Topic: cloud services
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Top 5 Cloud Tools for Small Businesses in 2025
Cloud tools are essential for small businesses, offering operational efficiency through subscription services, but require careful management to control costs. Five key cloud services include email/domain hosting, web hosting, cloud storage, and accounting software, each providing specific benefi...
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Top 5 Cloud Tools for Small Businesses in 2025
Selecting the right cloud tools can boost small business efficiency affordably, but avoiding subscription overload is key to managing costs. Essential cloud services include a professional domain-based email, a functional website using template builders, and cloud storage for backup and universal...
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Amazon and Google Cloud Partner to Prevent Outages
AWS and Google Cloud have partnered to create a direct, private link between their platforms, enabling businesses to quickly establish a connection as a safety net against service disruptions. The system includes proactive monitoring to identify potential failures and a coordinated maintenance sc...
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OpenAI Partners With Amazon in Major AI Compute Deal
OpenAI has secured a seven-year, $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services to access extensive cloud computing capacity and Nvidia GPUs for advancing AI systems like ChatGPT and Sora. The partnership, which begins immediately and will reach full capacity by 2026, aims to build a robust compu...
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Amazon's DNS Outage: A Billion-Dollar Web Blackout
The Amazon Web Services outage was a severe disruption affecting over 28 services, halting countless online platforms and business operations globally, with potential financial damages reaching billions. Major services like Snapchat, Reddit, airlines, and banks were impacted, causing operational ...
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Neato's Cloud Shutdown Traps Robot Vacuums in Manual Mode
Neato robot vacuums have lost remote control and scheduling capabilities due to the permanent shutdown of their cloud services, forcing users to rely solely on manual operation via physical buttons. The discontinuation was attributed to evolving cybersecurity requirements and compliance regulatio...
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The Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Fueling the AI Revolution
The immense computational needs of AI are fueling a global construction and investment boom, projected to cost trillions and fundamentally reshape the digital infrastructure landscape. Strategic partnerships between AI developers and cloud providers have become standard, with massive investments ...
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Microsoft's Cobalt 200 Chip Boosts Azure Performance in Custom Silicon Race
Microsoft's Cobalt 200 is an Arm-based CPU for Azure, offering up to 50% higher performance than its predecessor and targeting demanding applications like data analytics and web services. The chip features 132 cores with per-core power management and specialized hardware accelerators, reducing en...
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Verify Your Cloud Hosting with Google Search Console
Verifying cloud-hosted assets in Google Search Console is essential for SEO oversight, allowing monitoring of performance and access to debugging data for issues like crawling and indexing. Setting up verification involves creating a CNAME DNS record for a custom hostname (e.g., a subdomain) poin...
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Neato Vacuums Lose Smart Features After Cloud Shutdown
Vorwerk Group is permanently shutting down Neato's cloud services, disabling the MyNeato app and remote functionality for its robot vacuums, forcing users to rely on manual operation. The shutdown, occurring earlier than the promised five-year support period, is attributed to evolving cybersecuri...
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Bose Removes Key Features From SoundTouch Speakers
Bose will discontinue cloud services for its SoundTouch speaker line on February 18, 2026, eliminating key features like integrated music streaming and multi-room audio synchronization. After the shutdown, devices will retain local playback via Bluetooth, AUX, or HDMI inputs, but the SoundTouch a...
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Microsoft Takes on AWS in AI App Marketplace Race
Microsoft has launched a new unified Microsoft Marketplace, positioning it as a direct competitor to Amazon Web Services in the AI app marketplace space. The marketplace offers over 3,000 AI apps and agents from Microsoft's partner network, designed to help businesses automate tasks, accelerate d...
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Microsoft Restricts Israeli Military's Access to Key AI, Cloud Tools
Microsoft has restricted the Israeli military's access to certain cloud and AI services after an internal review confirmed their use in mass surveillance of Palestinian civilians, violating company terms of service. The suspension affects only specific services used by one unit, while other Micro...
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Top Cloud & Cyber Security Solutions in the UAE
UAE businesses are increasingly adopting advanced cloud and cybersecurity services to protect digital assets and ensure operational continuity against complex threats. Eazztree provides integrated cloud protection and proactive threat monitoring to help organizations safeguard data, maintain comp...
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UAE's G42 and Microsoft Launch $15.2B Data Center Expansion
Microsoft and G42 have formed a $15.2 billion partnership to build a 200-megawatt data center in the UAE, set to launch by 2026 to boost the nation's digital transformation. The initiative strengthens Microsoft Azure's sovereign cloud services, emphasizing data security, compliance, and responsib...
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Xbox Sales See Continued Decline
Xbox hardware sales are in a severe and ongoing decline, with revenue dropping 29% year-over-year in Q1 2026, continuing a trend of significant quarterly decreases. Microsoft is shifting its strategy away from traditional consoles to an "Xbox everywhere" approach, expanding game and service acces...
