📅 - RETN says half of its IP/MPLS traffic now runs over 400G coherent ZR and ZR+ pluggable infrastructure, moving its IP-over-DWDM architecture from network upgrade project into live backbone economics as operators look for denser, lower-power ways to carry traffic across long-haul routes without adding more traditional transport complexity to already stretched infrastructure budgets in Europe and Asia.
For network buyers, this is not just another optical milestone. It suggests coherent pluggables are becoming operational infrastructure, not lab hardware or selective route optimization. RETN deployed hundreds of 400G coherent modules across its Pan-Eurasian backbone in 2025, covering links [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Galaxy Delivers First 133MW Phase of Texas AI Data Center to CoreWeave - Galaxy Digital has completed the first power phase at its Helios campus in West Texas, handing CoreWeave 133 megawatts of critical IT load under a 15-year lease and turning a former construction-heavy AI infrastructure project into a revenue-generating data center asset as power access becomes the scarce currency of hyperscale computing in America today for AI operators.
The numbers are large, but the sequencing matters more. Galaxy says Phase I delivered about 200 megawatts of gross power, with rent under the CoreWeave lease starting in the second quarter of 2026. That changes Helios from a land-and-power story into an operating asset. Investors tend to value those differently. So do [...]
📅 - IBM Mainframe Hardware Moves Into Standard Colocation Racks - IBM has widened its z17 and LinuxONE 5 portfolio with compact single-frame and rack-mount systems, aiming mainframe-class computing at data centers where floor space, power economics and specialist skills are becoming harder constraints, while giving enterprises a denser path for regulated workloads, AI inferencing, Linux consolidation and post-quantum security without abandoning existing infrastructure models already in place.
The new configurations mark a notable change in how IBM wants its highest-end enterprise systems to be bought and installed. For decades, IBM Z meant a certain physical and operational posture: specialized, controlled, expensive, deeply integrated into the core of [...]
📅 - Amsterdam Approves Equinix Data Center Despite Power Limits - Equinix has secured permission to build a large data center in Amsterdam-Zuidoost, despite the city's freeze on new facilities, with only one of four towers moving ahead as power constraints delay the full project and sharpen questions over grid capacity, drinking water use, housing plans and who gets priority in urban infrastructure through 2036 and possibly beyond.
For Amsterdam, this is less a real estate story than an allocation fight. The city wants more homes in Amstel III, an old office and industrial zone being remade into a mixed residential and employment district. Thousands of apartments are planned. At the same time, a major American data center operator has a preexisting path [...]
📅 - DigitalOcean Secures Nine-Figure AI Cloud Commitments - DigitalOcean says it has signed multiple nine-figure annual commitments for AI inference and cloud services, sharply expanding contracted revenue while adding 20 megawatts of future data center capacity, as competition increasingly shifts from securing GPUs alone toward locking in long-term infrastructure, software platforms and enterprise AI demand over the next several years globally.
The commitments stand out less because of the headline dollar figures than because of what they do to DigitalOcean's forward visibility. The company says remaining performance obligations are expected to climb more than tenfold from the second quarter of fiscal 2025 to more than $800 million. Just as [...]
📅 - Barracuda Buys Evo Security to Build MSP Identity Stack - Barracuda has acquired Evo Security, an identity and access management vendor built for managed service providers, adding PAM, access control and identity threat response to BarracudaONE as MSPs face more credential-based attacks, more customer environments to secure and a harder question: whether fragmented identity tooling can survive the arrival of AI-driven infrastructure operations at scale for customers.
The deal is about identity security, yes. But more specifically, it is about who can package identity controls for the MSP channel without turning deployment into another integration project.
Barracuda is folding Evo Security into BarracudaONE, its broader cyber resilience [...]
📅 - The Midwestern Advantage: Why Chicago is the Ultimate Hub for Dedicated Servers - For global enterprises, high-frequency trading firms, and IT professionals looking to dominate the North American digital landscape, choosing the right geographical deployment zone is the single most critical infrastructure decision you can make. While many businesses default to coastal hubs like New York or Los Angeles, doing so introduces a severe "latency penalty" for users on the opposite side of the continent. At iDatam, we provide the ultimate solution: premium bare metal dedicated servers located in the absolute digital crossroads of the United States—Chicago, Illinois.
Chicago acts as the terrestrial fiber-optic balancing point for the entire continent. By centralizing your network
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