IBM just made two moves that enterprise IT teams have quietly been waiting for. The company launched Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud, two managed services built for businesses that finished experimenting with AI and now need it running reliably in production. Read all
Running separate infrastructure stacks for virtual machines and containerized workloads creates friction that compounds over time. Different management tools, different operational procedures, different failure modes to diagnose when something goes wrong. Telenet Business, which serves around 10,000 business customers across Belgium, reached a point where its legacy virtualization setup was creating enough of that friction to justify a significant infrastructure overhaul. The company rebuilt on Red Hat OpenShift, consolidating both VMs and containers onto a single platform running on bare metal across two regional Belgian data centers. Read all
Web hosting used to be a commodity purchase. You picked a provider based on price and uptime, pointed your domain at it, and got on with running your business. The problem is that the web no longer works that way. Site speed affects search rankings. Security affects customer trust. Hosting infrastructure choices affect whether a business competes effectively online or quietly falls behind. St. Louis Media, LLC recognized that shift and launched BestWebHost.co, a hosting platform built around the idea that the infrastructure underneath a website and the marketing strategy above it should work together rather than existing in separate conversations. Read all
Akamai had a week worth talking about. During its Q1 2026 earnings call, CEO Frank Thomson Leighton revealed that the company had closed the largest customer deal in its entire history, a seven-year commitment worth $1.8 billion for cloud infrastructure services from what he described only as a leading frontier model company. Bloomberg has since reported, citing a person with direct knowledge, that Anthropic sits behind that contract. Read all
Sovereign cloud has become one of the most talked-about concepts in enterprise technology over the past few years. Governments reference it in policy documents. Cloud vendors build entire product lines around it. Yet according to a Gartner VP analyst speaking in Sydney this week, most of what passes for sovereign cloud today is something considerably less than the name suggests. Read all
Right now, when an AI agent visits a website, the site owner has no reliable way of knowing who sent it, what it is allowed to do, or whether it is acting within any defined scope. It simply arrives, does something, and leaves. That ambiguity is not a minor inconvenience. It is quickly becoming one of the more pressing structural problems facing the web, and GoDaddy is moving aggressively to address it. Read all
Letting AI agents touch production infrastructure without a control layer sitting underneath is the kind of decision that looks reasonable in a demo and catastrophic six months later. CloudBolt‘s latest update to its cloud management platform addresses that tension directly, adding support for the Model Context Protocol while expanding the governance tools enterprises need before they can responsibly hand any operational task to an AI assistant. Read all
Shared hosting instability has a familiar pattern that most customers know well. The WordPress dashboard slows down, the database throws an error, and the site goes offline briefly before recovering. Support then tells you MySQL consumed too much memory, or a plugin misbehaved, or traffic spiked at the wrong moment. The server reboots, things stabilize, and everyone moves on without a clear answer. Read all
Data sovereignty has moved from a compliance checkbox to a genuine boardroom concern across Europe, and nowhere is that shift more visible right now than in Germany. Vodafone‘s new agreement with Amazon Web Services directly addresses that pressure, expanding cloud infrastructure services for German enterprises and public sector organizations while keeping all data stored and processed exclusively within the European Union. Read all
Enterprises have been spending heavily on cloud infrastructure for years. Teams sign contracts with hyperscalers, migrate workloads, and issue announcements. What rarely follows is the part where employees actually know how to run everything that just went live. Pluralsight is launching a new program called Cloud Ready that targets precisely that gap, arriving at a moment when the consequences of ignoring it are becoming harder for organizations to dismiss. Read all
Australian web hosting consolidation has been running for over a decade, and the customer experience that followed tells a consistent story. Brands that Australians once recognized and trusted, Melbourne IT, Webcentral, Crazy Domains, moved into larger corporate structures, often with overseas influence, and the quality of service that built those relationships gradually eroded. Support moved offshore. Pricing grew less transparent. Renewal costs crept upward. When something went wrong, getting someone on the phone who could actually fix it became genuinely difficult. Read all
Something significant is taking shape inside the European Commission, and the US cloud industry is watching closely. Officials familiar with internal discussions told CNBC that the Commission is preparing proposals that would restrict EU member governments from using US cloud providers to process sensitive public sector data. The formal unveiling comes through the Tech Sovereignty Package, expected on May 27, which bundles several measures aimed at reducing Europe’s digital dependence on non-European technology. Read all
Shared hosting has a ceiling, and most businesses find it at the worst possible time. Traffic spikes during a product launch. A database query takes twice as long as it should. A compliance audit flags concerns about where data actually lives and who else shares the same server environment. None of these moments arrive with much warning, and by the time they do, switching infrastructure under pressure is considerably harder than planning ahead. Read all
