Cloud Vendor Strategies & Leadership

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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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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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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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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Alphabet surpasses Q2 revenue and profit expectations amid robust ad demand

Muhammad Zulhusni — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:10:25 +0000

Alphabet beat second-quarter revenue and profit estimates on Tuesday, according to a leading tech market analyst. The company’s performance was driven by a rise in digital advertising sales and healthy demand for its cloud computing services, though it cautioned that capital expenses would remain high for the year. Reuters reported that the popularity of the […]

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Supermicro’s redemption play: Can new leadership save the AI server specialist?

Dashveenjit Kaur — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:19:08 +0000

After months of governance scandals that saw its auditor resign and major clients flee to competitors, Supermicro is betting everything on a redemption play centred around new leadership appointments and cutting-edge technology. The AI server specialist has installed a new CFO, Chief Compliance Officer, and Chief Accounting Officer and launched an ambitious product line – […]

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