There is a reason hosting providers keep choosing Amsterdam. The city sits at a geographic crossroads that makes genuine sense for European infrastructure, close enough to the UK, Germany, and France that latency stays low across all three major markets simultaneously, while Dutch data protection frameworks give businesses one less regulatory headache to manage when handling customer data across borders. OnliveServer arrived at the same conclusion and launched its Netherlands dedicated server lineup from Amsterdam, targeting businesses that want European infrastructure without piecing together solutions across multiple providers. Read all
Not every software company is struggling to find its footing in the AI era. Atlassian just proved that point in a big way, with its stock surging more than 29% on Friday after the company posted third-quarter results that left Wall Street’s expectations well behind. Read all
When Iranian drones struck Amazon Web Services infrastructure across Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in early March, the damage cut far deeper than anyone initially expected. Nearly two months later, the world’s largest cloud provider is still picking up the pieces, and full restoration remains a distant target. Read all
Winning one category at the NAB Show Product of the Year Awards carries weight in the media technology industry. Winning two in the same year, in different categories covering different problems, signals something more than a single strong product cycle. Tencent Cloud took home awards in both the Streaming category and the Intelligent Technology category at the 2026 ceremony, with its DiT Video Quality Enhancement solution and Smart Erase tool recognized by an independent panel of industry experts across 16 competitive categories. Read all
Text-only AI agents have a ceiling that enterprise workflows hit quickly. Real business operations involve documents, images, audio recordings, and video alongside written communication, and agents that can only process one format at a time create bottlenecks rather than removing them. Vultr‘s deployment of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on its cloud platform addresses that limitation directly, giving developers cloud-based access to a multimodal model built specifically for enterprise agent systems that need to work across all those input types within a single task chain. Read all
Running software continuously has always required a certain kind of technical knowledge that most people simply do not have. Renting a server, configuring an operating system, managing credentials, writing deployment code: these were the steps that separated developers from everyone else when it came to building anything that needed to stay on around the clock. Manus is removing that barrier entirely with the launch of its Cloud Computer, a dedicated cloud machine that runs bots, scripts, databases, and automations continuously without requiring any technical setup from the person using it. Read all
Something unexpected is accelerating cloud migration, and it has nothing to do with digital transformation roadmaps or vendor persuasion. A global shortage of server memory, driven by AI infrastructure’s insatiable appetite for high-performance DRAM and high-bandwidth memory, is pushing enterprises toward cloud providers simply because they cannot secure enough on-premises hardware to run their own operations. Read all
Twenty-five years is a long time in any technology business, and considerably longer in web hosting, where consolidation has steadily reduced the number of independent operators across most markets. Hostpoint, founded in Rapperswil-Jona in spring 2001, marks that milestone this year as Switzerland’s largest web hosting provider and leading domain registrar, still fully owner-operated, still based in the same Swiss canton where it started. Read all
The global cloud market has crossed a threshold that would have seemed ambitious as a five-year projection just a few years ago. Synergy Research Group data puts Q1 2026 cloud service revenues at $129 billion, up $35 billion year on year, with a trailing 12-month total reaching $455 billion. The quarterly run rate now sits at $514 billion, meaning the industry crossed the half-trillion dollar mark in annualized terms for the first time. Read all
Running a small business has never been a desk-only job, but the expectation that it could be managed entirely from a phone is relatively new. GoDaddy‘s launch of its rebranded GoDaddy App reflects exactly that shift, pulling together its domains, website builder, email, marketing, and ecommerce tools under a single mobile identity rather than leaving entrepreneurs to navigate between separate products depending on what they need to do. Read all
Organizations running national infrastructure, regulated workloads, and mission-critical services have spent years navigating a tension that public cloud alone cannot resolve: the need for cloud-consistent infrastructure that never leaves the sovereign boundary. Microsoft‘s latest expansion of Azure Local addresses that directly, scaling the platform to support deployments of thousands of servers within a single sovereign environment, up from the hundreds it previously accommodated. Read all
Amazon Web Services is having quite a moment. During its Q1 FY2026 earnings call, CEO Andy Jassy revealed that AWS is now growing at its fastest rate in 15 quarters, with cloud revenue hitting $37.6 billion, a 28 percent jump year-on-year. That number did not happen in a vacuum. Read all
Catching up on Slack messages during a flight home from WordCamp Asia, Matt Mullenweg found a ten-day-old message about a disputed ticket involving Akismet and WordPress 7.0. What followed was not a quiet resolution. Mullenweg posted a wide-ranging critique in the core committers channel, described WordPress’s recent output as “boring or mediocre crap,” said “the wheels have fallen off” in terms of how the project operates, and then reversed a decision that core committers had already made, directing that Akismet appear on the WordPress 7.0 Connectors screen. Read all
