📅 - Colt Technology Services is drawing a clear picture of what it believes will dominate CIO agendas in 2026: AI that finally has to prove its value, networks redesigned for an "Inference Era," and security strategies that assume a quantum-capable adversary is coming sooner than many boards expect.
Colt's message is that CIOs are heading into another year of tension between ambition and constraint. On one side are large-scale transformation programs, many of them centered on AI and data, that boards see as essential to competitiveness. On the other are aggressive cost-reduction efforts, talent shortages, and a tightening web of regulation around AI, cybersecurity, and data. Colt argues, [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
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📅 - Lumen Brings Black Lotus Threat Intel to AWS Network Firewall - The move reflects a broader shift in cloud security strategy: rather than focusing solely on detecting threats at the point of intrusion, providers are working to block malicious infrastructure earlier in the kill chain. Lumen positions itself uniquely in this space by leveraging visibility from its global IP backbone, which carries a significant portion of global internet traffic. That vantage point is at the core of the new offering.
Lumen Defender Managed Rules is delivered as a managed rule group for AWS Network Firewall.
Customers subscribe through AWS Marketplace and can then attach the rule group to their existing AWS Network Firewall deployments directly from the AWS console. [...]
📅 - Vertiv and Caterpillar Partner on Power for AI Data Centers - Vertiv and Caterpillar are joining forces to target one of the toughest constraints in today's AI data center build-out: how to deliver enough reliable power and cooling, fast, without blowing up energy costs or project timelines. The two companies have signed a strategic collaboration focused on integrated energy optimization solutions.
It brings together Vertiv's critical power and cooling portfolio with Caterpillar's and its subsidiary Solar Turbines' capabilities in on-site power generation and combined cooling, heat and power (CCHP).
The partnership is aimed squarely at hyperscale and AI-intensive facilities that are struggling with grid constraints, high-density racks, and [...]
📅 - Arqit and Sparkle Demo Quantum-Safe Encryption on Optical Links - Arqit Quantum and Sparkle are claiming an important milestone in the race to secure networks against future quantum attacks, demonstrating that quantum-resistant encryption can be delivered "at the speed of light" over a production-grade optical network.
The two companies have completed a proof of concept in Athens on Sparkle's metropolitan optical ring, showing that Arqit's quantum-safe encryption can be embedded directly into the optical transport layer. Rather than adding security at higher layers or through external appliances, the approach integrates encryption into the physical (L1) layer of Sparkle's network, securing multi-100G optical links without adding noticeable latency or [...]
📅 - D-Wave Launches U.S. Government Unit for Quantum Adoption - D-Wave Quantum is sharpening its focus on Washington. The quantum computing systems, software, and services provider has created a dedicated U.S. government business unit aimed at accelerating adoption of its technology across defense and federal agencies, underscoring how quickly quantum is moving from research topic to procurement category.
The new unit will be led by Jack Sears Jr., a veteran of the government and public sector technology market. Sears joins D-Wave's executive team as vice president of U.S. government solutions, with a remit that spans go-to-market, application development, product strategy, and customer support for government buyers. His mandate is to align D-Wave's [...]
📅 - Switzerland Tightens Public-Sector Use of US and Global Cloud - Switzerland is drawing a hard line on how public-sector bodies can use global cloud platforms, tightening the rules in ways that could reshape government IT strategies and create new opportunities for European and sovereign cloud providers.
In new guidance, the Conference of Swiss Data Protection Officers, known as Privatim, has effectively barred authorities from using international cloud and SaaS services such as those offered by major U.S. hyperscalers - Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, and others - as turnkey solutions for workloads involving especially sensitive or legally confidential data. Instead, public entities will either need to return to more tightly controlled on-premises [...]
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