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Enterprise Network Buyers Face Barriers to Switching Vendors
📅 - Of the enterprise IT decision makers surveyed for Allied Telesis, 67% said they would consider changing network vendors if the move were easy and low risk. The catch is that 43% already feel mostly or completely tied to their main supplier. The gap helps explain why buyer dissatisfaction can surface at renewal without producing a new contract.
The survey covered 461 decision makers at organizations with at least 100 employees. Its two headline figures describe the sample as a whole, leaving open how many of the buyers who feel tied down are also ready to consider leaving. Price still gives those buyers a reason to look. Rising costs or unfavorable pricing and better performance or [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - IONOS Adds 370,000 Customers as It Prepares to Cut Costs - IONOS added about 370,000 customers in the first nine months of 2026 and lifted revenue 7.6% to €1.05 billion as the hosting provider prepares to cut costs and redirect some of the savings into cloud expansion and artificial intelligence products. The company ended September with 7 million customers and kept its annual adjusted earnings forecast in place.
That is a much bigger intake than the 210,000 customers IONOS added in the same period last year. For a hosting provider, those relationships offer a way to sell additional services without having to acquire a customer from scratch. A small business that buys a domain or hosts a website, though, may have little reason to move an [...]
📅 - Vertiv Introduces Outdoor UPS for AI Data Centers - Vertiv introduced an outdoor power protection system Thursday for AI data centers that need to fit more computing equipment into their buildings and manage sharp swings in electricity demand. The company says the system could help operators connect to the grid sooner, a claim whose value will depend on what utilities accept. Shipments are expected in mid-2027.
The PowerNexus MV UPS puts an uninterruptible power supply and equipment for smoothing changes in demand on a single outdoor skid near the utility connection. Moving that equipment out of the building can give a colocation operator more room for racks it can lease. How much of that space becomes sellable depends on whether the site [...]
📅 - Supermicro Adds Shared Flash Cache for AI Inference Clusters - Supermicro, IBM, and NVIDIA have launched a shared flash storage system that lets GPU servers reuse work from earlier AI requests across a cluster. The companies report up to 56 times faster time to first token in a test with a 130,000 token prompt and a 120 billion parameter model, compared with running without a KV cache.
For a GPU cloud operator, the buying question is how much accelerator time a storage rack can save. Inference starts with the model processing its input before it produces an answer. A key value cache holds intermediate results from that first step. If a later request begins with the same sequence of tokens, the server can reuse that work and process the rest of the [...]
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