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Element Critical Launches U.S. Data Center Platform - 📅 - Element Critical has unveiled a new U.S. data center platform backed by a consortium of institutional investors. The platform launch is anchored by the acquisition of two enterprise data center facilities located in Houston and Austin, positioning Texas as the initial foundation for a broader national expansion strategy.The new data center platform would signal continued confidence in enterprise-focused digital infrastructure as demand accelerates from AI-driven workloads and power-constrained markets.
The new data center platform is supported by 26North, Arctos, Mercuria, and Safanad. Together, the partners aim to accelerate acquisitions, development, and market entry across key U.S. [...]
AI Workloads Reshape Enterprise Storage Market, IDC Finds - 📅 - The steady expansion of artificial intelligence inside enterprise data centers is beginning to reshape one of the industry's most mature segments: enterprise storage. New market data from IDC shows that while overall growth in external enterprise storage systems remains modest, demand is increasingly being pulled toward high-performance flash platforms designed to support AI training and inference workloads.
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, the external OEM enterprise storage systems market grew 2.1 percent year over year in the third quarter of 2025, reaching $8.0 billion in vendor revenue. For a market long characterized by incremental growth [...]
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, the external OEM enterprise storage systems market grew 2.1 percent year over year in the third quarter of 2025, reaching $8.0 billion in vendor revenue. For a market long characterized by incremental growth [...]
Persistent, DigitalOcean Partner to Lower Barriers to AI Scale - 📅 - Persistent Systems and DigitalOcean have entered into a strategic partnership aimed at lowering the cost and complexity of enterprise AI adoption, as organizations increasingly move from experimentation to production-scale deployment of agentic and generative AI systems.
The collaboration brings together Persistent's digital engineering and AI platform capabilities with DigitalOcean's agentic cloud infrastructure, positioning the two companies to address growing demand for scalable, secure, and economically predictable AI environments.
At the center of the partnership is SASVA, Persistent's AI-powered platform designed to integrate code, documentation, architecture artifacts, and [...]
The collaboration brings together Persistent's digital engineering and AI platform capabilities with DigitalOcean's agentic cloud infrastructure, positioning the two companies to address growing demand for scalable, secure, and economically predictable AI environments.
At the center of the partnership is SASVA, Persistent's AI-powered platform designed to integrate code, documentation, architecture artifacts, and [...]
CrowdStrike Expands Falcon Platform to Secure AI Interactions - 📅 - CrowdStrike has moved to address what it describes as one of the fastest-emerging risks in enterprise AI by announcing the general availability of Falcon AI Detection and Response (AIDR), a security capability designed to protect the interaction layer where humans and AI systems increasingly meet.
As generative AI tools and autonomous agents become embedded in everyday workflows, the company is positioning prompt and agent interactions as a new, distinct attack surface that requires the same level of protection as endpoints, identities, and cloud workloads.
Falcon AIDR extends the existing Falcon platform to monitor and secure prompts, responses, and agent actions in real time. [...]
As generative AI tools and autonomous agents become embedded in everyday workflows, the company is positioning prompt and agent interactions as a new, distinct attack surface that requires the same level of protection as endpoints, identities, and cloud workloads.
Falcon AIDR extends the existing Falcon platform to monitor and secure prompts, responses, and agent actions in real time. [...]
Aravolta Raises $5.1M for AI-Era Data Center Control Software - 📅 - Aravolta has raised $5.1 million to accelerate the development of a next-generation data center operations platform designed for the AI era, as operators grapple with the operational complexity introduced by GPU-dense infrastructure. The funding highlights growing investor interest in software that can manage the tightly coupled power, cooling, and networking systems underpinning modern AI workloads.
The company positions itself at the intersection of data center infrastructure management (DCIM), electrical power monitoring systems (EPMS), and building management systems (BMS), integrating traditionally siloed operational data into a single, actionable control layer. While DCIM has long [...]
