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EXA Infrastructure Acquires Aqua Comms, Expands Reach - 📅 - EXA Infrastructure has expanded its position in the global connectivity market with the completion of its acquisition of Aqua Comms, a move that significantly strengthens transatlantic and intra-European network capacity at a time of surging demand for data-intensive services.The deal enhances EXA Infrastructure's ability to deliver resilient, high-capacity connectivity between North America and Europe, a critical requirement for cloud platforms, content providers, carriers, and enterprises scaling artificial intelligence workloads.
London-based EXA Infrastructure, a portfolio company of I Squared Capital, already operates more than 160,000 kilometers of digital infrastructure. This [...]
Hybrid Cloud Security: Risks, Realities, and Best Practices - 📅 - As digital transformation accelerates, hybrid cloud architectures have emerged as a dominant enterprise model. By combining on-premises systems with public and private cloud services, organizations seek flexibility, scalability, and control. However, this architectural shift also introduces complex security challenges, drawing increasing scrutiny from boards, CISOs, and regulators worldwide.
Driven by shifting customer geographies, increasing regulatory scrutiny, expanding data volumes, and heightened exposure to cyber and operational risks, organizations are reassessing how securely their hybrid cloud environments are designed and managed.
What has emerged is a consensus among security [...]
Driven by shifting customer geographies, increasing regulatory scrutiny, expanding data volumes, and heightened exposure to cyber and operational risks, organizations are reassessing how securely their hybrid cloud environments are designed and managed.
What has emerged is a consensus among security [...]
Revolutionizing Business Networks with Software-Defined Strategy - 📅 - What began as an academic concept to decouple network control from hardware has become a foundational strategy for enterprises grappling with scale, security, and speed. For CIOs and IT leaders navigating hybrid workforces, cloud sprawl, and relentless cyber risk, software-defined networking (SDN) is no longer a future bet - it is an operational imperative reshaping how business networks are designed, secured, and managed.At its core, SDN separates the control plane - the logic that decides where traffic should go - from the data plane that actually moves packets. This architectural shift allows networks to be programmed centrally, dynamically, and consistently.
The implications extend [...]
Revolutionizing Business Networks with Software-Defined Strategy - 📅 - What began as an academic concept to decouple network control from hardware has become a foundational strategy for enterprises grappling with scale, security, and speed. For CIOs and IT leaders navigating hybrid workforces, cloud sprawl, and relentless cyber risk, software-defined networking (SDN) is no longer a future bet - it is an operational imperative reshaping how business networks are designed, secured, and managed.At its core, SDN separates the control plane - the logic that decides where traffic should go - from the data plane that actually moves packets. This architectural shift allows networks to be programmed centrally, dynamically, and consistently.
The implications extend [...]
Data Center Migration: How Organizations Can Move Without Risk - 📅 - Data center migration can become one of the most consequential infrastructure decisions organizations can make. While the idea of moving an entire data center can appear daunting, for some companies, staying put might pose a greater long-term risk than relocating. Something that may be driven by shifts in customer geography, advances in technology, increasing compliance requirements, or growing exposure to climate and operational risks.
A data center migration involves transferring applications, data, and physical or virtual infrastructure from one facility to another. The complexity of that process depends on several factors, including how much hardware is owned, how workloads are [...]
A data center migration involves transferring applications, data, and physical or virtual infrastructure from one facility to another. The complexity of that process depends on several factors, including how much hardware is owned, how workloads are [...]
Polish Hosting Firm Cyber_Folks Builds EU eCommerce Giant - 📅 - Cyber_Folks, a Polish technology group best known as a hosting and infrastructure provider, is reshaping the European eCommerce software landscape through a complex acquisition strategy that brings together some of the continent's most influential open-source commerce platforms.Acting through a newly formed holding entity called Cyber_Pixel, the group has acquired PrestaShop alongside Sylius and its long-time implementation partner BitBag, setting the stage for what executives describe as a pan-European open-source eCommerce powerhouse.
The transaction marks the second ownership change for PrestaShop in less than five years. The France-based platform, which powers more than 230,000 [...]
Applied Digital, EKSO Plan AI-Focused ChronoScale Spinoff - 📅 - Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD) and EKSO Bionics Holdings (Nasdaq: EKSO) have outlined plans for a proposed business combination that reflects the accelerating shift toward specialized infrastructure for artificial intelligence workloads.
The companies disclosed that they have entered into a non-binding term sheet to combine Applied Digital's cloud computing unit, Applied Digital Cloud, with EKSO. If completed, the combined entity would operate under the name ChronoScale Corporation, positioning itself as a focused provider of GPU-accelerated cloud infrastructure designed specifically for AI-driven use cases.
The proposed transaction comes as enterprises and AI-native organizations face [...]
The companies disclosed that they have entered into a non-binding term sheet to combine Applied Digital's cloud computing unit, Applied Digital Cloud, with EKSO. If completed, the combined entity would operate under the name ChronoScale Corporation, positioning itself as a focused provider of GPU-accelerated cloud infrastructure designed specifically for AI-driven use cases.
The proposed transaction comes as enterprises and AI-native organizations face [...]
CNCF Adds 12 Silver Members as Demand for Observability Grows - 📅 - The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has expanded its Silver Membership roster with the addition of 12 new companies, signaling continued momentum behind cloud native technologies as enterprises grapple with rising complexity, distributed infrastructure, and the operational demands of artificial intelligence.
The move reflects how cloud native tooling has shifted from an emerging architecture choice to a foundational layer for modern IT strategies across industries.
CNCF, which operates under The Linux Foundation, plays a central role in stewarding open source projects such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. These technologies have become core components of enterprise platforms, [...]
The move reflects how cloud native tooling has shifted from an emerging architecture choice to a foundational layer for modern IT strategies across industries.
CNCF, which operates under The Linux Foundation, plays a central role in stewarding open source projects such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. These technologies have become core components of enterprise platforms, [...]
Hosted.com Issues Advisory: Rising Prompt Injection Attacks & Prevention Methods - 📅 - Prompt injection attacks happen when malicious instructions are embedded in user input or external data sources, causing an AI model to override its original settings and bypass built-in safety guardrails. These attacks can lead to data breaches, unauthorized actions, phishing attempts, malware generation, and crashed websites. Hosted.com reported that this increase has created new vulnerabilities for businesses that use AI in their websites or backend systems for communication, analytics, and automation. By issuing this advisory, the company aims to ensure that customers understand both the risks involved and how to mitigate them.
Hosted.com's infrastructure includes built-in features [...]
How to Choose the Right Colocation Data Center for Long-Term Growth - 📅 - For many organizations, co-locating IT equipment in a third-party data center offers a way to reduce capital expenditure, improve resilience, and shift internal focus toward innovation rather than infrastructure management. Yet the benefits of colocation are only realized when the chosen facility aligns closely with a company's technical, operational, and strategic requirements.
Industry analysts note that while colocation adoption continues to rise globally, mismatched expectations between customers and data center providers remain a frequent source of operational friction.
The challenge for decision-makers is not whether to use a data center, but how to select the right one in an [...]
Industry analysts note that while colocation adoption continues to rise globally, mismatched expectations between customers and data center providers remain a frequent source of operational friction.
The challenge for decision-makers is not whether to use a data center, but how to select the right one in an [...]