📅 - Streaming security analytics provider Abstract Security now partners with cloud security firm Netskope to enable joint customers to detect threats directly within live security data streams, reducing reliance on traditional log indexing workflows. The collaboration targets organizations operating cloud-first and hybrid environments that struggle with growing security data volumes, rising storage costs, and delayed threat detection.
The integration focuses on Netskope One telemetry generated across security service edge (SSE) environments. By ingesting high-fidelity Netskope data directly into Abstract Security's streaming-first analytics pipeline, customers can analyze, enrich, and route [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Funding Concerns Mount Over Oracle’s AI Data Center Expansion - Investment bank TD Cowen has warned that Oracle may need to take drastic steps to address growing concerns around its ability to finance one of the largest data center expansion programs in the technology sector. According to a recent TD Cowen research note, Oracle could seek to ease funding pressure by laying off as many as 30,000 employees and potentially divesting its health technology unit Cerner.
The warning comes as Oracle pushes forward with a massive data center construction program tied to a reported $300 billion, five-year infrastructure commitment to OpenAI, alongside additional builds for Meta and NVIDIA.
TD Cowen estimates Oracle's total infrastructure obligations across [...]
📅 - D-Wave Advances Toward Broader Quantum Deployment - Quantum computing firm D-Wave Quantum enters 2026 with rising commercial traction, expanding infrastructure, and steady technology progress. New enterprise contracts, defense-sector collaborations, and geographic expansion indicate growing customer demand for practical quantum systems, positioning the company beyond experimental use toward broader real-world deployment.
At the technology level, D-Wave is extending the scope of its annealing-based quantum computing systems by strengthening integration with traditional computing approaches. Its hybrid solver platform now supports the direct insertion of machine learning models into quantum optimization workflows, allowing clients to [...]
📅 - Gartner: 35% of Countries Face Regional AI Lock-In by 2027 - A growing push for digital sovereignty is set to reshape the global artificial intelligence landscape, with Gartner predicting that by 2027, more than a third of countries will be locked into region-specific AI platforms.
According to the research firm, the share of nations effectively tied to localized AI ecosystems will rise sharply from just 5% today to 35% within the next three years, driven by geopolitical tensions, regulatory pressure, and national security concerns.
"Countries with digital sovereignty goals are increasing investment in domestic AI stacks as they look for alternatives to the closed U.S. model, including computing power, data centers, infrastructure and models [...]
📅 - Managed Hosting Firm 20i Debuts Embedded Hosting Assistant - UK-based managed hosting provider 20i has launched Twentie, a new embedded personal assistant designed to support everyday web hosting operations through unlimited, in-platform analytics and reporting. The tool is now available to customers across the 20i platform, which currently hosts more than one million websites for SMEs, digital agencies, and individual users.
Twentie is positioned as an account-aware assistant rather than a standalone productivity tool. By operating directly inside the hosting platform, it has access to live account data, configuration details, and performance metrics. This enables the assistant to generate insights and reports that are specific to a customer's [...]
📅 - US Signal Acquires New Data Center in Aurora, Illinois - US Signal, a U.S.-based provider of network, data center, and cloud infrastructure, has expanded its national footprint with the acquisition of a new data center facility in Aurora, Illinois. The move, announced this week, underscores the company's ongoing strategy to build a distributed, edge-focused data center platform that brings infrastructure closer to customers while remaining tightly integrated with a national backbone.
The Aurora site would strengthen US Signal's presence in the greater Chicago metropolitan area, one of the largest and most competitive enterprise technology markets in North America, and responds to sustained demand for local colocation, cloud, and connectivity [...]
📅 - OpenNebula Debuts on OVHcloud for Sovereign Cloud - OpenNebula Systems and OVHcloud have formalized a collaboration that places European digital sovereignty at the center of enterprise cloud strategy. Through OVHcloud's participation in the Hosted OpenNebula Cloud – Ready Certification Program, organizations can now deploy fully sovereign cloud instances powered by OpenNebula on certified European infrastructure, combining regulatory compliance with enterprise-grade performance.
The move comes as European enterprises and public institutions reassess their dependency on non-European hyperscalers amid tightening data protection requirements and rising geopolitical risk.
OVHcloud operates more than 500,000 servers across 46 data centers on [...]
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