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 [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - 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 [...]
📅 - D-Wave Signs €10M Quantum Computer Deal in Italy - 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 [...]
📅 - 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 [...]
📅 - 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 [...]
📅 - Oracle Debuts OCI Zettascale10 Cloud AI Supercomputer - Oracle has unveiled Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Zettascale10, a new generation of AI supercomputing infrastructure that it calls the largest AI supercomputer in the cloud. The system connects hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs across multiple Oracle data centers to create multi-gigawatt superclusters capable of delivering up to 16 zettaFLOPS of peak performance.
OCI Zettascale10 forms the computational foundation of Stargate, the flagship supercluster built in collaboration with OpenAI in Abilene, Texas. The system represents a major leap in cloud-based AI performance, fusing Oracle's next-generation Acceleron RoCE networking architecture with NVIDIA's full-stack AI [...]
📅 - Netherlands Invests €200 Million in Groningen AI Innovation Factory - The Netherlands has announced a €200 million investment to establish a national artificial intelligence (AI) factory in the city of Groningen, marking one of the country's most significant steps toward technological sovereignty and digital resilience. The initiative aims to reduce Europe's dependence on AI innovations from the United States and China by building local expertise, infrastructure, and computing capacity capable of powering next-generation industries.
The AI factory will serve as a high-performance innovation hub where researchers, startups, and public institutions collaborate to develop and deploy advanced AI solutions. Equipped with a supercomputer providing exceptional [...]
