May, 2026 : VMware Customers Discover No Easy Exit Strategy
📅 - VMware customers weighing an exit are running into a harder reality: the VMware replacement market is fragmented, migration risk is high, and no obvious successor has emerged. In a recent r/vmware discussion on Reddit, administrators compared moves to Hyper-V, Proxmox, Nutanix, OpenShift Virtualization, XCP-ng, CloudStack, KVM, and other stacks - with licensing, storage, support, and skills shaping most decisions.
The Reddit poll was not scientific. It had 57 upvotes and 180 comments. Still, it captured something vendors keep trying to simplify and buyers keep discovering the hard way: replacing VMware is not mainly about choosing a hypervisor.
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📅 - IREN Buys Spanish Data Center Developer For Europe Expansion - IREN is buying Spanish developer Ingenostrum, known as Nostrum Group, in a deal that gives the Australian infrastructure company an immediate foothold in Europe's fast-heating AI data center market. The acquisition adds roughly 490MW of secured grid-connected capacity in Spain and lifts IREN's broader power portfolio to 5GW, as operators scramble for energy, land, and permitting pathways.
The timing is difficult to ignore. AI infrastructure demand is rising faster than power networks can comfortably absorb, particularly across major European markets where hyperscalers and cloud providers are already competing aggressively for capacity. Spain, until recently treated as a secondary market [...]
📅 - Digital Realty Accelerates Global Data Center Workforce Training - The race to build data centers fast enough for AI demand is exposing a less glamorous problem: there are not enough people to run them. Digital Realty, one of the world's largest data center operators, is now widening its hiring funnel through a partnership with DCD Academy, aiming to train workers with little or no technical background for operational roles across its facilities worldwide today.
Digital Realty is effectively acknowledging what much of the industry has been reluctant to say publicly for years. The traditional hiring model for data center operations is no longer scaling. Demand for cloud infrastructure keeps climbing, hyperscalers continue locking in capacity, and [...]
📅 - RETN Expands Eastern Europe Fiber Route Through Romania - RETN has launched a new backbone network route stretching across Romania into Moldova, adding another physical connectivity corridor through a region where telecom resilience has become increasingly strategic. The route links Drobeta, Bucharest, Iași, and Chișinău as a continuous backbone path, creating an alternative traffic route for operators and enterprises moving data across Eastern Europe and surrounding markets today.
The new infrastructure also connects into RETN's existing Balkans corridor running through Budapest, Timișoara, and Sofia. On paper, that sounds like another regional fiber expansion announcement. In practice, it reflects something larger happening across Eastern [...]
📅 - OVHcloud Opens Auckland Local Zone For Sovereign Cloud - French cloud provider OVHcloud has opened its first Asia Pacific Local Zone in Auckland through a partnership with Datacentre220, extending low-latency public cloud services into New Zealand as sovereignty concerns reshape infrastructure decisions. The deployment gives regional organizations local data residency options while reducing latency for workloads previously dependent on Australian or broader international cloud infrastructure and connectivity routes.
For OVHcloud, the Auckland launch is less about entering another cloud market and more about positioning itself inside the growing debate around digital sovereignty, data locality, and infrastructure independence.
The company [...]
📅 - Microsoft Kenya Data Center Plans Stall Amid Payment Fight - Microsoft's East Africa cloud expansion has slowed after talks with Kenya's government became tangled in disputes over financial guarantees tied to a planned hyperscale data center project. Bloomberg reported negotiations have dragged on for months, raising uncertainty around the future scale of the facility and exposing how difficult large infrastructure financing remains across emerging cloud markets for global technology providers today.
Microsoft's original pitch sounded straightforward enough. A $1 billion investment alongside UAE artificial intelligence company G42, a new Azure cloud region in East Africa, geothermal-powered operations, and a political rollout timed to coincide with [...]
📅 - KKR Taps Ex-AWS CEO For $10B AI Infrastructure Venture - Private equity giant KKR is assembling a new artificial intelligence infrastructure company with more than $10 billion already lined up, according to Bloomberg, placing former Amazon Web Services chief Adam Selipsky at the center of one of the industry's largest capital formations tied directly to hyperscale computing demand and the scramble for electricity, networking capacity, and data center construction worldwide.
The company, called Helix Digital Infrastructure, is being designed less like a conventional data center operator and more like an industrial supply chain for the AI era. People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg the business will build, own, and operate infrastructure [...]
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