📅 - Cohere, the Toronto-based enterprise artificial intelligence developer, has expanded its most recent funding round and announced a strategic partnership that highlights the shifting dynamics in the AI infrastructure market. The company revealed that it has raised an additional $100 million, extending an oversubscribed $500 million round closed in August, and bringing its valuation to $7 billion.
New investors include the Business Development Bank of Canada and Nexxus Capital Management, which is notable for its presence in Singapore.
The financing underscores continued appetite for enterprise-focused AI providers, even as industry valuations soar to unprecedented levels. Cohere's [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Bitdefender Launches Ultimate Small Business Security in UK - Since most small firms have fewer security resources and the hybrid work-from-home model is here to stay, they are at greater danger. Almost 25% of 7,000 consumers globally who participated in the poll said they had encountered a security incident in the previous 12 months. Sadly, over three-quarters used their cellphones to conduct critical and business transactions, and almost half of them did not use any mobile security software, leaving companies vulnerable to attacks.
Bitdefender Ultimate Small Business Security is an easy-to-deploy and administer turnkey solution for threat prevention, digital identity protection, and privacy protection. Without the need for technical expertise or [...]
📅 - Cloudflare Blocks Record 22.2 Tbps DDoS Attack, Largest to Date - Cloudflare has intercepted a new record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that briefly peaked at 22.2 terabits per second (Tbps) and 10.6 billion packets per second (Bpps), highlighting the escalating scale and sophistication of volumetric cyberattacks targeting global infrastructure.
The incident occurred only weeks after Cloudflare announced it had mitigated an 11.5 Tbps attack, then considered the largest publicly reported. Just months earlier, the company had reported neutralizing a 7.3 Tbps event. The rapid succession of increasingly powerful attacks underscores a trend of record-setting volumes emerging within short intervals, raising concerns among enterprises [...]
📅 - SAP, AWS Partner on €7.8B European Sovereign Cloud Expansion - SAP and Amazon Web Services have unveiled an expanded partnership that will see SAP's Sovereign Cloud capabilities deployed on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a project backed by a projected €7.8 billion investment from Amazon. The collaboration is being positioned as a milestone in cloud services for Europe, blending SAP's enterprise expertise and sovereignty-focused technologies with AWS's infrastructure scale and operational maturity.
The initiative builds on the companies' longstanding alliance and SAP's strategy to integrate artificial intelligence and digital sovereignty into its offerings. SAP Sovereign Cloud capabilities are designed to meet the rigorous requirements of [...]
📅 - Cisco Unveils Sovereign Critical Infrastructure Portfolio for Europe - Cisco has announced a new portfolio designed to address growing European concerns over data sovereignty, compliance, and digital autonomy. The company's Sovereign Critical Infrastructure offering, unveiled this week, is aimed squarely at governments, banks, healthcare providers, and other organizations operating in highly regulated industries where local control and operational resilience are paramount.
The portfolio allows customers to deploy Cisco technologies in fully air-gapped, on-premises environments under their own supervision, without the risk of remote disablement or external dependency. It covers Cisco's core product lines - routing, switching, and wireless - while also [...]
📅 - Telin Chooses Nokia to Expand Data Center Links in Singapore - Telin, the Singapore-based subsidiary of Telekomunikasi Indonesia International, has chosen Nokia to modernize and expand its data center interconnect network across Singapore. The move underscores the growing importance of low-latency, high-capacity connectivity in a city-state that serves as one of the world's major digital hubs.
The deployment will rely on Nokia's optical transport technology, specifically its 1830 GX compact modular platform combined with an open optical line system. This setup leverages pluggable coherent optics to provide scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient connections between strategically located data centers. The resulting infrastructure aims to deliver [...]
📅 - RETN Expands in Bologna with First PoP at Lepida’s BOIX Data Center - RETN has expanded its European footprint with the launch of a new Point of Presence (PoP) in Bologna, establishing a direct link to global connectivity from the BOIX edge data center operated by Lepida S.c.p.A. The move brings international reach to one of Italy's most dynamic digital regions, where demand for resilient and diversified network infrastructure is accelerating.
Lepida, which manages the Emilia-Romagna region's public digital infrastructure, operates BOIX as a strategic hub for regional connectivity. RETN's decision to establish its first PoP in Bologna is part of a broader plan to expand into markets where local operators dominate and where international carriers remain [...]
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