In a recent development in the emerging partnership, Rad Web Hosting has announced its association with VPS benchmarks, an independent testing system used in the revealing of standardized data on the performance of VPS servers delivered by different service providers. This development marks the beginning of a new era of transparency in the business of offering Virtual Private Server hosting services. Read all
Hosting provider 20i has brought a new Singapore data center online, extending its autoscaling cloud platform across the Asia-Pacific region. Located in a Tier 3 Equinix facility, the site supports lower latency for markets including Southeast Asia, India, Japan, and Australia. The deployment strengthens regional resilience, improves traffic handling during demand spikes, and reflects growing investment in distributed cloud infrastructure. Read all
Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup has received a 2025 Cloud Computing Backup and Disaster Recovery Award, reflecting growing industry focus on stronger protection for SaaS data. The recognition highlights features such as immutable backups, granular recovery for Microsoft 365, and built-in malware checks, as organizations reassess whether traditional backup tools can keep pace with modern ransomware, insider risk, and compliance demands. Read all
Amazon Web Services finished 2025 with its best quarterly growth rate in over three years, driven by resurgent trends in enterprise migration activity and increasing AI workloads. In its fourth-quarter earnings report, Amazon said AWS generated $35.6 billion in revenue, up 24 percent year over year. That marked the unit’s fastest growth pace in 13 quarters and pushed its annualized revenue run rate to $142 billion. Read all
Alphabet closed 2025 with Google Cloud emerging as a key growth engine, as revenue jumped 48% to $17.7 billion on rising enterprise demand for AI infrastructure and core cloud services. The quarter underscored how deeply AI now shapes Google’s business, lifting Search usage, subscriptions, and YouTube revenue, while pushing total annual revenues past $400 billion for the first time. Read all
Your.Online has added another company to its portfolio of firms across Europe with the acquisition of Shellrent, an Italian domain registration and hosting provider offering cloud VPS and server services. The group signed the agreement in February, marking its third acquisition of the year and reinforcing its steady expansion across core digital infrastructure markets. Read all
i-exceed Technology Solutions has partnered with Broadcom to run its Appzillon digital banking platform on VMware Cloud Foundation, targeting banks modernising high-volume transaction systems. The setup pairs low-code, microservices-based banking applications with a Kubernetes-driven private cloud designed for compliance and resilience. The move reflects growing demand in India and abroad for scalable, cloud-native banking platforms that can handle real-time digital services without overhauling core infrastructure. Read all
Prosus has entered a three-year agreement with Amazon Web Services to consolidate its cloud and AI operations, aiming to cut costs while scaling internal AI development. The arrangement brings Prosus’s AI teams closer to AWS specialists as it rolls out AI agents across its portfolio. The company plans deeper AI expansion across Europe, India, and Latin America as part of its longer-term growth strategy. Read all
SUSE has released a new Cloud Sovereignty Self Assessment tool aimed at organisations across the Asia Pacific region that are navigating tighter expectations around data control, cloud governance, and the deployment of AI in regulated environments. The launch reflects a broader shift in how sovereignty requirements now shape procurement and compliance decisions rather than remaining abstract policy discussions. Read all
Commvault has rolled out Geo Shield, a new approach aimed at organizations facing strict data residency and sovereign cloud rules. The model lets customers choose where data lives and who controls encryption, spanning sovereign hyperscalers, partner-run clouds, or private deployments. Built for regulated sectors, Geo Shield focuses on jurisdictional control as compliance pressure tightens globally. Read all
Broken links have long shaped a quieter problem on the web, one that rarely draws headlines but steadily erodes context. This week, Automattic and the Internet Archive moved to address that issue directly with the release of a new WordPress plugin designed to preserve access to disappearing pages. Read all
Deutsche Telekom has expanded its T Cloud Public platform, aiming to offer a European cloud alternative aligned with EU data sovereignty goals. The company plans to match key hyperscaler features by 2026 while keeping data fully under European legal control. The move reflects growing demand from enterprises and governments for AI-ready cloud infrastructure without reliance on U.S. providers. Read all
Backblaze’s latest network data shows AI-focused neocloud providers driving a sharp rise in high-volume traffic through late 2025. Massive training and inference datasets now move in sustained bursts, concentrating activity near GPU-dense hubs on the US East Coast. This shift marks a clear break from traditional cloud traffic and points to a lasting realignment of storage, compute, and networking around AI workloads. Read all
