Google Teams Up with CTC Global for Grid Intelligence
Google Cloud and Alphabet’s moonshot project Tapestry have deepened their partnership with CTC Global to launch GridVista, an observability platform that embeds optical‑fiber sensors in transmission conductors. The system delivers real‑time strain, temperature and vibration data, feeding it into Google Cloud’s AI suite—including Vertex AI, BigQuery and WeatherNext—for predictive analytics. Tapestry incorporates this data into a virtualized grid model, enabling utilities to run simulations and plan capacity expansions. The collaboration aims to mitigate outages, extend the life of aging U.S. transmission assets, and reduce capital‑intensive upgrades.
Recurring Revenue Strategies for the AI Business Era
The article examines how AI’s high variable costs are reshaping recurring‑revenue models, moving firms away from flat‑rate SaaS subscriptions toward hybrid, usage‑based, and outcome‑based pricing. It cites McKinsey data showing 50% of firms plan AI adoption and highlights that 72%...
Brand and Company Name Normalization Rules and Best Practices
Company name normalization is a foundational step for clean GTM data, especially as AI amplifies the cost of poor quality. The article outlines practical rules—removing special characters, legal suffixes, standardizing case, extracting domains—and shows how Payfit cut duplicate records from...
Trackforce Brings Real-Time Visibility to the Whole Business with Geckoboard
Trackforce upgraded its support analytics by swapping delayed Zendesk reports for Geckoboard’s real‑time dashboards. The new self‑serve visualisations gave agents instant insight into queue health, productivity and CSAT, enabling proactive management. As a result, customer satisfaction jumped to 92.5% and...
How to Safely Use MySQL 8.0 Post End-of-Life (and Alternatives to Consider)
MySQL 8.0 reaches official End‑Of‑Life in April 2026, ending Oracle’s security patches and bug fixes. Organizations can still rely on Premier or Extended Support for a limited period, but the safest route is to upgrade to newer MySQL releases or migrate...
1606 Corp to Acquire Plot of Land in Texas for AI Data Center Development
1606 Corp signed a non‑binding term sheet to acquire roughly 132 acres in Lufkin, Texas, including a 55 MW natural‑gas power plant and a 50,000 sq ft warehouse for an AI‑focused data center. The transaction is priced at about $11.67 million, combining $7.5 million in...
Amazon Fends Off Blowback for Ring’s Search Party Tool
Amazon’s Ring introduced the “Search Party” feature, allowing users to share video clips from their doorbell cameras with friends, family, or law‑enforcement agencies to help locate missing persons. The rollout triggered immediate privacy backlash from civil‑rights groups who argue the...
Illinois Governor Pritzker to Call for Two-Year Suspension of Data Center Tax Incentives – Report
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker plans to request a two‑year suspension of tax incentives for new data centers, pending a study of the sector’s impact on the state’s electricity grid and residential bills. Current incentives grant up to 20 years of...
Safeguarding IoT & Edge Data Pipelines: QA Best Practices
The migration of data processing from centralized servers to edge devices is reshaping QA strategies for IoT pipelines. Unstable networks, fragmented device fleets, and expanded attack surfaces demand testing that goes beyond functional checks. Specialized IoT testing services now employ...
Platters: WD New Disk Drive Tech Hits Lucky 14
Western Digital announced a 14‑platter hard‑disk drive architecture that boosts capacity by roughly 27% over its current 11‑platter models, enabling 40 TB drives in 2026 and paving the way for 44 TB HAMR units later this year and 100 TB drives by 2029....
AI Threatens Staffing Industry as Companies Bring Recruitment In-House
Artificial intelligence is rapidly automating core recruitment tasks, enabling employers to screen resumes, rank candidates, and conduct initial interviews without external recruiters. This technological shift allows companies to bring talent acquisition in‑house, diminishing reliance on traditional staffing firms such as...
