📅 - D-Wave Quantum is strengthening its European footprint with a €10 million agreement to deploy its most advanced quantum annealing system, the Advantage2, in Italy. The deal, signed with Swiss Quantum Technology SA (SQT), marks a pivotal moment for Europe's quantum computing ambitions, linking commercial innovation with the continent's strategic goal of achieving technological sovereignty in next-generation computing.
Announced at the ComoLake 2025 Digital Innovation Forum, the collaboration will see D-Wave's Advantage2 system installed under Italy's Q-Alliance program, a national initiative aimed at fostering a competitive European quantum ecosystem. Once operational, the system will be [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - HPE and Ericsson Launch Joint Lab to Advance Multi-Vendor 5G - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Ericsson are taking a major step toward solving one of the telecom industry's toughest technical challenges - ensuring seamless performance across multi-vendor 5G infrastructure. The two companies announced the creation of a joint validation lab designed to help telecommunications service providers deploy and manage complex, cloud-native, AI-enabled 5G networks with greater speed, security, and interoperability.
The initiative marks an important milestone in the evolving relationship between traditional IT infrastructure and telecommunications networks. As global operators rush to modernize core systems to handle data-heavy, latency-sensitive [...]
📅 - LumaDock Launches Amsterdam VPS zone in Europe’s Most Exclusive DC Market - Amsterdam, Netherlands. LumaDock has officially launched its Amsterdam VPS zone, expanding its European hosting network into one of the continent's most competitive and capacity-constrained regions. The new availability zone is live inside a Tier III-certified facility in the city's Westpoort district, giving customers direct access to the AMS-IX internet exchange and some of the fastest connectivity in Europe. Amsterdam now joins London, Frankfurt, Bucharest and Paris as part of LumaDock's growing infrastructure footprint, with additional zones already in development. Entering One of Europe's Most Exclusive Hosting Markets Amsterdam is not an easy market to enter. The municipality has [...]
📅 - Vantage Invests €350M in New Sustainable Milan Data Center - Vantage Data Centers is deepening its commitment to Italy's digital infrastructure with the announcement of a second hyperscale campus in Milan, reinforcing the city's growing position as a European technology and connectivity hub. The global data center operator confirmed an investment exceeding €350 million (approximately $407 million USD) for the new MXP2 facility.
It's a move by Vantage designed to meet the surging demand for scalable, high-performance computing power across cloud, AI and enterprise applications.
Situated in Castelletto, roughly 15 kilometers from central Milan, the new MXP2 campus will consist of two state-of-the-art data centers spanning about 10,000 square meters [...]
📅 - Oracle Launches AmpereOne M A4 Instances for AI Efficiency - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is extending its partnership with chipmaker Ampere by announcing the upcoming launch of its A4 compute instances, powered by AmpereOne M, the latest generation of Arm-based processors. The move positions Oracle as the first major cloud provider to deliver general availability of AmpereOne M-based instances, marking another milestone in the evolution of energy-efficient, high-performance computing for the cloud and AI workloads.
The A4 instances are scheduled for general availability in November 2025, starting in Oracle's Ashburn (IAD), Phoenix (PHX), Frankfurt (FRA), and London (LHR) regions, with further global rollouts to follow. OCI's new offering [...]
📅 - Connectbase Hits 400M Quotes Milestone in Connectivity Commerce - Digital platform for connectivity commerce, Connectbase, has reached a major milestone by processing over 400 million quotes through its Connected World Platform. The achievement underscores the company's growing role as the de facto operating system for digital connectivity transactions, as telecom and infrastructure providers move rapidly toward automation and data-driven decision-making across global networks.
This milestone highlights an accelerating trend in the telecom industry: the shift from traditional, manual quoting and procurement processes to fully digitized, real-time connectivity commerce.
Connectbase's platform serves as a unified digital marketplace where network [...]
📅 - SHARON AI Advances Sovereign AI in Australia with VAST Data - Australia's SHARON AI has announced a strategic partnership with VAST Data, the company behind the VAST AI Operating System, in a move designed to strengthen sovereign AI infrastructure and bring scalable inference capabilities to enterprise and government sectors. The collaboration aims to accelerate the country's progress toward advanced, locally hosted AI systems capable of handling reasoning, retrieval, and real-time analytics at massive scale.
At the center of the partnership is VAST's InsightEngine, an end-to-end ingestion, embedding, indexing, and retrieval platform built to handle both structured and unstructured data in real time.
The system enables organizations to continuously [...]
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