The company positions itself at the intersection of data center infrastructure management (DCIM), electrical power monitoring systems (EPMS), and building management systems (BMS), integrating traditionally siloed operational data into a single, actionable control layer. While DCIM has long [...]
Mirantis Launches AdaptiveOps Services for Agentic Infrastructure - 📅 - "We anticipate even faster adoption and accelerated development of the technology with MCP governance moving to the open source community," stated Randy Bias, vice president of open source strategy and technology at Mirantis. We are using our experience to assist businesses at any stage, from initial development to complete deployments, at this early stage of AI and MCP technology. Our adaptive strategy, which is based on open standards and a flexible architecture that can adapt to changes as technology advances, helps businesses navigate the maelstrom.
In order to provide engineering teams with a secure and dependable method of developing and managing MCP servers, while guaranteeing [...]
In order to provide engineering teams with a secure and dependable method of developing and managing MCP servers, while guaranteeing [...]
Fortinet, Arista Launch Secure AI Data Center Blueprint - 📅 - Fortinet and Arista Networks have moved to formalize a joint approach to securing and operating AI-focused data center infrastructure, unveiling a validated Secure AI Data Center solution that has already been deployed by semiconductor company Monolithic Power Systems (MPS).The announcement reflects growing demand among enterprises for architectures that can support high-density AI workloads while addressing security, performance, and operational complexity at the same time.
As organizations race to deploy large-scale AI training and inference environments, traditional data center designs are struggling to keep pace. AI workloads introduce extreme east-west traffic, ultra-low latency [...]
Palo Alto, Google Cloud Deepen AI Security Partnership - 📅 - As enterprises deploy AI across cloud environments, concerns around securing data, models, and infrastructure are drawing increased attention. Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership to address AI and cloud security requirements, combining infrastructure, AI services, and security platforms to support enterprise adoption at scale.The two companies announced a landmark agreement designed to tightly integrate Palo Alto Networks' AI security platforms with Google Cloud's AI, networking, and infrastructure services. The goal is to give enterprises a secure foundation for building, deploying, and operating AI-driven applications across hybrid and multicloud [...]
Netskope Expands in Southeast Asia with Malaysia Data Center - 📅 - Global cybersecurity firm Netskope is accelerating its push into Southeast Asia as enterprises across the region grapple with tightening data sovereignty rules, rising cyber risk, and the operational realities of cloud-first IT. The U.S.-based cloud security firm launched its first Malaysia data center and expanded in Indonesia, highlighting the growing importance of local infrastructure and expertise.
The new data center, located in Kuala Lumpur, is now part of Netskope's proprietary NewEdge network, a global private infrastructure that underpins the company's secure access service edge, or SASE, platform. With this addition, NewEdge connects more than 120 data centers worldwide, [...]
The new data center, located in Kuala Lumpur, is now part of Netskope's proprietary NewEdge network, a global private infrastructure that underpins the company's secure access service edge, or SASE, platform. With this addition, NewEdge connects more than 120 data centers worldwide, [...]
Expert Blog: Data Center Infrastructure in 2026 - 📅 - Author: Baron Fung, Dell'Oro GroupThe development of hyperscale AI infrastructure is about to reach a more developed stage. Hyperscalers are currently focused on effectively scaling AI computation and supporting infrastructure after years of fast regional development motivated by resilience, redundancy, and data sovereignty.
Despite historically high absolute investment levels, the cycle is becoming more and more characterized by execution risk and capital expenditure discipline as we into 2026.
Accelerated Servers Drive Most Spending
High-end accelerated server purchases increased significantly in 2025 and will be a major source of funding for AI infrastructure throughout 2026. Large AI [...]
Despite historically high absolute investment levels, the cycle is becoming more and more characterized by execution risk and capital expenditure discipline as we into 2026.
Accelerated Servers Drive Most Spending
High-end accelerated server purchases increased significantly in 2025 and will be a major source of funding for AI infrastructure throughout 2026. Large AI [...]