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Arista Expands Cognitive Campus With VESPA and Agentic AI - 📅 - Along with important additions to its campus switching portfolio that bring the strength, dependability, and ease of use of Arista's EOS (Extensible Operating System) to outdoor settings, the company also announced an expansion of Arista AVA (Autonomous Virtual Assist) agentic AI, which is intended to further streamline AI Ops use cases.

Todd Nightingale, President and COO of Arista, stated, "Arista is seeing continuous momentum in the campus as customers see the benefit of a single, consistent network experience across all domains, including the AI and data center, cloud, campus, branch, and enterprise WAN." "Arista is assisting customers in removing vendor silos and tool sprawl by [...]
cloudflare.com logoCloudflare Releases Top Internet Trends for 2025 - 📅 - Cloudflare has released its sixth annual Year in Review, offering a detailed snapshot of how the global Internet evolved during 2025 amid rising automation, intensifying cyber threats, and rapid advances in cryptography.

Drawing on data from its global network, the report outlines a year marked by significant growth in traffic volumes, escalating "bot wars," and a notable shift in the targets and scale of online attacks, underscoring how deeply digital infrastructure has become embedded in economic, social, and political life.

According to Cloudflare's analysis, global Internet traffic grew 19 percent year over year, reflecting both continued digitalization across industries and [...]
NVIDIA Buys Slurm Developer SchedMD to Boost Open-Source AI - 📅 - NVIDIA has acquired SchedMD, the company behind Slurm, one of the world's most widely used open-source workload management and job scheduling platforms for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence environments. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

The move underscores NVIDIA's growing emphasis on software infrastructure as a critical enabler of large-scale AI and HPC deployments, while reaffirming its public commitment to maintaining Slurm as open-source, vendor-neutral software.

Slurm plays a foundational role in modern compute environments by managing how jobs are queued, scheduled, and executed across large clusters of CPUs and GPUs. As AI training [...]
Niterra Partners with Rackspace to Speed Google Cloud Migration - 📅 - Niterra set out to unite its worldwide server environment under a single cloud platform, guided by its "Google first" IT approach. In the middle of the project, the company had to consolidate three on-premise data centers in Frankfurt, Johannesburg, and Dubai while moving its whole SAP ECC infrastructure to Google Cloud in two months, which is less than half the usual time frame.

The company needed a partner that could provide speed, security, and zero business disruption because it had no past cloud footprint.

According to Bernd Hinkmann, Senior Manager, IT Service Delivery Management EMEA at Niterra, "We needed a partner with not only deep SAP and Google Cloud experience, but also the [...]
ISG Study: U.S. Enterprises Scale AI Across Public Clouds - 📅 - U.S. enterprises are accelerating the use of artificial intelligence across public cloud environments as they seek to modernize core operations while maintaining tighter control over costs, governance, and performance, according to new research from Information Services Group (ISG).

The findings, published in the 2025 ISG Provider Lens Multi Public Cloud Services report for the United States, suggest that AI is rapidly becoming a foundational element of enterprise cloud strategies rather than an experimental add-on.

The report indicates that organizations are increasingly relying on cloud-native AI tools to simplify application development, modernize data pipelines, and automate [...]
AI, Databricks, enterprise AI, data platforms, Series L funding, generative AI, data warehousing, B2B technology, AI applications - 📅 - Databricks has announced one of the largest private funding rounds in the technology sector to date, revealing it is raising more than $4 billion in a Series L investment that values the company at $134 billion. The announcement underscores Databricks' rapid ascent as enterprises increasingly prioritize data-driven artificial intelligence, and it positions the company among the most highly valued private software firms globally.

Alongside the funding news, Databricks disclosed that it surpassed a $4.8 billion annualized revenue run rate during its third quarter, growing more than 55 percent year over year while maintaining positive free cash flow over the past 12 months.

The company's [...]
templus.com logoAtlasEdge Sells Nine European Data Centers to Templus from Spain - 📅 - AtlasEdge and Templus have reached an agreement that will see Spanish firm Templus acquire nine data centers from AtlasEdge in a transaction that reshapes parts of the European colocation landscape and signals the next phase of growth strategies for both operators. The facilities are located across major European metropolitan hubs, including Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Zurich, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Leeds and Copenhagen.

The deal remains subject to customary regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the first half of 2026, with AtlasEdge continuing to operate the sites and serve customers until completion. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

For AtlasEdge, the [...]
Nutanix Expands Platform for Sovereign AI Infrastructure - 📅 - Nutanix has expanded its cloud platform with a broad set of new capabilities aimed at helping enterprises navigate the growing complexity of hybrid multicloud operations while meeting increasingly strict sovereignty, security, and resilience requirements.

The latest updates to the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) are designed to give organizations greater freedom to deploy, govern, and operate infrastructure across a mix of on-premises environments, public clouds, sovereign cloud providers, and even fully disconnected or ‘dark site' locations, without losing centralized control or operational simplicity.

As enterprises distribute applications across regions and platforms to support [...]
Pure Data Centres to Develop €1B+ Hyperscale Campus in Amsterdam - 📅 - Pure Data Centres has secured what it describes as Europe's largest standalone hyperscale data center lease signed in 2025, marking a significant infrastructure commitment in one of the continent's most capacity-constrained digital markets. The agreement covers an entire 78-megawatt hyperscale campus in Westpoort, Amsterdam, with Pure DC committing more than €1 billion to develop the site for a single hyperscale customer.

The transaction underscores the ongoing demand from cloud and AI operators for large-scale, low-latency capacity in established European hubs, even as power availability and planning constraints tighten. As part of the deal, Pure DC has acquired the site on a long [...]
NVIDIA Readies Open-Source GPU Fleet Monitoring for AI Data Centers - 📅 - As artificial intelligence workloads scale rapidly, data center operators are facing mounting pressure to maintain visibility and control across increasingly complex GPU-driven environments. Performance optimization, thermal management, and energy efficiency have become mission-critical variables as AI systems grow in size, density, and geographic distribution.

In response, NVIDIA is developing a new software service designed to give enterprises and cloud providers centralized insight into the health and utilization of large fleets of NVIDIA GPUs.

The initiative aims to address a growing operational gap in modern AI infrastructure. As GPU clusters expand across multiple data centers and [...]