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AI Is Turning Unified Storage Into A Strategic Decision
Unified storage has long been treated as a pragmatic, commodity storage investment: Balance cost, simplify operations, move on. In a world of AI enablement and, consequently, downside AI risk, that mindset no longer holds. Agentic, autonomous AI use cases are making storage a strategic decision point to address capability needs, performance requirements, and GRC concerns. AI systems increasingly operate directly on live enterprise data, […]
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SUSECON 2026: From Open Infrastructure To Operational Sovereignty
SUSECON 2026 in Prague marked a clear advance on the platform pillars SUSE introduced a year earlier in Orlando — and a more forceful articulation of its choice narrative. SUSE argued that choice only matters if it can be operationalized: enabling sovereign workload control and resilience not just to technical failure but to economic and […]
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Google Cloud Next 2026: The End Of The AI Pilot Era
Google Cloud Next 2026 opened with Thomas Kurian declaring the end of the AI pilot era and Sundar Pichai comparing the enterprise refrain of last year (“Can we build an agent?”) to today’s: “How do we manage thousands of them?” Google Cloud Next ’26 answers the second question with a single product story: Gemini Enterprise […]
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KubeCon Europe 2026: The Not-So-Unseen Engine Behind AI Innovation?
At KubeCon Europe 2026, Kubernetes’ AI story shifted from “add support” to “rebuild the platform.” AI conformance, upstream GPU orchestration, shared inference blueprints, and in-platform governance are setting the new defaults.
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Data Centers, Semiconductors, And Sovereignty: The Upcoming AI Divide
What Is The AI Divide In Data Centers, Semiconductors, And Sovereignty? The AI divide represents a strategic inflection point for global business. Those without these resources will fall behind, not just technologically but competitively. Productivity, customer engagement, and decision-making is widening across industries and geographies, creating systemic issues for companies that fail to invest, such as: […]
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Revisiting Our 2025 Cloud Predictions: Hits, Misses, And Lessons
Predictions are a tough sport to play. If you get them all right, you played it safe by recapping existing trends or gave wishy-washy statements that are hard to verify. If you got them all wrong, you likely went for the headlines with little accountability on those claims. Every year, we try to find that […]
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What We Saw At AWS re:Invent 2025
The goal of this year’s event was to position AWS as a newly transformed, AI-native cloud that’s ready right now. Here’s a closer look at the key announcements and developments.
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KubeCon North America 2025 Retrospective: Closed Source And Open Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud
The 10th anniversary of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta was both a celebration of progress in the open-source community and a moment of reflection about the challenges facing that same community amid change.
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Cloudflare’s Outage: Another Wake-Up Call For Cloud Resilience
Some of the biggest online platforms in the world were recently knocked offline by an automatically generated configuration file that grew too large. In a world plagued by security threats, operational failures can still happen even in your favorite cloud service. Find out why and how to reduce your risk.
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Predictions 2026: Cloud Outages, Private AI On Private Clouds, And The Rise Of The Neoclouds
Cloud in 2026 will be defined by two major races: the hyperscaler race to build AI-native cloud infrastructure and the enterprise race to craft meaningful AI strategies. Our predictions break those down.
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AWS Outage, Safety On Meta, ChatGPT’s AI-First Browser
Recently, a very bad day for AWS became everyone else’s very annoying day. And while the disruption was fairly short-lived, there are longer-term lessons to be learned. In this episode, we look at the lessons from the recent AWS outage as well as an overdue step by a social media giant and a reimagining of how we access information on the web.
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Oracle AI World 2025: The First Look Under New Command
Get key takeaways from Oracle's newly renamed annual conference, the first with new CEOs Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia at the helm.
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The AWS US-East Outage: A Wake-Up Call For Cloud Resilience
The fourth outage in five years for AWS’s US-East region was traced to DNS resolution failures that affected many core services. Find out what you should do from both the technology and the supplier risk management side to improve your cloud resilience.
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Developer-Led Growth Meets Enterprise-Grade Security And Distributed Infrastructure At Cloudflare Connect 2025
Cloudflare Connect 2025 had a distinctly optimistic vibe as the vendor positions itself as the connective tissue for modern digital operations in the enterprise and showcases its AI security abilities. Learn more in this event review.
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VMware Explore Paris 2025: Our Take On Private AI And Private Cloud Sovereignty
VMware Explore’s 2025 Paris event showcased the future of VMware Private AI and cloud sovereignty with the launch of VCF 9.0. From sovereign AI use cases to disconnected cloud operations, the event highlighted VMware’s evolving role in enabling secure, compliant infrastructure across Europe.
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Accelerating Formula 1 Innovation With AWS And AI-Native Cloud
Learn how AWS’s AI-native cloud is helping Formula 1 improve both racing and fan experiences by providing real-time race analytics and supporting advanced aerodynamic simulations for car design.
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Announcing Our Top 10 Cloud Trends For 2025
Cloud used to be a sleepy space but not anymore. Today, the top cloud trends are the top business trends. Learn three of the top 10 cloud trends for 2025 in this preview of a new report.
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What To Expect At KubeCon North America 2025
Kubernetes is evolving from a cloud-native foundation to an AI-native enabler. Get a preview of what to expect at the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 event in Atlanta on November 10–13.
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Are You Ready To Rethink How You Manage Tech Spend?
According to Forrester’s Priorities Survey, 2025, almost 30% of enterprises exceeded their IT budgets in 2024, indicating a strategic failure beyond mere budgeting issues. Find out how high-performance IT organizations are merging FinOps and IT finance to manage technology spend more effectively.
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Minimum Viable Sovereignty: A Smarter Path For Tech Leaders
Sovereignty is no longer optional. Geopolitical tensions, tariffs, and regulatory pressures have made digital sovereignty a permanent concern for tech leaders. But chasing full sovereignty across your IT stack can lead to decision paralysis, ballooning costs, and operational complexity. Instead, organizations should aim for what Forrester calls minimum viable sovereignty — a pragmatic, risk-based approach […]
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