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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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ICE03 epitomises the potential of a circular economy for data centres

Joe Green — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:29:27 +0000

Iceland’s atNorth has won a Data Center Dynamics award for Environmental impact for its work in reducing the environmental impact of data centre operations. The company’s expansion of its ICE03 data centre in Akureyri, Iceland, won for its design, the judges noting the social and economic impact and of the facility and its role in […]

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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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Onsite virtualisation with Nexsan Unity and Vates VMS

Joe Green — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:57:02 +0000

For enterprises seeking sovereign control over their data, the combination of Nexsan Unity enterprise storage and Vates Virtualization Management Stack (VMS) might present an alternative to proprietary virtualisation and storage solutions. The new joint platform is designed for deploying virtualised workloads on-premise or in wholly-owned data centres. Why consider onsite hosting? Since the change in […]

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Amazon and Google team up to cut multicloud downtime

Muhammad Zulhusni — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000

A new multicloud networking service built by Amazon and Google is now available, giving companies a faster way to link the two tech giants’ cloud platforms at a time when even short internet outages can disrupt major online services. The system lets customers set up private, high-speed connections between AWS and Google Cloud in minutes […]

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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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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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How configuration management can become an asset for enterprises

Cloud Tech — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:18:39 +0000

Configuration has become an invisible yet dramatic risk for today’s enterprises rolling-out large technology platforms. From airline system outages to data exposure incidents, small misconfigurations can now trigger multi-million-dollar losses. As enterprises integrate AI models, microservices, API connections, and increasingly, autonomous agents into their operational fabric, the risks multiply. There is a need for configuration […]

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Alibaba brings Nvidia’s AI robotics tools to its cloud

Muhammad Zulhusni — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Alibaba and Nvidia have teamed up again, expanding their collaboration in AI and robotics. The two companies announced at the Apsara Conference in Hangzhou that Nvidia’s embodied AI tools will be integrated into Alibaba Cloud’s machine learning platform. The move gives developers access to Nvidia’s toolkit for building AI systems that interact with the physical […]

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Broadcom updates VMware platform to streamline private cloud operations

Muhammad Zulhusni — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 07:52:58 +0000

Broadcom has made VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 generally available, rolling out updates aimed at making private cloud setups easier to manage. VCF 9.0 introduces a modular design that adds automation and API access into cost and performance. Broadcom says the goal is for private clouds to work more like public ones – easier to […]

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