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Databricks Lines Up New Funding at a $188 Billion Valuation - 📅 - Databricks has signed a term sheet for fresh strategic financing that would value the data infrastructure company at $188 billion, with Coatue leading the round. The deal, expected to close later this summer, gives Databricks more capital for AI products, acquisitions and research - while raising fresh questions about valuation discipline and enterprise demand at that price.
The company is not disclosing the size of the round, which limits any serious assessment of dilution, runway or how much strategic influence participating investors may gain. What is visible is the destination of the money. Databricks plans to expand Unity AI Gateway, its control layer for model access and spending, [...]
The company is not disclosing the size of the round, which limits any serious assessment of dilution, runway or how much strategic influence participating investors may gain. What is visible is the destination of the money. Databricks plans to expand Unity AI Gateway, its control layer for model access and spending, [...]
Taiwan Manufacturers Use AI to Accelerate Production of NVIDIA AI Servers - 📅 - Taiwanese manufacturers are using AI to compress production times for Nvidia's next-generation servers, turning factory automation into a direct answer to surging infrastructure demand. Foxconn says it can produce a Vera Rubin server tray every minute, while assembly and inspection processes are also accelerating as suppliers race to deliver increasingly complex AI systems at commercial scale globally.
The development matters because AI server availability is shaped by more than access to Nvidia accelerators. Processor trays must be assembled with networking, power, cooling and data-management components, then tested as part of increasingly dense rack-scale systems. Each manufacturing [...]
The development matters because AI server availability is shaped by more than access to Nvidia accelerators. Processor trays must be assembled with networking, power, cooling and data-management components, then tested as part of increasingly dense rack-scale systems. Each manufacturing [...]
NetApp Buys DataPelago to Bring AI Processing Closer to Data - 📅 - NetApp is buying AI infrastructure startup DataPelago in a move that reflects a growing realization across enterprise IT: expensive GPUs are not the only constraint slowing AI adoption. Data movement has become just as problematic. By bringing accelerated processing closer to where enterprise data already resides, NetApp is attempting to remove one of the largest operational barriers separating AI experimentation from production deployment.
The acquisition adds DataPelago's software to NetApp's intelligent data infrastructure portfolio, extending the storage company's ambitions well beyond traditional file and object storage. Rather than treating storage as passive infrastructure feeding [...]
The acquisition adds DataPelago's software to NetApp's intelligent data infrastructure portfolio, extending the storage company's ambitions well beyond traditional file and object storage. Rather than treating storage as passive infrastructure feeding [...]
Raritan KVM Overhaul Adds APIs, Security and Remote Recovery - 📅 - Remote infrastructure management rarely attracts much attention until systems stop responding. Then it becomes one of the few remaining ways into an environment. Legrand's latest KVM-over-IP platform reflects that reality, adding automation, stronger hardware security and higher performance as enterprises increasingly prepare for outages, ransomware incidents and geographically distributed operations across critical infrastructure today.
Keyboard, Video and Mouse technology occupies an unusual place inside enterprise infrastructure. It is rarely discussed during cloud transformation projects, almost invisible in software-defined infrastructure conversations, and generally absent from [...]
Keyboard, Video and Mouse technology occupies an unusual place inside enterprise infrastructure. It is rarely discussed during cloud transformation projects, almost invisible in software-defined infrastructure conversations, and generally absent from [...]
Aisuru Botnet Now Drives One Third of DDoS Traffic, Says Arelion - 📅 - Arelion says one botnet accounted for roughly a third of the distributed denial-of-service traffic crossing its backbone, as attack volumes jumped into multi-terabit territory and shorter campaigns became harder to contain. The carrier's 2026 report points to Aisuru as the main driver, exposing how compromised consumer devices are now reshaping network defense economics across global infrastructure providers.The numbers are unusually concentrated. Aisuru generated about 33 percent of the DDoS traffic observed on Arelion's AS1299 backbone, according to the carrier, after assembling more than 500,000 compromised Internet of Things and Android-based devices. A related variant, KimWolf, had [...]
Aisuru Botnet Now Drives One Third of DDoS Traffic, Says Arelion - 📅 - Arelion says one botnet accounted for roughly a third of the distributed denial-of-service traffic crossing its backbone, as attack volumes jumped into multi-terabit territory and shorter campaigns became harder to contain. The carrier's 2026 report points to Aisuru as the main driver, exposing how compromised consumer devices are now reshaping network defense economics across global infrastructure providers.The numbers are unusually concentrated. Aisuru generated about 33 percent of the DDoS traffic observed on Arelion's AS1299 backbone, according to the carrier, after assembling more than 500,000 compromised Internet of Things and Android-based devices. A related variant, KimWolf, had [...]
Leaseweb, ITQ Target Europe's VMware Cloud Foundation Market - 📅 - Leaseweb and ITQ have agreed to combine infrastructure and VMware expertise across Europe, creating a route for enterprises and service providers looking to remain on VMware Cloud Foundation after Broadcom's overhaul of VMware's partner ecosystem. The collaboration targets customers balancing modernization demands against sovereignty requirements, licensing uncertainty, and operational continuity across regulated European markets.Broadcom's reshaping of VMware's commercial model continues to ripple through the cloud infrastructure market. The latest move comes from Leaseweb, which recently secured VMware Cloud Service Provider Pinnacle Partner status, and Dutch technology specialist ITQ, [...]
AI Bots Make Online Commerce Cybercrime's New Primary Target - 📅 - Akamai says commerce has become the primary target for AI-enabled bot attacks, API abuse, application-layer denial-of-service campaigns, and increasingly automated fraud. By December 2025, AI bots represented 47.9% of commerce traffic observed on its network, forcing retailers, travel operators, payment providers, and marketplaces to reconsider how they identify customers, machines, and criminal automation at scale in production.The immediate problem is not simply more hostile traffic. It is that legitimate automation and criminal automation are beginning to look operationally similar. Shopping agents browse product catalogs, compare prices, assemble carts, and use stored credentials. [...]
IBM Adds Agentic Operations and Local AI to Power11 Systems - 📅 - IBM is widening its automation strategy for Power infrastructure with autonomous operations software, AI-assisted IBM i development tools, and a compact Power11 server aimed at edge inference. Together they reflect growing pressure on enterprise IT teams managing increasingly autonomous software while preserving availability across business-critical systems that remain expensive, specialized, and difficult to modernize at enterprise scale.IBM is responding to a problem that extends well beyond hardware refresh cycles. Large enterprises increasingly expect AI systems to make operational decisions independently, yet the infrastructure supporting those workloads often still depends on [...]
Nebius Offers Data Center Owners a Route Into AI Cloud - 📅 - Nebius has opened its AI cloud platform to outside infrastructure owners, offering data center investors and regional operators a way to deploy Nebius-designed capacity without surrendering asset ownership. Separately, Reflection AI has signed a compute agreement with Nebius worth more than $1 billion through 2029, securing access to Nvidia GB300 systems amid persistent capacity shortages for developers.
The two developments are commercially related only in the broadest sense. Nebius needs more computing capacity. AI developers are trying to reserve increasingly large blocks of it. There is no disclosed connection between the Reflection contract and the newly introduced partner model, and [...]
The two developments are commercially related only in the broadest sense. Nebius needs more computing capacity. AI developers are trying to reserve increasingly large blocks of it. There is no disclosed connection between the Reflection contract and the newly introduced partner model, and [...]