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Tech Giants Invest Billions in AI Startup Anthropic
Microsoft and Nvidia are investing billions in AI startup Anthropic, with a $30 billion commitment from Anthropic to use Microsoft's cloud infrastructure and additional funding from both companies. This partnership connects major OpenAI backers with a key competitor, as Microsoft integrates Anthr...
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iRobot Faces Financial Crisis as Revenue Plummets
iRobot is facing severe financial difficulties, with a sharp revenue decline and less than $25 million in cash reserves, leaving it without options for additional capital. The company's struggles were exacerbated by the failed Amazon acquisition, leading to a 30% workforce reduction, leadership c...
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Xbox Hardware Sales Drop 29% as Third-Party Games Thrive
Microsoft's gaming division saw a 2% revenue decline, driven by a sharp 29% drop in Xbox hardware sales, despite overall company revenue growth of 18% to $77.7 billion. Xbox content and services revenue grew 1%, supported by Xbox Game Pass subscriptions and strong third-party game performance, wh...
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Rackspace Unveils 2025 Sustainability Report
Rackspace Technology released its 2025 Sustainability Report, detailing progress toward net-zero emissions and alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals, including a 10% reduction in total emissions from 2023 to 2024. The company's greenhouse gas reduction targets are validated by the Scien...
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Oman Data Park Expands OCI Services with New Ibri Region
Oman Data Park has expanded its cloud services with a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Secondary Dedicated Region in Wilayat Ibri, enhancing Oman's digital transformation and sovereign cloud capabilities. The dual-region setup with Muscat ensures low-latency, high availability, and disaster recove...
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Datadog Hits 1,000 Integrations Milestone for Unified Observability
Datadog has launched its 1,000th integration, strengthening its leadership in unified observability across infrastructure, cloud services, security, SaaS, and AI technologies. The company is dedicated to supporting customers through their cloud adoption by continuously investing in R&D and partne...
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CISA, Partners Act on Critical Microsoft Exchange Vulnerabilities
CISA, NSA, and international partners have issued critical guidance for securing on-premises Microsoft Exchange Servers, as Microsoft ends perpetual security updates for Exchange 2016 and 2019, leaving systems vulnerable to cyber threats. Recommended actions include restricting administrative acc...
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Can Anthropic's AI Safety Plan Stop a Nuclear Threat?
Anthropic is collaborating with US government agencies to prevent its AI chatbot Claude from assisting with nuclear weapons development by implementing safeguards against sensitive information disclosure. The partnership uses Amazon's secure cloud infrastructure for rigorous testing and developme...
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Microsoft Engineer's Mass Resignation Email After 13 Years Goes Viral
A longtime principal software engineer at Microsoft resigned over ethical concerns, citing the company's military contracts with Israel and accusing it of enabling human rights violations. Microsoft suspended some cloud services for an Israeli military unit after an investigation confirmed its pl...
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Cancer Council Queensland Boosts IT with Macquarie Telecom
Cancer Council Queensland has partnered with Macquarie Telecom to enhance its IT infrastructure, enabling the charity to focus more resources on cancer research, prevention, and patient care. The partnership includes a secure SD-WAN and SASE framework, along with cybersecurity upgrades like SOC a...
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AWS Nova AI models debut with enhanced customer control service
AWS has launched the Nova 2 family of proprietary AI models, including four new specialized models for tasks like reasoning, coding, and speech, to provide enterprise clients with more powerful tools. A key new service, Nova Forge, allows AWS customers to create custom versions of Nova models usi...
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Saudi Aramco Buys Stake in PIF's AI Firm HUMAIN
Saudi Aramco is acquiring a minority stake in HUMAIN, with both PIF and Aramco contributing AI assets and expertise to scale operations and enhance Saudi Arabia's position as a global AI hub. The partnership aims to accelerate talent development, innovation, and industrial AI applications, levera...
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Telstra's Aura Network to Boost Australia's GDP by $29B with New Route
Telstra has launched the Sydney-Melbourne coastal section of its $1.6 billion Aura Network, a major digital infrastructure project designed to support Australia's future digital needs amid growing data traffic. The network is projected to contribute an additional $29 billion to Australia's GDP by...
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Vertiv, Ezditek Partner to Build AI Data Centers in Saudi Arabia
Vertiv and Ezditek have formed a partnership to accelerate the development of AI-ready data centers in Saudi Arabia, aligning with Saudi Vision 2030's digital transformation goals. The collaboration combines Vertiv's global infrastructure expertise with Ezditek's regional knowledge to deliver sca...
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Google's Gmail Update: A Choice for 2 Billion Users
Confusion around Gmail security highlights a widespread user misunderstanding of cloud data practices, placing the onus on individuals to manage their own privacy across all major platforms. Despite clarifications that recent Gmail headlines were based on old data or misinformation, the cycle rev...
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Cloudflare Outages: Not If, But When
A widespread outage at Cloudflare disrupted major websites and services like X, ChatGPT, and Spotify, highlighting the internet's heavy reliance on a few key infrastructure providers. Experts warn that such outages are becoming more frequent and severe, urging companies to build redundancy and re...
