Compliance used to mean following a rulebook. Increasingly, it means juggling dozens of rulebooks that nobody wrote to work together, and that challenge is landing hard on companies operating across borders. Read all
Slow data access has quietly become one of the costlier headaches in modern media production. OpenDrives tackles it head-on with the debut of OpenDrives Edge at NAB Show 2026, a hybrid cloud-edge accelerator built around the way distributed video teams actually function day to day. The product targets a friction point that has grown harder to ignore as productions spread across more locations. Editors and media professionals working remotely often wait on assets stored far from where they sit, and that wait chips away at both productivity and deadlines. Edge changes the dynamic by letting teams pull data once from a central hub, store it locally at the edge, and work at the kind of speeds they would expect from hardware sitting right beside them. Once the work is done, the system pushes updates back to the central source automatically. Also, Edge is used to manage data tiering depending on access patterns so that the most frequently accessed files will be close by and the least-accessed ones pushed further into cheaper storage mediums. This marks an acknowledgement by the media technology industry that simple storage solutions won’t do anymore. Teams need infrastructure that thinks about access, not just capacity. OpenDrives CTO Alex Dunfey noted that the company built Edge specifically to take data movement off the list of things teams have to think about at all. CEO Trevor Morgan pointed to a shift that most in the industry already feel: video content volumes keep climbing, more people need immediate access, and the old storage playbook never accounted for any of that reality. Through the Atlas platform’s Containers Marketplace, Edge connects to AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure today, with Oracle Cloud joining later. Future versions will push Edge beyond Atlas into broader hardware and cloud environments as well. Industry observers note this move fits a wider pattern of storage providers repositioning around workflow outcomes rather than raw specs. For remote media teams juggling tight turnarounds and scattered collaborators, data that simply behaves like it sits locally could change how productions run at a foundational level. Read all
For years, the conversation around cloud adoption in Europe focused on speed, cost, and capability. Increasingly, however, a different question is taking over: whose rules does your data actually live under? Read all
Physicians didn’t spend a decade in training to become data entry clerks. But somewhere between the exam room and the end of a shift, that’s often what the job starts to feel like. ModMed is changing that, and it now has the infrastructure to back it up. Read all
There’s a version of AI assistance that just sits in the background, quietly finishing things while you’re in a meeting or asleep. Microsoft wants to build that. And apparently, it’s been watching open source developers get there first. Read all
For years, European regulators have been telling cloud providers the same thing: storing data on foreign servers under foreign laws is no longer acceptable. Google Cloud appears to have finally taken that seriously. Read all
Enterprise Linux support windows have always involved a tension that most vendors prefer not to discuss openly. Organizations running complex, compliance-sensitive systems need stability over long periods, while software vendors have structural incentives to push customers toward newer versions on a schedule that suits the product roadmap rather than the operational reality on the ground. Red Hat’s new RHEL Extended Life Cycle Premium subscription addresses that tension directly. Read all
Eight weeks. That is how long it took between the ink drying on a $63.4 million acquisition and the opening of formal redundancy proceedings at one of Europe’s most recognized open-source e-commerce platforms. Read all
CloudFerro has launched a new cloud region in Łódź, Poland, aimed at organizations seeking tighter control over data and AI infrastructure within EU jurisdiction. Built for high-performance workloads, the facility supports large-scale analytics and GPU-driven computing while aligning with growing regulatory demands. The expansion highlights a broader shift across Europe, where cloud decisions increasingly hinge on sovereignty, compliance, and long-term operational control rather than scale alone. Read all
Nutanix has introduced NKP Metal, a bare-metal Kubernetes offering designed to handle performance-intensive AI and edge workloads without the usual operational burden. By enabling containers and virtual machines to run under a unified model, the platform aims to simplify infrastructure management while preserving direct hardware access. The launch reflects a broader shift as enterprises seek more efficient ways to run AI applications beyond traditional virtualized environments. Read all
WordPress hosting has largely split into two camps for the past several years. Managed platforms handle everything but charge accordingly and impose limitations that grow more noticeable as usage scales. Self-hosted VPS setups offer complete control but require ongoing technical work that many developers and freelancers would rather spend on client projects. PanelAlpha’s Single Server beta enters that gap directly. Read all
