For more than two weeks, customers of Swiss hosting provider Webland have been dealing with a wave of service disruptions that has left many without functioning websites or email. While individual services have begun to return, the overall recovery has moved slowly, and frustration is now spreading beyond affected businesses to industry observers who view the outage as unusually long for a hosting company of Webland’s size. Read all
Microsoft has mapped out a $17.5 billion investment in India as it tries to anchor itself in the country’s fast-rising AI landscape. Satya Nadella outlined the plan after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, framing the move as a step toward building India’s own sovereign AI infrastructure. With hyperscale facilities slated to go live in 2026, the push comes as global AI leaders converge on India, drawn by its talent pool and expanding digital ambitions. Read all
The company Hostinger is now officially in Nigeria and is offering a bundle of services which includes different types of hosting, payments in the local currency, and AI-powered tools for small businesses that want to grow online but are not quite sure how to do it. The move comes at a time when the country’s digital activity is growing quickly, yet many entrepreneurs continue to hit familiar roadblocks involving technical skills, unreliable connections, and the cost of building a proper website. Read all
CoreWeave is leaning further into the debt markets as it ramps its AI infrastructure buildout, expanding its planned convertible notes offering to $2.25 billion after stronger-than-expected demand. The notes, due 2031, add to a year marked by aggressive financing moves, including $14 billion in combined debt and equity. Proceeds will partly support capped-call transactions, with the remainder directed toward broader corporate needs as the company maintains its rapid expansion pace. Read all
XLC is raising the stakes in the bare-metal hosting space with a major bandwidth lift and sharper China-bound routing. U.S. servers now ship with 2Gbps global bandwidth, giving fast-growing workloads more breathing room. At the same time, the company doubled its CN2 capacity and introduced a 500Mbps China route, a move aimed at businesses that depend on stable, low-latency links across one of the world’s toughest network corridors. Read all
IBM’s latest acquisition effort is steering the company deeper into the data movement race that has grown central to modern AI systems. In an agreement valued at eleven billion dollars, IBM plans to buy Confluent, a firm known for technology that manages large volumes of data as it moves through enterprise systems in real time. The deal signals a shift toward tighter control of the data pipelines that feed emerging AI workloads, a priority that has gained urgency as businesses push to modernize their infrastructure. Read all
Zilliz is tightening its partnership with AWS as vector databases rapidly shift from niche tooling to core AI infrastructure. The company is leaning on AWS to speed global expansion, streamline model integration, and handle the growing pressure of unstructured data workloads. The collaboration also deepens security and compliance coverage, giving Zilliz room to scale as organizations push retrieval-heavy and agentic AI systems into production. Read all
CloudLinux is taking a notable step beyond its infrastructure roots with a new investment in Seahawk, a company that works behind the scenes for hosting providers to support and repair WordPress sites under a white label model. The move reflects a shift that many providers have been navigating quietly for years. Servers are only part of the story. When a customer’s website slows down, is compromised, or breaks during an update, the frustration is usually directed at the hosting company, regardless of where the issue originated. Read all
New data from Credence Research shows enterprises shifting toward Quantum-Computing-as-a-Service as they brace for the next wave of computing. Instead of investing in fragile in-house hardware, companies are turning to cloud access to test algorithms, build skills, and run early hybrid workloads. The report suggests QCaaS is quietly becoming the gateway to future quantum infrastructure, with adoption rising fastest in finance, pharma, logistics, and government programs. Read all
BNY is expanding its AI push by bringing Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise into its Eliza platform, giving employees new tools to break down complex financial data at speed. Teams can now build AI agents that read reports, compare market trends, and handle time-consuming research tasks. By strengthening Eliza’s multimodal and reasoning capabilities, BNY aims to shift everyday work toward deeper analysis and more informed decision-making across the firm. Read all
PerfectlyHost, a new web hosting provider founded by Akhand Prakash Saxena, is stepping into a crowded market with an approach shaped around straightforward reliability rather than glossy marketing. The company, based in the United States, is targeting freelancers, small businesses, and developers who want predictable performance without feeling locked into complicated pricing structures. Read all
Micron’s move to retire its Crucial consumer memory line marks a deeper shift in the hardware market, as soaring AI and data-center demand pulls supply away from everyday RAM and SSDs. With major cloud and AI players already stockpiling components, smaller hosting providers may face tighter inventories and rising costs. The shift hints at a widening gap in hardware access—and a cloud infrastructure market bracing for a new era of scarcity. Read all
In Singapore, Digital Realty extends its partnership with Oracle by introducing an additional OCI FastConnect point-of-presence that locates the regional companies a new way to connect to Oracle Cloud. The move arrives at a moment when demand for reliable routes into cloud platforms is rising sharply, especially among teams building hybrid and AI-focused systems that require consistency rather than guesswork. Read all
