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Xsight Labs Raises $300M at $2.8B Valuation to Power AI and [...]
Xsight Labs Raises $300M at $2.8B Valuation to Power AI and Cloud Networks
📅 - Xsight Labs has secured more than $300 million in fresh funding at a $2.8 billion valuation, giving the Israeli semiconductor startup additional capital to expand production and accelerate development of networking chips targeting AI infrastructure. The financing follows growing commercial adoption of its programmable data processing units and Ethernet switches by telecom operators, equipment vendors and hyperscale cloud customers.
The AI semiconductor race has become increasingly crowded, but it is also becoming more specialized.
While GPU vendors continue attracting the largest share of attention, another layer of infrastructure is quietly emerging as a competitive battleground. AI [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Equinix Reports Record Bookings and Higher AI Infrastructure Demand - Global data center colocation and interconnection firm Equinix delivered stronger-than-expected second-quarter growth, lifted its financial guidance for 2026 and raised long-term targets through 2029 as enterprise demand for AI, cloud connectivity and digital infrastructure continued accelerating. The data center operator also reported record interconnection growth and one of its strongest booking quarters, reinforcing confidence that customer investment remains broad-based despite persistent capacity constraints.
The AI infrastructure market continues producing a familiar pattern. GPU demand dominates headlines, yet the companies enabling connectivity between enterprises, cloud providers [...]
📅 - Lightpath Reports 32% Traffic Growth as Enterprise AI Expands - Enterprise AI adoption is beginning to leave measurable fingerprints on network infrastructure, according to connectivity provider Lightpath, which says IP traffic across its backbone has grown at an annualized 32 percent over the past eighteen months. The increase substantially exceeds historical growth rates, suggesting AI inference is becoming a meaningful source of enterprise bandwidth demand across multiple industries today.
The infrastructure conversation around AI has largely centered on training clusters, GPU supply and hyperscale data centers. Less attention has been paid to what happens after models are deployed. Yet inference generates a different kind of pressure. Every query, [...]
📅 - Xen 4.22 Broadens Hardware Support for Enterprise Virtualization - The Xen Project has released Xen 4.22, extending hardware support and refining core virtualization capabilities as cloud operators, embedded developers and automotive manufacturers continue demanding lightweight hypervisors for increasingly specialized workloads. The update emphasizes scalability, maintainability and functional safety rather than introducing headline features, reflecting the project's gradual engineering approach to long-term infrastructure development and reliability.
Virtualization has become less visible than containers, Kubernetes and AI infrastructure. It has hardly become less important. Hypervisors remain fundamental across public cloud infrastructure, enterprise [...]
📅 - Servers99 Releases Complete Guide to Building Self-Hosted S3-Compatible Object Storage with MinIO on Ubuntu 24.04 - As we move deeper into 2026, the demand for processing massive datasets—driven by AI training, RAG pipelines, and large-scale Kubernetes deployments—has reached an all-time high. While public cloud object storage remains a popular choice, organizations are increasingly feeling the financial strain of unpredictable data transfer and internet egress charges.
To address this growing industry challenge, Servers99 has published a comprehensive, step-by-step technical guide on how businesses can eliminate cloud egress fees by building their own S3-compatible Object Storage on private infrastructure.
The Solution: MinIO on Ubuntu 24.04 By leveraging MinIO—a high-performance, open-source ob
📅 - Nebius Highlights Energy and Water Efficiency in AI Growth - Nebius has published its 2025 Sustainability Report as the AI cloud provider expands toward multi-gigawatt infrastructure, arguing that engineering efficiency rather than offsets or broad environmental commitments will determine whether large-scale AI can remain commercially and socially viable. The report combines operational performance metrics with community investment plans as scrutiny of AI infrastructure continues intensifying among policymakers, utilities, investors, and local residents worldwide.
The AI industry has entered a phase where technical performance alone is no longer enough.
Every new data center proposal raises familiar questions about electricity demand, water [...]
📅 - GDPR and UK Data Residency: Why Server Location Is a Compliance Decision - The Question Most Businesses Ask Too Late When businesses choose a hosting location, the conversation is almost always about speed: lower latency for UK visitors, faster page loads, better search rankings. All true, and all good reasons to host in the UK. But there's a second question that gets asked far less often, usually only after a customer, auditor, or regulator raises it first: where, legally, is our data allowed to live? Server location isn't just an infrastructure decision. For any UK business handling personal data, it's a compliance decision with real legal consequences — and conflating it with a pure performance choice is one of the more expensive m
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