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Albert Greenberg and the network as a distributed computer

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Albert Greenberg and the network as a distributed computer

Across AT&T, Microsoft Azure and Uber, Albert Greenberg repeatedly addressed the same problem: how to make a large network behave as a coherent system while topology, traffic, control software, hardware and failures change at different speeds. His influence is clearest in control…

Sep 3, 2026
Realistic portrait-style image of a senior technology leader seated at a desk with a laptop, with server racks and network monitoring screens in the background.

Creators

Albert Greenberg and the network as a distributed computer

Across AT&T, Microsoft Azure and Uber, Albert Greenberg has worked on a recurring problem: how to make a large network behave like one coherent system when topology, traffic, control software, hardware and failure all change at different speeds. His influence is best understood…

Sep 3, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of Nvidia Blackwell GPU infrastructure representing E2E Networks' ₹1,000 crore agreement through June 2029

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends

E2E Networks signs ₹1,000 crore Blackwell GPU deal

The Indian cloud provider has moved Nvidia Blackwell capacity deployed in May from pay-as-you-go use to a longer-term customer agreement running through June 2029.

Sep 2, 2026
A secured vault of amber protocol units stands behind a balance holding a smaller unit pile against a larger stack of blank share certificates.

North America Cloud Services Trends

Greenlane’s BERA Holdings Rose in Q2. Its BERA-per-Share Ratio Fell

Greenlane ended June with more BERA exposure than it held in March, yet fewer BERA-equivalent units for each issued Class A share. That movement is the useful receipt. It shows why a token treasury needs four ledgers at once: units owned, shares issued, potential shares outside…

Sep 1, 2026
An illuminated photo-archive lightbox sits beside a thirty-segment timing dial and two sealed coupon envelopes.

Global Cloud Services Trends

Getty Says It Can Pay. A 30-Day Interest Grace Period Is the Plan

Getty Images has put a clock on a financing decision without saying that it lacks the money to settle it. The company intends to use contractual 30-day grace periods for two interest payments due on 1 September, says it has sufficient cash to pay, and has hired Guggenheim to…

Sep 1, 2026
Powered-down mining machines sit in blank crates beside an open service trench and unfinished, unlit liquid-cooled GPU racks.

Global Cloud Services Trends

IREN Wrote Down US$638.8m. AI Had Not Replaced Mining

IREN's largest FY2026 transition number was not AI revenue but the value removed from old assets. A US$638.8 million impairment marks an accelerated exit from mining hardware and displaced infrastructure. Yet Bitcoin mining still supplied most full-year revenue, operating AI…

Sep 1, 2026
Unbranded server racks above a raised floor are fed by separate blue subscriber-cash pulses and amber finance-lease rails, with a small supplemental cloud node bank.

North America Cloud Services Trends

Dropbox’s Cloud Carries US$285.9m of Finance-Lease Obligations

Dropbox looks like a subscription business until the raised floor comes into view. Its June accounts carried US$285.9 million of finance-lease obligations, while its engineers were describing racks, airflow, cooling and power headroom inside co-location facilities. The important…

Aug 31, 2026
An expanding blue subscription stream crosses four overlapping delivery-cost systems and exits through a narrower amber margin corridor.

Global Cloud Services Trends

ServiceNow's 650bp Margin Drop Has a US$405m Cost Trail

ServiceNow's subscription engine grew quickly in the second quarter of 2026, but the cost of running it grew faster. Revenue rose 24.5% to US$3.877 billion while GAAP subscription gross margin fell from 80.0% to 73.5%. The filing identifies US$394 million across four cost-driver…

Aug 31, 2026
Mixed purchase categories remain inside a blue quarter-end ledger while a larger amber commitment sits beyond its dated boundary.

North America Cloud Services Trends

CrowdStrike Disclosed US$2.9bn Beyond Its US$4.1bn Purchase Table

CrowdStrike's purchase-obligation note contains a number that does not belong to the date printed above its table. At 31 July 2026 the table totalled US$4.141527 billion. After quarter-end, the company committed to an additional US$2.9 billion, running from fiscal 2027 to fiscal…

Aug 31, 2026
Editorial illustration of an AI cyber-defence coalition protecting telecom, data-centre, satellite and energy infrastructure

Global Institutional Trends

OpenAI coalition urges faster AI cyber defence

More than 100 organisations are calling for faster vulnerability repair, shared threat intelligence and wider access to defensive AI for critical infrastructure.

Aug 31, 2026
Editorial illustration of a Malaysian data-centre environment connected to cloud, networking, cybersecurity and managed IT infrastructure.

