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Reach Security Raises Over $50M to Automatically Block [...]
Reach Security Raises Over $50M to Automatically Block AI-Powered Attacks
📅 - Reach Security has raised more than $50 million in Series B funding and launched Reach Everywhere, expanding access to live security control data through integrations and software interfaces. The company aims to help enterprises identify exposed attack paths and adjust existing defenses, putting configuration accuracy and automated change management at the center of its latest expansion strategy.
For infrastructure operators, the problem is familiar: owning a security product does not establish that its rules protect the systems they are Reach Security's Founding TeamLeft to right: Colt Blackmore, CTO and co-founder, and Garrett Hamilton, CEO and co-founder.supposed to cover. [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - ICANN Reveals 1,615 Applications for New Domain Extensions - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has disclosed 1,615 applications for new domain extensions, giving domain registrars and hosting providers a clearer view of potential inventory and competitors. The October 7 snapshot includes 333 brand applications, but proposed names remain subject to changes, evaluation and disputes before any can become available to businesses or individual registrants.
For domain businesses, the immediate asset is information. Applicants and proposed strings are now visible, allowing providers to examine which extensions might fit their customers and which applications compete. That can inform commercial conversations and product [...]
📅 - EXA Infrastructure Expands Milan–Zurich and Paris–Vienna Connectivity - EXA Infrastructure has added fiber routes between Milan and Zurich and between Paris and Vienna, completing a corridor linking Frankfurt with Genoa and strengthening connections toward the Balkans. The expansion gives network buyers additional options for connecting European data center markets, although the resilience value depends on physical routing, facility access and the services purchased at endpoints.
For cloud providers and colocation operators, the useful change is another way to connect facilities and carry traffic beyond individual markets. A new backbone route can widen procurement choices, support additional capacity or provide an alternative path during disruption. None of [...]
📅 - Astera Labs Unveils Modular Racks for AI Inference Providers - Astera Labs has introduced Orion, a modular rack architecture designed to let AI cloud operators choose processors and accelerators without rebuilding their infrastructure around each platform. Partner systems are expected beginning in the first quarter of 2027, with the company targeting inference costs and deployment delays but providing no quantified performance comparisons or pricing in its announcement.
For providers selling inference services, the attraction is purchasing flexibility. An accelerator that is available at an acceptable price may be more useful commercially than a faster device that cannot arrive before a customer's contract starts. Retaining the rack design while [...]
📅 - Eurofiber Connects Data Centers in Berlin, Frankfurt and Four Other German Cities - Eurofiber has launched wavelength division multiplexing services connecting data centers within and between six German cities, expanding transport options for enterprises, cloud providers and network operators. The offering primarily uses NGN Fiber Network infrastructure, giving buyers another supplier for distributed workloads while leaving specific facility coverage, service capacities, pricing and physical route diversity to be established commercially.
The commercial value depends on where those connections terminate. A cloud provider evaluating another facility needs to know whether its production, storage and recovery systems can communicate within acceptable performance limits. An [...]
📅 - Ring 0 CPU Flaws: Cloud Risks vs. Bare Metal Security - For over a decade, public cloud hyperscalers have operated on a fundamental promise: logical isolation is as secure as physical isolation. By placing a software abstraction layer known as a hypervisor between physical hardware and guest virtual machines, cloud providers assured enterprises that multiple competing companies could safely coexist on the exact same physical server.
In 2026, the disclosure of Intel's CVE-2025-35973 completely unraveled that assumption.
The Danger of Multi-Tenant Architecture Hardware-level CPU vulnerabilities demonstrate that software rules cannot contain physical silicon flaws. When multiple tenants share a single physical CPU, security boundaries are governed
📅 - Maximizing VM Network & Storage Performance with SR-IOV - Virtualization has fundamentally transformed infrastructure flexibility, allowing engineering teams to rapidly provision, snapshot, and scale environments. However, traditional hypervisors impose a strict performance penalty known as the "hypervisor tax." Whenever a virtual machine (VM) routes traffic through a software-based Linux bridge or processes storage I/O through an emulated VirtIO controller, CPU overhead spikes and microsecond latencies are introduced. For high-frequency trading applications, massive database clusters, and 100Gbps firewalls, this overhead is simply unacceptable.
The Power of PCIe Passthrough and SR-IOV To bypass software emulation, systems engineers are utilizing
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