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Microsoft: SesameOp Malware Exploits OpenAI API in Attacks
Microsoft discovered the SesameOp backdoor, which exploits the OpenAI Assistants API as a covert command-and-control channel to maintain persistent access in compromised systems. The malware evades detection by using legitimate cloud services for communication, blending malicious traffic with nor...
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MessageXchange Reappointed as NSW Government's E-Invoicing Partner
The New South Wales Government has renewed its partnership with MessageXchange, confirming it as the dedicated e-invoicing provider after a review by NSW Treasury, continuing a collaboration that began in 2020. Peppol e-invoicing enables secure, direct invoice transfers between software systems, ...
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Cloud Box to Showcase AI and Infrastructure at GITEX 2025
Cloud Box Technologies will showcase its advanced infrastructure and AI solutions at GITEX GLOBAL 2025, highlighting hardware and services for diverse organizations. As a Titanium Dell partner, the company will feature Dell products like PowerScale for AI workflows and present cybersecurity solut...
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Alibaba Integrates Nvidia AI Hardware Into Its Platform
Alibaba is integrating Nvidia's AI tools into its cloud platform to enhance offerings for developers in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and smart environments. The partnership centers on Nvidia's Physical AI software for creating 3D digital replicas to generate synthetic data for training AI model...
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Why EASM is Essential for Modern Cybersecurity
EASM tools are critical for identifying and managing external vulnerabilities by discovering internet-facing assets and exposures that attackers could target. These tools operate through continuous discovery, automated security analysis, and risk-based reporting to enhance visibility and prioriti...
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Qatar's First Commercial Internet Exchange Launches in Doha
Qatar has launched its first commercial Internet Exchange, Doha IX, in partnership with Ooredoo and DE-CIX, aiming to establish the country as a regional connectivity hub. Doha IX provides a secure, neutral, and high-performance interconnection environment for various networks, reducing latency a...
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Telecom Egypt Boosts Global Reach with New Aqaba Digital Hub PoP
Telecom Egypt has expanded its regional influence by establishing a new Point of Presence (PoP) at Jordan's Aqaba Digital Hub, enhancing connectivity across the Middle East. The PoP serves as a key interconnection point to support high-bandwidth needs for cloud providers and enterprises, improvin...
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Factory Model: Fast-Track Your VMware Migration
Organizations face slow, complex VMware workload migrations, pressured by the need for AI-ready infrastructure and unpredictable costs, with most firms acknowledging their IT and cloud setups require significant updates. A systematic "factory model" is replacing one-off approaches, using standard...
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Nextcloud vs. OnlyOffice: Which is the Best Microsoft 365 Alternative?
Nextcloud Office and OnlyOffice are leading open-source, self-hosted alternatives to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, offering robust document editing, collaboration, and data control without subscription fees. Nextcloud Office emphasizes security, privacy, and integration within the Nextcloud...
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Major Outage: Cloudflare Disrupts X, ChatGPT, and Downdetector
A widespread outage at Cloudflare caused significant disruptions to numerous popular internet platforms, including X, ChatGPT, and Downdetector, with services now showing initial signs of recovery. The disruption was triggered by an unexplained spike in unusual traffic targeting a core Cloudflare...
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Serco Asia Pacific Boosts Integration with Boomi AI
Serco Asia Pacific is accelerating its digital transformation by integrating Boomi's AI capabilities to speed up development cycles and empower non-technical staff to build foundational integrations. The use of Boomi's AI agents, such as Scribe and DesignGen, has dramatically reduced documentatio...
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Crimson Collective Hackers Breach AWS for Data Theft
The Crimson Collective is a hacking group infiltrating AWS infrastructures to steal sensitive data and extort organizations, as seen in a breach at Red GitLab repositories. Attackers compromise AWS using exposed credentials and tools like TruffleHog, then escalate privileges to gain administrativ...
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Telecom Egypt Boosts Regional Reach with Aqaba Hub & Coral Bridge Cable
Telecom Egypt has expanded its regional role by establishing a new Point of Presence at the Aqaba Digital Hub in Jordan, enhancing its capacity as a digital gateway for high-bandwidth solutions. This expansion is supported by the activation of the Coral Bridge subsea cable, which provides a direc...
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Test Updates Safely: CyDeploy's System Replica at Disrupt 2025
CyDeploy creates a digital twin of critical systems using machine learning, enabling safe testing of updates to patch vulnerabilities without disrupting operations. The platform combines automated data capture with human oversight, allowing system administrators to verify accuracy and accelerate ...
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Cerebras Raises $1.1B While Still Private a Year After IPO Filing
Cerebras Systems raised $1.1 billion in Series G funding, reaching an $8.1 billion valuation, co-led by Fidelity and Atreides Management, despite previous IPO plans for 2025. The company's growth is driven by strong demand for its AI inference services launched in 2024, leading to workforce expan...
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Larry Ellison: The Shadow President of Trump's America
Larry Ellison wields significant, low-profile influence as a "shadow president" in shaping America's second Trump term, operating with calculated subtlety from behind the scenes. Unlike other high-profile billionaires, Ellison's power stems from his foundational cloud and database businesses, all...
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