Not every acquisition is about adding infrastructure. When HostPapa announced the completion of its purchase of Tailor Made Servers on April 17, the headline asset was not a new data center or a fresh rack of hardware. It was a customer base that has stayed put for over two decades, with some tenants running on TMS iron for more than ten years without leaving. Read all
Europe has made its position on cloud dependency fairly clear, and this week it put real money behind it. The European Commission awarded a $212 million sovereign cloud services tender to four European providers, covering a six-year period and spanning more than 40 EU agencies. The decision lands as part of a broader institutional effort to reduce reliance on non-European technology across critical digital infrastructure. Read all
Multicloud was never supposed to be this messy. Enterprises ended up spreading workloads across different cloud providers, sometimes by design, often just by accident, and the networking headaches that followed became a familiar story for IT teams. Oracle and AWS are now moving to address that directly, linking their respective interconnect services to create private, managed connectivity between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and AWS environments. Read all
When Anthropic quietly released Claude Managed Agents on April 8, 2026, the ripple hit places most people were not watching. Four days later, Cloudflare dropped 11 percent, Fastly fell 18 percent, Akamai lost 13 percent, and DigitalOcean slid 13.4 percent in a single trading session. For companies that had spent the better part of a year building their AI agent infrastructure story, that kind of market reaction says quite a bit. Read all
Cloud security has long had a blind spot. Infrastructure teams could spot a misconfigured storage bucket or a suspicious access path, but rarely knew what was actually sitting inside those resources. That gap is now getting some serious attention. Read all
Buying enterprise software has never been anyone’s idea of a smooth experience. Weeks of legal back-and-forth, manual configurations, and fragmented vendor relationships have long made procurement one of the more quietly painful parts of running a technology operation. Consequently, SUSE is addressing that friction directly with a significant expansion of its Cloud Elevate program. The open-source infrastructure company announced new integrations with AWS and Google Cloud Marketplace, giving enterprise customers a more direct path to acquiring SUSE solutions using pre-committed cloud budgets they already hold. The expansion introduces two distinct programs tailored for different parts of the partner ecosystem, each designed to reduce the administrative weight that typically slows down software deals. The first program, AWS Designated Seller of Record, allows distributors to act as designated sellers of record on behalf of AWS Marketplace transactions. The second, Google Cloud Marketplace Channel Private Offers, targets channel partners specifically, enabling resellers to extend private offers directly to clients while preserving their existing business relationships. Together, these two mechanisms cover meaningfully different parts of how enterprise software deals actually move through organizations. According to research cited by SUSE, enterprises that shift procurement to cloud marketplaces achieve meaningful efficiency gains across the board. The procurement process cycle supposedly takes 66% less time, sales cycle time is increased by 40%, and the onboarding process is made much easier through the use of marketplaces instead of manual contracts management. This might be crucial for companies that spend heavily on technologies. Read all
Setting up a private connection to the cloud has never been a quick job. For most enterprises, it meant coordinating multiple providers, working through manual configurations, and waiting anywhere from days to weeks before traffic could actually flow. Lumen Technologies and AWS are changing that equation in a meaningful way. Read all
Having a website used to be enough. For a growing number of small and midsized businesses, it no longer is, and Bluehost is responding to that shift with something notably different from what web hosting companies typically offer. Read all
European governments and regulated industries have spent years talking about sovereign AI. Accenture and Google Cloud just opened a physical space where organizations can actually try it out before committing to it at scale. Read all
Putting servers inside Europe is the easy part. Controlling where data travels between those servers is where sovereign cloud commitments either hold up or quietly fall apart. Read all
Fluidstack‘s ascent from European underdog to one of the most talked-about names in AI infrastructure has been fast enough to make even seasoned investors do a double take. Read all
