Cloud attackers are not waiting around. With AI sharpening their ability to breach environments and move between systems at speeds that traditional security tools were never designed to match, the gap between when an attack begins and when defenders notice has become genuinely costly. CrowdStrike addressed that gap directly at Google Cloud Next 2026 in Las Vegas, expanding its Cloud Detection and Response service to cover Google Cloud Platform alongside the AWS and Azure environments it already monitors. Read all
Cloud storage used to be the unglamorous part of the infrastructure conversation. Compute grabbed the headlines, the funding rounds, and the conference keynotes. Storage sat quietly in the background, necessary but rarely exciting. AI workloads are changing that calculation faster than most people expected, and Wasabi Technologies just secured $250 million in credit financing from Bain Capital’s Private Credit Group to position itself at the center of that shift. Read all
Quantum computing has a credibility problem that has nothing to do with the science. The technology works well enough in controlled settings, but for most businesses, it has never felt like something they could realistically touch. OVHcloud is chipping away at that gap by adding Quandela’s Belenos photonic quantum computer to its cloud Quantum Platform, with billing that runs pay-as-you-go rather than demanding long-term commitments or dedicated hardware investments. Read all
Packetra did not enter the hosting market quietly, but it also did not enter it loudly. Founded in 2025 and operating out of Finland and Switzerland, the company staked its early identity on something most providers stopped talking about years ago: telling customers exactly what they are buying before they buy it. Read all
There is a particular kind of loyalty that managed hosting companies earn slowly and lose quickly. Liquid Web built its reputation on exactly that kind of trust, high-touch support, reliable infrastructure, and a service culture that businesses running mission-critical workloads genuinely depended on. The company’s integration into Nexcess now raises a straightforward question that its customer base will be watching closely: does this make things better, or just bigger? Read all
Somewhere between the press release language and the staggering figures, a genuinely consequential shift is taking shape. Amazon agreed to invest up to $25 billion more into Anthropic, stacking on top of an earlier $8 billion commitment and pushing Anthropic’s valuation to $380 billion. The opening move is a $5 billion investment, with the remaining $20 billion tied to commercial milestones that give both companies real skin in how Claude actually performs once it reaches customers. Read all
Enterprises have had AI agent prototypes sitting in various stages of development long enough that the novelty has genuinely worn off. The harder question, and the one most organizations now quietly wrestle with, is how to push those prototypes into cloud hosting production without opening governance gaps that compliance teams and security leaders will flag on sight. Broadcom tackled that directly at a recent finance industry event, folding AI agents into VMware Cloud Foundation through a new Tanzu Platform agent foundations package. Read all
Cloud adoption moved faster than security coverage could follow. Most organizations spent the last several years shifting workloads to virtual machines across AWS, Azure, and GCP, while their security tools largely stayed focused on endpoints and on-premises servers. ESET is closing that gap with the launch of Cloud Workload Protection, a new module announced at RSAC 2026 and added to its ESET PROTECT Platform. Read all
Enterprise hosting has a fragmentation problem that vendor announcements rarely address honestly. Connectivity, cloud, compute, and colocation all come from different providers, run on different contracts, and interact in ways that architecture diagrams make look cleaner than they ever are in practice. Comcast Business is taking a direct run at that reality with the launch of a new innovation lab, unveiled at its 2026 analyst conference, built specifically around testing how distributed hosting infrastructure actually behaves when someone forces the pieces to work together. Read all
The industry announces, digests, and forgets most acquisitions within a news cycle. The Nexus IT purchase of New York-based managed services firm Imagis is different, not because of what the deal contains on its own, but because of what it represents as the tenth consecutive move in a deliberate national expansion strategy. Read all
Somewhere between the policy papers and the regulatory deadlines, European digital sovereignty stopped being an abstract ambition and started becoming a procurement requirement. OVHcloud and S2GRUPO noticed that shift early, and their new partnership reflects it directly, combining cloud infrastructure with operational cybersecurity in a way that answers the compliance questions European organizations now field during vendor selection, not just during audits. Read all
Deploying AI in production is hard enough. Managing the cloud infrastructure underneath it has become a separate job that most development teams never signed up for. Parasail, an AI compute startup, just closed a $32 million Series A to address exactly that friction, building what it describes as a global fabric that pools GPU capacity across multiple cloud providers and handles the optimization work automatically. Read all
For a long time, running advanced AI on classified or highly sensitive data meant accepting an uncomfortable trade-off: either connect to the cloud and compromise security, or stay isolated and miss out on the technology entirely. A four-year partnership between NetApp and Google Cloud, announced Friday, takes direct aim at that problem. Read all
