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OVHcloud Pairs Agentic Workspace Preview With Quantum Plans - 📅 - OVHcloud is widening its European cloud agenda on two fronts, previewing OVHai Workspace for encrypted agentic collaboration while advancing quantum infrastructure work with Welinq and Quobly. The moves place workplace software, AI agents, sovereign cloud, and quantum access under one infrastructure narrative, although the company still has to prove customers want them beyond specialist early adopters.The announcements are easy to overread. They should not be.
OVHai Workspace is a preview product, not a finished market challenge to Microsoft or Google. The quantum work is partly research, partly platform expansion, and still some distance from broad enterprise use. But OVHcloud is doing [...]
Vattenfall, Project Enki Explore Wind-Powered Offshore Data Centers - 📅 - Energy company Vattenfall and Project Enki, together with technology partner ABB, have launched a joint initiative to explore the development of offshore data centers directly connected to offshore wind farms. The concept aims to power data center infrastructure entirely with renewable energy generated at sea, addressing growing demand for compute-intensive workloads such as artificial intelligence while reducing pressure on onshore electricity grids.
The collaboration focuses on integrating existing technologies in a new way. Project Enki would develop and operate the offshore data centers, while Vattenfall would provide a long-term supply of renewable electricity generated by offshore [...]
The collaboration focuses on integrating existing technologies in a new way. Project Enki would develop and operate the offshore data centers, while Vattenfall would provide a long-term supply of renewable electricity generated by offshore [...]
Digital Realty Makes Interconnection Programmable for AI - 📅 - Digital Realty has made ServiceFabric Model Context Protocol available, extending its interconnection platform with programmable controls for private AI infrastructure across more than 800 data centers. The launch puts MCP-based interfaces around connectivity, telemetry, identity, and operations as enterprises try to run AI workloads near data while retaining policy control, sovereign placement, and partner flexibility at scale.The company is not claiming to have solved private AI. Nobody has. But it is trying to make one part of the problem more programmable: the physical and network infrastructure that sits between enterprise data, AI systems, partners, clouds, and colocation [...]
Netskope Courts MSPs and AI Buyers With New Automation, AWS Tie-Up - 📅 - Netskope is expanding its channel strategy and AI security footprint simultaneously, introducing a new managed services partner program while also deepening ties with Amazon Web Services around the governance of autonomous AI agents, as enterprises increasingly treat both cybersecurity operations and AI deployment as outsourced, platform-driven functions across increasingly complex environments today.
The two announcements address different audiences on paper. One targets managed service providers trying to scale SASE and security operations businesses. The other focuses on enterprises wrestling with the governance of agentic AI. Yet both point toward the same underlying challenge: [...]
The two announcements address different audiences on paper. One targets managed service providers trying to scale SASE and security operations businesses. The other focuses on enterprises wrestling with the governance of agentic AI. Yet both point toward the same underlying challenge: [...]
U.S. CFOs Back Tech Spending as Economic Confidence Hits Low - 📅 - Grant Thornton research says CFOs are increasing technology spending even as confidence in the U.S. economy falls to a 20-quarter low. The Q2 2026 survey finds 67% expect to raise IT and digital transformation budgets, while 68% still expect profit growth, despite inflation, tariffs, supply chain stress, and weaker confidence in cost control across companies this year.
That is the uncomfortable signal in the data. Finance chiefs are worried about the economy, but they are not freezing technology budgets. Not yet. They are spending into uncertainty, partly because the alternative looks worse: aging systems, weak automation, slower decision-making, and competitors using AI to cut costs or [...]
That is the uncomfortable signal in the data. Finance chiefs are worried about the economy, but they are not freezing technology budgets. Not yet. They are spending into uncertainty, partly because the alternative looks worse: aging systems, weak automation, slower decision-making, and competitors using AI to cut costs or [...]
Deloitte Opens London AI Studio With Google Cloud - 📅 - Deloitte has launched an AI Studio in London with Google Cloud, aiming to help UK organizations move agentic AI projects from prototypes into production. The facility, opening in late July, will support clients in public services, finance, retail, healthcare, life sciences, and TMT, while Deloitte trains 1,000 UK AI and data specialists on Gemini Enterprise.The announcement lands in a market that has started to tire of AI demos. Enterprises have spent the past two years testing copilots, chat interfaces, internal search tools, and productivity assistants. Useful in places. Underwhelming in others. Agentic AI is being sold as the next stage: systems that do not merely answer questions but [...]
Cisco Research Finds AI Is Straining Enterprise Networks - 📅 - New Cisco and Foundry research says AI adoption is already stressing campus and branch networks, with 73% of organizations facing or expecting capacity constraints within two years. The survey of 3,400-plus IT and networking leaders points to surging traffic, wider security exposure, and visibility gaps as agentic, generative, and physical AI move into enterprise operations at scale.
The useful part of the research is not the vendor framing. Cisco sells networking gear, security software, observability tools, and management platforms. It has an obvious interest in making the network look central to AI adoption.
Still, the numbers are difficult to ignore.
Organizations reported network [...]
The useful part of the research is not the vendor framing. Cisco sells networking gear, security software, observability tools, and management platforms. It has an obvious interest in making the network look central to AI adoption.
Still, the numbers are difficult to ignore.
Organizations reported network [...]
AI Servers Redraw Data Center Spending, IDC Data Shows - 📅 - IDC says worldwide server revenue reached $122.6 billion in the first quarter of 2026, rising 30.4% year over year, as AI infrastructure spending recast the market around accelerators, non-x86 systems, and constrained memory supply, while traditional server demand remained healthy but increasingly dependent on components vendors could not deliver fast enough for buyers globally during the quarter.
The server market is not simply growing. It is being rearranged.
For two decades, enterprise infrastructure buyers could mostly think in x86 refresh cycles, vendor discounts, virtualization density, and predictable procurement windows. That world is still there. Sort of. But IDC's first-quarter [...]
The server market is not simply growing. It is being rearranged.
For two decades, enterprise infrastructure buyers could mostly think in x86 refresh cycles, vendor discounts, virtualization density, and predictable procurement windows. That world is still there. Sort of. But IDC's first-quarter [...]
AWS Puts Fault-Tolerant Quantum on Cloud Roadmap With QuEra - 📅 - QuEra Computing's first fault-tolerant quantum machine, Libra, will reach Amazon Braket in 2028, giving AWS customers cloud access to a neutral-atom system designed for roughly one million reliable logical quantum operations, more than 256 error-corrected logical qubits, and a stated logical error rate of 10^-6, if the roadmap actually holds as promised commercially too, broadly.For enterprises, this is not yet a procurement event. It is a planning problem. Libra will not arrive as another experimental quantum device for short demonstrations and grant-funded curiosity. QuEra and AWS are describing something closer to infrastructure: a fault-tolerant processor exposed through a cloud [...]
Equinix Takes AI Factories Into Global Colocation - 📅 - Equinix is expanding work with Cisco and NVIDIA to deploy Cisco Secure AI Factory designs across its global colocation footprint, adding Presidio's P.A.T.H. Lab as a proving ground for enterprises that want production-grade AI infrastructure tested inside real data center environments before committing to broader rollouts across hybrid, cloud, neocloud, on-premises and colocated estates globally.The move says something about where enterprise AI has landed after the first rush of pilots. The bottleneck is no longer only model access. It is infrastructure confidence. Can the customer run the workload near the right data? Can it keep control? Can the network handle it? Is the cooling there? [...]