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OVHcloud Opens Auckland Local Zone For Sovereign Cloud - 📅 - French cloud provider OVHcloud has opened its first Asia Pacific Local Zone in Auckland through a partnership with Datacentre220, extending low-latency public cloud services into New Zealand as sovereignty concerns reshape infrastructure decisions. The deployment gives regional organizations local data residency options while reducing latency for workloads previously dependent on Australian or broader international cloud infrastructure and connectivity routes.For OVHcloud, the Auckland launch is less about entering another cloud market and more about positioning itself inside the growing debate around digital sovereignty, data locality, and infrastructure independence.
The company [...]
VMware Customers Discover No Easy Exit Strategy - 📅 - VMware customers weighing an exit are running into a harder reality: the VMware replacement market is fragmented, migration risk is high, and no obvious successor has emerged. In a recent r/vmware discussion on Reddit, administrators compared moves to Hyper-V, Proxmox, Nutanix, OpenShift Virtualization, XCP-ng, CloudStack, KVM, and other stacks - with licensing, storage, support, and skills shaping most decisions.
The Reddit poll was not scientific. It had 57 upvotes and 180 comments. Still, it captured something vendors keep trying to simplify and buyers keep discovering the hard way: replacing VMware is not mainly about choosing a hypervisor.
It is about recreating years of operational [...]
The Reddit poll was not scientific. It had 57 upvotes and 180 comments. Still, it captured something vendors keep trying to simplify and buyers keep discovering the hard way: replacing VMware is not mainly about choosing a hypervisor.
It is about recreating years of operational [...]
IREN Buys Spanish Data Center Developer For Europe Expansion - 📅 - IREN is buying Spanish developer Ingenostrum, known as Nostrum Group, in a deal that gives the Australian infrastructure company an immediate foothold in Europe's fast-heating AI data center market. The acquisition adds roughly 490MW of secured grid-connected capacity in Spain and lifts IREN's broader power portfolio to 5GW, as operators scramble for energy, land, and permitting pathways.
The timing is difficult to ignore. AI infrastructure demand is rising faster than power networks can comfortably absorb, particularly across major European markets where hyperscalers and cloud providers are already competing aggressively for capacity. Spain, until recently treated as a secondary market [...]
The timing is difficult to ignore. AI infrastructure demand is rising faster than power networks can comfortably absorb, particularly across major European markets where hyperscalers and cloud providers are already competing aggressively for capacity. Spain, until recently treated as a secondary market [...]
Digital Realty Accelerates Global Data Center Workforce Training - 📅 - The race to build data centers fast enough for AI demand is exposing a less glamorous problem: there are not enough people to run them. Digital Realty, one of the world's largest data center operators, is now widening its hiring funnel through a partnership with DCD Academy, aiming to train workers with little or no technical background for operational roles across its facilities worldwide today.Digital Realty is effectively acknowledging what much of the industry has been reluctant to say publicly for years. The traditional hiring model for data center operations is no longer scaling. Demand for cloud infrastructure keeps climbing, hyperscalers continue locking in capacity, and [...]
RETN Expands Eastern Europe Fiber Route Through Romania - 📅 - RETN has launched a new backbone network route stretching across Romania into Moldova, adding another physical connectivity corridor through a region where telecom resilience has become increasingly strategic. The route links Drobeta, Bucharest, Iași, and Chișinău as a continuous backbone path, creating an alternative traffic route for operators and enterprises moving data across Eastern Europe and surrounding markets today.The new infrastructure also connects into RETN's existing Balkans corridor running through Budapest, Timișoara, and Sofia. On paper, that sounds like another regional fiber expansion announcement. In practice, it reflects something larger happening across Eastern [...]
Pluralsight Launches Cloud Ready Training To Build AI-Ready Teams - 📅 - Pluralsight is rolling out a new enterprise training program aimed at companies discovering that cloud spending alone does not automatically create usable AI infrastructure. The timing is notable. Enterprises are still pouring money into cloud modernization projects while quietly struggling with a much simpler issue - too few employees actually know how to operate, optimize, or secure increasingly complex cloud environments at enterprise scale today.
The company's new offering, called Cloud Ready, combines assessments, labs, instructor-led courses, certification preparation, and sandbox environments into a structured workforce readiness program focused on cloud operations and AI [...]
The company's new offering, called Cloud Ready, combines assessments, labs, instructor-led courses, certification preparation, and sandbox environments into a structured workforce readiness program focused on cloud operations and AI [...]
BT International Expands EU Sovereign Cloud Access With STACKIT - 📅 - BT International is linking its global network infrastructure with STACKIT's sovereign cloud platform, giving multinational companies a new way to access EU-based cloud environments without routing everything across the public internet. The agreement lands as European regulators intensify scrutiny over where enterprise data resides, who can access it, and how cloud dependencies behave during geopolitical disruptions and infrastructure failures worldwide today.
For BT, the partnership extends its attempt to position Global Fabric as more than another connectivity layer attached to hyperscalers. For STACKIT, owned by Schwarz Digits, the arrangement expands the reach of a cloud platform that [...]
For BT, the partnership extends its attempt to position Global Fabric as more than another connectivity layer attached to hyperscalers. For STACKIT, owned by Schwarz Digits, the arrangement expands the reach of a cloud platform that [...]
Rackspace And AMD Develop Governed Enterprise AI Platform - 📅 - Rackspace Technology and AMD are sketching out a longer-term attempt to reshape enterprise AI infrastructure around governance, dedicated compute, and operational accountability, rather than the increasingly chaotic market for rented GPU access. The two companies signed a multiyear strategic partnership framework this week centered on managed AI infrastructure aimed at regulated industries and sovereignty-sensitive workloads globally.Rackspace and AMD are effectively trying to capitalize on a growing frustration inside enterprise AI deployments. Companies can access GPU infrastructure almost anywhere now, assuming they can afford it. Running those systems in production environments [...]
NVIDIA Awards IREN $3.4bn AI Cloud Services Contract - 📅 - IREN has secured a five-year AI cloud infrastructure agreement worth roughly $3.4 billion from NVIDIA, handing the Australian data center operator a far larger role inside the AI supply chain. The deal centers on managed GPU services running from IREN's Texas campus, where new Blackwell systems will support NVIDIA's internal research and artificial intelligence workloads over time.
For IREN, the contract changes the conversation around the company almost immediately. Until recently, the business was still largely associated with Bitcoin mining infrastructure and power-heavy compute operations tied to crypto markets. Now NVIDIA is effectively validating IREN as an AI infrastructure [...]
For IREN, the contract changes the conversation around the company almost immediately. Until recently, the business was still largely associated with Bitcoin mining infrastructure and power-heavy compute operations tied to crypto markets. Now NVIDIA is effectively validating IREN as an AI infrastructure [...]
NorthC Fire Under Control as Recovery Work Begins - 📅 - Firefighters in the Netherlands spent Thursday battling a major blaze inside NorthC's Almere data center, an incident that disrupted regional services, triggered public health alerts, and exposed how vulnerable critical digital infrastructure remains when backup power systems fail. By late evening, authorities had stabilized the scene, although engineers still could not safely enter heavily damaged sections inside.The fire began around 8:30 Thursday morning in a technical room housing emergency power equipment, according to regional emergency authorities. Smoke spread quickly enough to trigger an NL-Alert warning residents to shut windows, close doors, and disable ventilation systems. [...]