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Intel's Server Revival Faces AMD's Wider Cloud Platform Play
📅 - Intel reported a sharp second-quarter recovery as stronger server demand and improved factory execution lifted revenue, but cloud operators and data center buyers face a more complicated choice. Intel is rebuilding around Xeon, networking, packaging, and foundry capacity just as AMD turns CPUs, accelerators, software, and rack-scale systems into a more integrated infrastructure proposition for global customers.
For hosting providers, colocation operators, and cloud platforms, Intel's 25 percent revenue increase is less important than the source of that improvement. Data Center and AI revenue rose 59 percent, while management said better yields and shorter factory cycle times supported [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Vultr Takes AMD Helios Rackscale and MI455X GPUs Into Cloud - Cloud infrastructure provider Vultr will begin offering AMD's upcoming Instinct MI455X accelerators and Helios rackscale architecture later this year, joining an increasingly competitive effort to provide alternatives to Nvidia-dominated AI infrastructure as enterprise buyers seek larger memory footprints, denser compute deployments, and more predictable economics for production-scale artificial intelligence workloads across global cloud platforms.
The announcement lands as the AI infrastructure conversation shifts away from simply acquiring GPUs. Buyers are now evaluating complete systems - networking, cooling, software compatibility, memory capacity, and deployment models increasingly [...]
📅 - Core42 and e& UAE Launch Sovereign AI Infrastructure Service - e& UAE and Core42 have unveiled a joint sovereign AI computing service aimed at giving enterprises access to domestic GPU infrastructure without building their own clusters, reflecting intensifying competition over where sensitive AI workloads run, who controls them, and which providers capture long-term enterprise spending as governments tighten digital sovereignty expectations across regulated sectors worldwide today increasingly.
The immediate product is straightforward enough: access to GPU capacity hosted inside the UAE, paired with telecommunications infrastructure, implementation services, and enterprise support under a single commercial arrangement. The larger story sits [...]
📅 - Cato Networks, CrowdStrike Unify Network and Endpoint Security - Cato Networks and CrowdStrike have linked their platforms to combine network and endpoint security telemetry, expanding visibility across enterprise environments as security teams struggle with fragmented tooling, AI-assisted attacks and mounting operational workloads. The integration also reflects growing demand for security products capable of exchanging contextual data rather than operating as isolated detection systems across organizations globally.
Security vendors have spent years arguing that better visibility leads to better security. Enterprises have spent those same years stitching together dashboards, agents, SIEM platforms, and network appliances that rarely agree on what [...]
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