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services

Velo Technologies expands its infrastructure business from Cyberjaya

The Malaysian private company spans data-centre capacity, cloud, managed security, networks and IT outsourcing. Its partnerships are increasingly visible, but its ownership names, absolute financial scale and the economics behind some of its infrastructure commitments remain…

Aug 31, 2026
AI-generated illustration of a branded streaming platform running across television, mobile and tablet devices for telecom providers

North America Cloud Services

FreeCast targets telecom operators with streaming PaaS

FreeCast is pitching its streaming platform to telecom and broadband providers, with Assist Wireless and enTouch Wireless already signed to use the service.

Aug 31, 2026
Kazuho Oku in an AI editorial portrait beside two HTTP message paths, an explicit intermediary refusal branch and a separate bounded buffering delay.

IETF

Kazuho Oku and the Header That Makes Refusal Legible but Cannot Promise Streaming

An HTTP field can require a proxy that understands it to reject instead of quietly buffering. It cannot command a proxy that has never learned the field. RFC 10036 improves the evidence around incremental delivery precisely by preserving that distinction.

Aug 31, 2026
Blank contract modules circulate through a round renewal lane beside a straight gated lane that diverts one open-latch module in a generic data-centre room.

North America Cloud Services Trends

Nutanix Assumes ARR Renewal but Excludes Cancellable Obligations

Nutanix closed fiscal 2026 with US$2.549 billion of annual recurring revenue and US$3.440 billion of remaining performance obligations. The larger number is not a fuller version of the smaller one. One measure deliberately assumes an expiring subscription renews; the other leaves…

Aug 30, 2026
A glass browser plane sends blue and amber-red commands into a server mediator where two OAuth token cores remain sealed; one over-broad outbound route carries the hostile command to a resource service.

CASE FILE

The Token Never Reached JavaScript. The Command Still Ran: RFC 10017 and Browser OAuth Authority

RFC 10017 gives sensitive browser applications a clear architectural preference: keep OAuth tokens in a confidential Backend for Frontend. That closes several theft paths. It does not stop hostile code already running in the approved origin from asking the BFF to act. The…

Aug 30, 2026
A bridge, rail corridor and construction site appear as an infrastructure digital twin, with four unlabeled usage streams converging toward one horizon.

Global Cloud Services Trends

Bentley Reports US$1.536bn ARR. 51% Is a Three-Month Usage Run Rate

Bentley Systems places one number at the centre of its recurring-software story: US$1.536 billion of annualized recurring revenue. But the number is built with two clocks. One annualizes the recurring contracts in force at quarter-end. The other takes only the latest three months…

Aug 30, 2026
Orderly contract modules enter a transparent content platform and expand into a denser workload supported by a widening cloud infrastructure layer.

Global Cloud Services Trends

Box's RPO Rose 15%. Broader Content Use Could Still Lower Margins

Box sold more contracted revenue faster than it grew current revenue, while preserving a 79.1% GAAP gross margin. Yet its own filing identifies a second commercial clock: customers that place more of their content in Box can consume more infrastructure before the public accounts…

Aug 30, 2026
Many small cloud customer modules and a compact group of larger modules feed a shared compute chamber, while one foreground account shell contains accelerator, conventional compute and database compartments.

North America Cloud Services Trends

DigitalOcean's Top 25 Customers Reached 20% of Revenue. AI ARR Counts the Whole Account

Two expanding labels now carry much of DigitalOcean's growth story: its largest customers and its AI customers. Neither label is a product revenue line. Reading them together requires an account-level bridge that the company has not yet published.

Aug 29, 2026
Translucent customer data capsules pass through four distinct gates from a shared legacy platform toward a controlled new environment, while one route branches away and service conduits remain intact.

Global Cloud Services Trends

Veeva's Salesforce CRM Has a 150% Per-Customer Cap and 2030 Exit

The legacy platform is neither open for ordinary growth nor scheduled to disappear tomorrow. Veeva's agreement with Salesforce has turned the old CRM into a bounded migration corridor: existing customers can still operate and expand within a fixed ceiling, while new customers and…

Aug 29, 2026
Two implementation specialists roll an unbranded mobile test environment across a glass threshold between software and customer operations teams.

Global Cloud Services Trends

Okta Is Moving a Service Line With a -53.4% Non-GAAP Margin to Partners

Okta expects its accelerated hand-off of professional services to reduce fiscal-year revenue growth by about one percentage point. The work being moved was already loss-making inside Okta. The strategic question is whether partners make deployment cheaper and faster for the whole…

Aug 29, 2026