Application infrastructure stories

Datadog has launched Storage Management to help firms cut rising cloud storage costs driven by AI workloads, initially for Amazon S3 users with Google and Azure previews.

Oracle's Fusion AI agent platform surpasses 400 agents, enabling partners like Deloitte and Accenture to develop and distribute AI tools within enterprise apps.

The graduation marks a milestone with widespread enterprise adoption and over 3,000 contributors supporting multi-cloud platform engineering.

Business Software Alliance predicts AI adoption could boost India’s economy by over USD $500 billion by 2035, supporting the government's Viksit Bharat goals.

CoreWeave secures a USD $1.17bn deal with VAST Data to power its AI cloud platform, enhancing scalability and performance for enterprise AI workloads.

Gigamon launches GigaVUE 6.12 update featuring quantum-safe cryptography, aiding firms to tackle future quantum computing threats to encryption.

SentinelOne and AWS have announced new AI-powered security integrations to automate and enhance protection for cloud and generative AI environments.

Apptio updates IBM Cloudability and Kubecost platforms with FinOps tools to help firms manage soaring AI cloud costs and optimise tech spending.

ReliaQuest reveals identity compromises and process flaws, not zero-day exploits, drive most cloud breaches, with 99% of cloud identities still over-privileged.

Westcon-Comstor is now an authorised distributor of Nutanix in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, enhancing hybrid multi-cloud offerings for local resellers.

Marketron has cut costs and boosted stability by migrating its cloud infrastructure to 11:11 Systems, avoiding costly hardware maintenance and improving service reliability.

Retailers are boosting observability investments to manage AI-driven complexity and reduce costly digital outages, with median losses at USD $1 million per hour.

Vertiv has launched gigawatt-scale AI data centre blueprints with NVIDIA, cutting deployment time by up to 50% using flexible, prefabricated designs.

Apptio launches new FinOps tools to help organisations in Singapore and beyond manage soaring AI cloud costs with better visibility and control.

Apptio launches new FinOps tools to help businesses better manage rising AI-driven cloud costs amid a surge towards USD $571 billion global AI spend.

Smartsheet and AWS launch a global co-selling deal with AI integration, streamlining procurement and boosting platform deployment worldwide.

Amazon Web Services and OpenAI form a USD $38 billion deal to provide cutting-edge AI computing power, aiming for full deployment by 2026.

AWS’s $11bn Rainier data centre in Indiana powers Anthropic’s AI surge, hosting 500,000 custom chips to drive model training and global expansion.

Microsoft Azure's outage exposed security risks, disrupting key services used by UK organisations and sparking calls for a diversified, sovereign cloud strategy.

UK developer salaries hit record highs, with AI specialists earning up to GBP £122,000 as demand for advanced tech skills surges amid industry growth.