Cloud Market Insights & Data

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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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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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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Google’s €5.5B Germany investment reshapes enterprise cloud and AI

Muhammad Zulhusni — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Google’s €5.5 billion plan to expand its presence in Germany is about more than new buildings and servers. Running from 2026 to 2029, the investment shows how global cloud and AI providers are starting to link technology growth with sustainability, workforce skills, and energy efficiency — priorities now central to how European enterprises plan and […]

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AWS rolls out new tool to simplify regional cloud planning

Muhammad Zulhusni — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Planning where to deploy workloads in the cloud can be tricky, especially for large companies that rely on consistent infrastructure across multiple regions. AWS is looking to take the guesswork out of that process with a new tool called Capabilities by Region. The tool gives users a clear view of which AWS services, tools, and […]

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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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Huawei Ascends to SuperPods and SuperClusters

Joe Green — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:30:25 +0000

At the Huawei Connect 2025 event in Shanghai last week, Chinese technology Huawei explained its plans for the next generations of its Ascend chip line, and released details on its deployment in pods, and world-leading compute clusters. Speaking at the Huawei Connect conference, deputy chair of Huawei board, Eric Xu, said 2025 had been a […]

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TechEx Europe 2025: Insights for data centre and cloud leaders

CloudTech News — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:14:18 +0000

On 24–25 September 2025, Amsterdam’s RAI will host TechEx Europe, a two-day gathering of more than 8,000 professionals and 250+ speakers in five co-located events: IoT Tech Expo, Cyber Security & Cloud Expo, AI & Big Data Expo, Digital Transformation Week, and Data Centre Expo. For those operating in the data centre and cloud ecosystem, […]

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Oracle’s $300B OpenAI deal lifts Ellison past Musk as the world’s richest person

Muhammad Zulhusni — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:58:26 +0000

Oracle’s stock jumped in value more than 40% on Wednesday, lifting the company’s share price to a record high and placing the company in striking distance of a trillion-dollar market value. The surge also sent Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison’s wealth soaring, narrowing the gap between him and Elon Musk in the contest to be the […]

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Alibaba plans US$3.17 billion note sale to fund cloud and AI buildout

Muhammad Zulhusni — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:57:36 +0000

Chinese tech firms are trying to raise cash as the fight for market share in AI heats up, and Alibaba is taking the lead. The e-commerce giant is seeking about US$3.17 billion through the sale of zero-coupon convertible notes, a deal set to be the largest of its kind this year. The notes, due in […]

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Alibaba unveils research on tools to cut outages and cloud costs

Muhammad Zulhusni — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 05:41:45 +0000

Alibaba says its new low-level software has reduced network outages, lowered load balancing costs, and improved SmartNIC performance by shifting workloads to underused infrastructure. As reported by The Register, the company outlined its results in three research papers it plans to present at the SIGCOMM conference next week. One of the papers introduces a system […]

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Huawei commits to train thousands of Malaysians, as country’s tech ecosystem grows

Dashveenjit Kaur — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 07:09:26 +0000

Malaysia’s race to build a homegrown AI workforce has entered a new phase with Huawei pledging to train 30,000 local professionals. The tech giant is expanding its commitment to growing the local AI ecosystem in the country. Its announcement comes as Malaysia develops its domestic, broad-reaching digital strategy framework Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo spoke […]

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