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North America Cloud Services Trends

North America Cloud Services Trends

Cloud Service trend intelligence tracks cloud computing market trends, AI infrastructure demand, hybrid cloud adoption, edge deployment, platform competition, and data centre capacity pressure in North America, giving readers a fuller view of the demand shifts, capacity constraints, platform strategies, capital timing, regulatory pressure, and operating assumptions behind the market.

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North America Cloud Services Trends

Thryv’s 76% SaaS share still turns on a 24-month print clock

Thryv’s software now supplies most reported revenue, but the 76% headline is a mix ratio—not a growth rate. SaaS dollars were nearly flat in Q2 2026 as legacy marketing revenue collapsed; print-directory delivery timing moves that denominator, while normalized directory economics…

Oct 1, 2026
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Peacock’s edge pitch needs a live-event scorecard

Comcast and Fastly say their software can move Peacock’s biggest live events closer to viewers through Comcast’s network. Their releases describe initial delivery and latency gains, but disclose neither event-level measurements nor the footprint actually serving Peacock.

Sep 30, 2026
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North America Cloud Services Trends

BRC’s Sangoma deal promises a brand, not a product roadmap

BRC says Sangoma will join its communications portfolio while keeping its brand. That is an announced ownership plan, not yet a customer-continuity commitment: the deal has not closed, and the public materials do not specify what happens to product roadmaps, support or contracts.

Sep 29, 2026
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North America Cloud Services

CoreWeave's Backlog Is a Delivery Promise, Not Revenue

CoreWeave closed June 2026 with roughly $104 billion of contracted revenue backlog and $2.575 billion of revenue for the quarter. The distance between those two numbers is the company's real operating problem, and CoreWeave's own disclosure language says where it sits: backlog…

Sep 25, 2026
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Barrick’s mine-wide AI needs a boundary between advice and action

The promise of one intelligence layer across a mine is not merely better analysis. It is faster passage from a signal to a decision and from a decision to work in the field. That passage is also the product risk. Barrick and Avathon can make a broad operating platform credible by…

Sep 24, 2026
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Softcat’s $1.05bn GDT deal buys a service platform, not data-centre capacity

Softcat is paying for a route into large US technology accounts and the people, vendor relationships and delivery machinery that serve them. Whether that platform merits new dilution and leverage will depend on retention and cash conversion after completion, not on the…

Sep 20, 2026
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Fastnet’s Tiny Maryland Power Building Still Faces a Long Approval Chain

Amazon has reduced the proposed shore facility for its U.S.–Ireland Fastnet cable to a power-feed building of less than 700 square feet, with no water connection and limited power demand. The smaller design answers part of Worcester County’s concern about infrastructure…

Sep 19, 2026
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AWS’s recovery gap: DynamoDB access was not usable EC2 capacity

The October 2025 disruption in Northern Virginia exposed a difference between repairing a dependency and completing the work needed to make new compute usable. The recovery sequence matters more than a single all-clear time.

Sep 19, 2026
Editorial illustration of CoreWeave's multi-rack NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 cluster and AI Object Storage upgrades

North America Cloud Services

CoreWeave brings up multi-rack Vera Rubin cluster

CoreWeave linked hundreds of Rubin GPUs and added storage changes aimed at reducing cross-region write delays for AI workloads.

Sep 17, 2026
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PaperCut replaces emergency patches as CISA deadline passes

PaperCut's new maintenance builds give administrators clearer version records, but site and secondary servers still need to be checked.

Sep 16, 2026
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CISA deadline passes for exploited ScreenConnect flaw

ConnectWise says the flaw affects ScreenConnect clients, not servers, leaving providers to verify updates across the endpoints they support.

Sep 16, 2026
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EVERYWHERE's new investor backs the layer beyond connectivity

NexPhase's investment targets a field-team software platform, not just another communications path. The buyer's contract still determines who responds when an alert arrives.

Sep 15, 2026
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North America Cloud Services Trends

Braze’s messaging and infrastructure bills drove 73% of its delivery-cost increase

Braze grew revenue by more than a quarter, but the cost of delivering that growth rose faster. Two disclosed third-party lines explain nearly three quarters of the increase. They reveal where the platform pays a toll—and why neither AI excitement nor a headline gross margin can…

Sep 14, 2026
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ServiceTitan’s US$527 million contract measure does not capture its Max push

ServiceTitan is promoting Max as a larger, AI-enabled package while more of its commercial motion depends on upsells and usage. Yet the company’s principal contracted-revenue measure deliberately leaves much of that surface outside its frame. The gap does not weaken the quarter…

Sep 14, 2026
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North America Cloud Services Trends

NETSCOUT’s 12.7% growth came with early government orders and a US$17.9m backlog decline

NETSCOUT began fiscal 2027 with faster revenue, better margins and some government-related orders that arrived sooner than expected. Its product backlog simultaneously fell from March. The useful question is not which number cancels the other, but which clocks have moved into…

Sep 14, 2026
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Magnite and ITN move TV buying's approval point upstream

One brief for local linear television and connected TV can simplify planning without making the inventory, forecasts or spending authority interchangeable.

Sep 14, 2026
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Mezzo puts Vesta's verification choices into the call sequence

A common gateway changes how lenders select data suppliers. Its value depends on the result of the whole verification path, not the price of its first request.

Sep 14, 2026
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Knox's IL5 offer sells a boundary, not a blanket approval

The September 9 launch could spare software suppliers a separate defense-cloud operation. Buyers still need to know exactly which service and responsibilities they inherit.

Sep 14, 2026
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DigitalOcean’s Signed CDN Hostname Does Not Buy a Cache Hit

A private download can retain the same CDN domain as a public asset while taking a different delivery path. DigitalOcean’s Spaces documentation makes that distinction explicit. For buyers, the consequence is not a broken URL but a mistaken assumption about what the URL insulates…

Sep 14, 2026
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C3 AI’s Supplier Savings Need an Obligation Bridge

C3 AI has reduced the cost incurred under its supplier arrangements. Its future purchase commitments have also fallen, by a different amount. Reading both movements as the same saving would miss the contractual question at the heart of the turnaround: what was consumed, what was…

Sep 14, 2026