Cloud Industry Announcements & Analysis

Aumovio turns to cloud computing to scale autonomous vehicle testing

Muhammad Zulhusni — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Building autonomous vehicles is no longer just a question of sensors and software. It has become a test of how well companies can manage vast amounts of data, run large-scale simulations, and validate safety across millions of scenarios before a vehicle ever reaches the road. For automotive firms working on self-driving systems, the ability to […]

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Brookfield’s cloud business signals a shift beyond hyperscalers

Muhammad Zulhusni — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000

The cloud market is shaped by a familiar group of hyperscalers. What is changing now is not who runs cloud platforms, but who is building the infrastructure behind them. Recent reporting that Brookfield Asset Management is preparing to launch a cloud business points to a change in how large enterprises could source compute in the […]

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From on-demand to live: how Netflix adjusted its cloud operations

Muhammad Zulhusni — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Live video changes the pressure on a streaming business. Unlike on-demand shows, live events do not allow for retries, quiet fixes, or delayed updates. If something fails, viewers notice immediately. Over the past year, Netflix has been reworking how it handles that risk by building live streaming directly into its core cloud systems, rather than […]

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Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks sign deal worth nearly $10 billion

Muhammad Zulhusni — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Google Cloud has agreed to a multiyear security services partnership with Palo Alto Networks as enterprise use of AI in cloud environments grows. A source told Reuters the deal is worth close to $10 billion over its lifetime. The agreement marks Google Cloud’s largest security services deal to date. While financial terms were not disclosed […]

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Why Nutanix sees sovereign cloud changing

Muhammad Zulhusni — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

For years, sovereign cloud discussions have focused on geography. Data had to stay inside a country, infrastructure had to sit in defined borders, and control was assumed to follow location. But that model is starting to break down. AI workloads, distributed applications, and stricter oversight rules are pushing organisations to rethink what sovereignty actually means […]

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IBM moves to buy Confluent in an $11 billion cloud and AI deal

Muhammad Zulhusni — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000

IBM plans to buy Confluent in an $11 billion deal, a move that expands its data and cloud portfolio as demand for AI systems grows. The company has been building up its cloud and software units under CEO Arvind Krishna, who has focused on acquisitions to meet interest from clients upgrading their systems for more […]

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Veeam and HPE introduce updates to streamline hybrid cloud recovery

Muhammad Zulhusni — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000

HPE and Veeam are taking their long-running partnership into a new phase, rolling out updates aimed at helping enterprises protect and restore data in mixed and hybrid cloud environments. The shift comes as many firms are trying to manage older systems, virtual machines, and container platforms while also dealing with higher security demands. John Jester, […]

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AWS plans major AI and supercomputing expansion for US government

Muhammad Zulhusni — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:15:00 +0000

The US government is to gain access to new AI and high-performance computing tools as AWS prepares a major expansion of its secure cloud systems. The company plans to invest up to $50 billion starting in 2026 to build out AI and supercomputing capacity in its Top Secret, Secret, and GovCloud regions. The buildout will […]

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Google Cloud wins new NATO contract for sovereign cloud services

Muhammad Zulhusni — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Google Cloud has picked up another major contract to deliver secure, sovereign cloud services to a military agency, only a few months after it signed a similar deal with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). The agreement will see the Nato Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) use Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), an air-gapped system built […]

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Payments resilience playbook: building future-ready systems

CloudTech News — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:42:36 +0000

Resilience used to mean a disaster recovery document in a drawer and a secondary data centre on standby. But new payment methods, rising fraud, tougher regulation, and global expansion plans mean that resilience now depends on payment systems that can flex, reroute, and recover without sacrificing performance or compliance. Done well, resilience becomes a growth […]

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Managing AI-era cloud storage costs with Datadog

Muhammad Zulhusni — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:41:00 +0000

The growing use of AI is driving up cloud storage costs as enterprises struggle to track what data they’re storing, why it’s kept, and how to manage it efficiently. To help address this, Datadog has launched Storage Management, now generally available for Amazon S3 and in preview for Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage. […]

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Google expands in Belgium and faces US AI antitrust scrutiny

Muhammad Zulhusni — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Google is investing another €5 billion in Belgium over the next two years to boost its cloud and AI infrastructure. That effort includes expanding its data centre locations in Saint-Ghislain and creating 300 new full-time jobs. At the same time, it’s inked deals with Eneco, Luminus, and Renner to help develop onshore wind farms and […]

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