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Cloud Service Dependency
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North America Cloud Services Trends
BUZZ HPC signs $350m AI cloud contract
BUZZ will deploy 2,016 GPUs at Bell's Merritt facility under a five-year customer contract, with service targeted to begin in Q4 2026.
North America Cloud Services Trends
AWS EBS in 2011: recovery capacity as accountability
A network change in one Availability Zone exposed a deeper continuity problem: redundancy can become a source of load when many replicas try to heal at once. The 2011 EBS disruption shows why recovery capacity, shared control paths, isolation, and verifiable closure belong inside…
Creators
Steven Bellovin and the security questions that escaped the network
Steven M. Bellovin began by testing the claims computers accepted from packets: source addresses, routes, sequence numbers and names. His later work applied the same suspicion to institutions, asking what systems make the public trust when governments demand access, companies…
Global Institutional
Caliptra and the root of trust inside the data-centre chip
Modern servers contain several chips that boot code, hold keys and enforce policy before the host operating system is awake. Caliptra gives those components a common open root of trust, but factories, provisioning systems, physical implementations and fleet verifiers still decide…
Global Datacenter
Equinix Fabric and the Limits of Programmable Interconnection
For more than a decade, Equinix has turned private connections between data centres, clouds, and network services into software-addressable products. The 2026 push into agent-assisted operations and geographic path control extends the platform's usefulness but also makes the…
Global Datacenter
Equinix Fabric and the Limits of Programmable Interconnection
Equinix has spent more than a decade turning private connections between data centres, clouds, and network services into software-manageable products. Its 2026 expansion into agent-assisted operations and geographically constrained routing pushes the platform into broader…
North America Cloud Services Trends
The Azure Front Door Protection Bypass That Became an Accountability Test
Microsoft’s account of QNBQ-5W8 shows how a temporarily disabled safeguard let bad control-plane metadata reach edge resources—and why recovery promises need operational proof.
Story
APNIC guest post tests a shared cloud datapath without surrendering tenant transport control
A new APNIC Blog guest post describes Chamelio, a provider-managed userspace stack that lets cloud tenants contribute custom transport fast paths to one shared host datapath. The author reports benchmark results, not a provider rollout.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Project DIGITS put a 128GB AI system on the desk—at the announcement stage
Nvidia's 6 January 2025 CES announcement proposed a compact developer system with 128GB of coherent memory and a local-to-cloud software path. Its FP4 petaflop, model-size, price and availability figures described an intended product envelope, not shipment, independent testing or…
Creators
Bruce Maggs and the algorithms that turned distance into an infrastructure business
Akamai did not shorten the internet; it built a system that made distant content behave as though it were nearby. Bruce Maggs helped turn placement, mapping, caching and failure algorithms into commercial infrastructure, while the scale of that achievement belongs to the team and…
Global Institutional
perfSONAR and the path no single network can diagnose alone
perfSONAR gives research and education networks a shared way to test paths that cross several institutions. It can replace anecdote with common evidence, but endpoint quality, clock accuracy, local policy and incomplete coverage keep diagnosis a collective judgement rather than…
Global Cloud Services Trends
OpenAI dependency needs an exit route
Access to a capable model can accelerate work, but an application becomes exposed when prompts, evaluations and business rules cannot move with it.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Cloud security starts with identity and recovery
Encryption and provider controls cannot compensate for excessive permissions, exposed configuration or a recovery plan that has never been tested.
Global Cloud Services Trends
LEO performance still depends on ground infrastructure
Dr Nitinder Mohan’s measurements point to a practical limit in satellite broadband: lower orbital latency does not guarantee a fast application when traffic still reaches distant gateways, DNS resolvers or content caches.
Global Cloud Services Trends
A cloud free tier needs an exit budget before it needs more users
Free storage stops being free at the moment a useful workload begins to grow. The immediate control point is not the advertised allowance, but the cost of moving, retrieving and supporting the data once the allowance ends.
Global Cloud Services
Alkira: Building a Managed Network between Clouds and Fibre
Alkira turned multicloud routing, segmentation, and service insertion into a managed control plane that enterprises could consume from a portal or via code. Lumen’s $475 million acquisition tests whether owning the fibre can improve route assurance without making the…
Global Cloud Services
Alkira: Building a Managed Network Across Clouds and Fibre
Alkira turned multi-cloud routing, segmentation, and service insertion into a managed control plane that enterprises could consume via portal or code. Lumen’s $475 million acquisition now tests whether owning fibre improves path security without turning an abstraction built for…
Global Cloud Services
Alkira: Building a managed network across clouds and fibre
Alkira transformed multi-cloud routing, segmentation and service insertion into a managed control plane consumed via a portal or code. Its $475 million acquisition by Lumen tests whether owned fibre strengthens path assurance without turning the multi-provider abstraction layer…
Global Cloud Services
Alkira: Building a managed network across clouds and fibre
Alkira turned multi-cloud routing, segmentation and service insertion into a managed control plane that enterprises could consume through a portal and code. Lumen’s US$475 million acquisition now tests whether owned fibre can improve path assurance without turning a…
Africa Institutional
UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbps Core Network Constrained by Campus Endpoints
UbuntuNet’s 2023 report says core links were upgraded from around 2.5 Gbps to 10 Gbps, and new points of presence plus peering were added. Translating this regional upgrade into research capacity, however, depends on national research networks, campus systems, commercial…