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VPS Management Gets Harder as Workloads and Server Counts Grow
📅 - A Virtual Private Server can look deceptively simple: choose a plan, install an operating system, deploy an application, and start serving traffic. In practice, the operational burden begins after provisioning. A VPS gives customers more control and stronger resource isolation than shared hosting, but that control also transfers responsibility for security, patching, monitoring, backup, capacity planning, and recovery.
For infrastructure teams, the important question is not whether a VPS is flexible. It is whether the organization can operate that flexibility reliably as workloads change.
That distinction matters because VPS hosting occupies an awkward but useful middle ground. Shared [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - SecureSky Adds ML and eBPF Data Monitoring with Soveren Acquisition - SecureSky has acquired Soveren to add real time data security posture management to its exposure management and managed detection platform, extending coverage across cloud and on premises environments. The deal brings eBPF based network analysis, machine learning classification and monitoring of sensitive data in motion into SecureSky's stack, including encrypted TLS traffic where conventional discovery tools can struggle at scale.
For enterprise security teams, the acquisition addresses a problem that has become harder as data spreads across cloud services, applications, databases and third party connections. Knowing which systems are exposed is one job. Understanding what sensitive [...]
📅 - HP Extends Data Center AI Stack With NVIDIA and Red Hat - HP is extending its AI architecture from centralized data centers toward local deployments, combining HP ZGX Fury systems with Red Hat AI Factory and NVIDIA software. The platform targets production inference near users, machines and sensitive data, promising up to 20 PFLOPS of FP4 performance while keeping hybrid management, governance and workload isolation within an operating model.
The hardware is only part of the proposition. HP is trying to give enterprises a way to operate substantial AI inference capacity at factories, branches, engineering sites, government facilities and other locations without treating every installation as an isolated infrastructure project. Red Hat AI Factory [...]
📅 - Digital Realty Adds ERA-IX to Vienna Connectivity Ecosystem - ERA-IX is expanding into Vienna through Digital Realty's campus, adding another carrier-neutral internet exchange to a market already dense with network providers, cloud connections, and enterprise traffic. The move gives operators more local peering and interconnection options, while testing whether Vienna can support another exchange without fragmenting traffic or weakening the economics that make peering useful.
For network operators, the immediate change is choice. A new exchange can create additional paths for keeping traffic local, reducing reliance on paid transit, and shortening routes between networks that already have meaningful traffic volumes in Vienna. That can improve [...]
📅 - Eliminate CPU Jitter: Lock C-States on Dedicated Servers - In high-concurrency and latency-sensitive environments, microsecond delays can severely impact performance. High-Frequency Trading (HFT) platforms, real-time VoIP systems, and competitive multiplayer game servers demand absolute, predictable compute response times. Out of the box, standard Linux operating systems utilize power-saving governors that dynamically scale CPU frequencies and place idle cores into power-saving sleep states known as C-states.
Understanding C-States and Exit Latency When a CPU core enters a deep sleep state (such as C3 or C6), it flushes its cache and powers down to conserve energy. However, returning from C6 back to C0 (the active state) incurs a wake-up latency pe
📅 - IonQ Takes Quantum Computing Into Standard Data Center Racks - IonQ is preparing to sell a 256 qubit quantum system designed to occupy a standard data center rack, a move that could shift quantum computing closer to infrastructure procurement. Superion 256 is slated for delivery in 2027, with semiconductor based qubit control, lower claimed power requirements, and a manufacturing model intended to support production at commercial scale.
For data center operators, the rack claim is probably more consequential than the headline qubit count. Quantum machines have usually demanded specialized environments, specialist installation work, and operational assumptions far removed from mainstream compute infrastructure. IonQ says Superion 256 avoids bespoke [...]
📅 - Keepit Hits $100M Milestone as AI Reshapes SaaS Backup - Keepit has crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue as the Danish SaaS data protection provider tries to reposition backup infrastructure for enterprise AI. The company says growth has accelerated around its AI Truth Cloud strategy, while its independent cloud architecture is increasingly aimed at buyers concerned about data integrity, sovereignty, hyperscaler dependence, recovery, and operational control.
The revenue milestone gives Keepit more room to argue that backup is moving beyond a defensive IT function. Since One Peak first invested in September 2020, Keepit says the business has expanded more than thirteenfold, equivalent to a compound annual growth rate above 55%. That [...]
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