Cloud Computing

Lumen advances cloud networking vision with $475M Alkira buy

Lumen’s existing NaaS provides connectivity between on-premises environments and cloud providers, or north-south traffic. Alkira addresses east-west traffic, which moves between clouds and between data centers.

Broadcom bets big on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

Upgrade described as an attempt to move private cloud platform up the stack and become a ‘governed control surface for production AI.’

Memory shortage and cost surge push enterprises toward the cloud

With on-prem deployments becoming costlier and slower to scale, cloud is emerging as the faster alternative.

Deconstructing the data center: A massive (and massively liberating) project

As far as unheralded IT undertakings go, decommissioning a data center still sits atop most CIOs’ list. Yet the complex work involved — down to returning a building to its original state — remains the most organizationally redefining.

An “Unstoppable Web” is a reality that Tether is orchestrating

Meta's compute grab continues with agreement to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores

The company is assembling a multi-architecture stack spanning AWS, Nvidia, AMD, Arm, and its own silicon. In the agentic era, no single chip wins, so it’s betting on all of them.

SUSE bets automated migration can break VMware's grip on virtualization

SUSE and Cloudbase promise zero-downtime migrations off VMware, but whether enterprises are ready to move is another question.