Edge Data Centers Vs. Edge Devices: When to Use Each
Edge computing can be delivered via purpose‑built edge data centers or through distributed edge devices such as gateways, sensors, and consumer hardware. Data centers provide consolidated compute, storage, and robust security for high‑throughput, latency‑sensitive workloads, while devices excel at mobile,...
Snowflake’s New Coding Agent Is in a Category of Its Own, Says Head of Product
Snowflake unveiled Cortex Code, an AI‑driven coding assistant embedded in its data platform, at the Build conference in London. The tool can generate, explain, and optimize SQL and Python code, handle data‑engineering and analytics tasks, and is context‑aware of schemas, governance...
TopQuadrant Launches Enterprise Context Platform to Build Trusted AI
TopQuadrant unveiled TQ Data Foundation, an enterprise context platform designed to close the AI "context gap" that keeps many large firms in pilot mode. The solution layers knowledge‑graph technology over existing data assets, delivering unified models, reference terms, metadata, and...
Adopting a Time Series Database with InfluxData
Cole Bowden’s DBTA webinar highlighted when organizations should replace generic data stacks with a purpose‑built time‑series database. He urged teams to start simple—if data fits in memory or a single drive, a traditional RDBMS may suffice, but scaling pressures demand...
David Wheeler: Pg_clickhouse v0.1.4
The pg_clickhouse extension for PostgreSQL has been updated to version 0.1.4, a maintenance release that can be applied in‑place without running an ALTER EXTENSION command. The update resolves critical bugs: the binary driver now correctly inserts NULL into ClickHouse Nullable...
CVE-2026-25903 Impacts Apache NiFi Users
A new vulnerability, CVE‑2026‑25903, affects Apache NiFi versions 1.1.0 through 2.7.2 and was patched in 2.8.0. The flaw allows users with limited privileges to modify the configuration of already‑deployed restricted components, bypassing the platform’s authorization checks. While it does not...
How to Build an Advanced, Interactive Exploratory Data Analysis Workflow Using PyGWalker and Feature-Engineered Data
The tutorial walks through building a fully interactive exploratory data analysis (EDA) workflow inside a Python notebook using PyGWalker. It starts with advanced feature engineering on the Titanic dataset, creating buckets, segments, and DuckDB‑safe columns for both row‑level and aggregated...
Design and Implementation of Cloud-Native Microservice Architectures for Scalable Insurance Analytics Platforms
A new study presents a cloud‑native microservice architecture designed for insurance analytics, leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, and Spark to replace legacy monolithic systems. The design enables real‑time data ingestion, continuous AI model deployment, and automated scaling across services. Performance tests...
Microsoft Brings Two Data Halls Online in São Paulo, Brazil
Microsoft has brought two new data halls online in São Paulo, marking the first operational facilities under its $2.7 bn AI and cloud commitment to Brazil through 2027. The launch was announced at the Microsoft AI Tour by country president Priscyla Laham,...
VIDAA Takes on Nielsen, Comscore with V Index Measurement Solution
VIDAA, now rebranded as V, is set to launch its V Index measurement platform in Q2, blending traditional linear TV data with streaming‑app viewership. The solution will initially roll out across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, leveraging the company’s...
Quest Trusted Data Management Platform Makes It Easier for Organizations to Create Reusable Data Products
Quest Software unveiled the Trusted Data Management Platform, a unified suite that combines data modeling, cataloging, governance, quality, and a marketplace to deliver AI‑ready data across enterprises. The solution promises up to 54% faster data‑product delivery, up to 40% cost...
Dynatrace Announces Accelerated Growth and Innovation with AWS
Dynatrace announced accelerated growth by surpassing $1 billion in AWS Marketplace sales and earning the AWS Financial Services Competency. The company reported sustained triple‑digit growth over three years, driven by cloud‑native procurement demand. It also secured the AWS Agentic AI Specialization,...
SurrealDB 3.0 Wants to Replace Your Five-Database RAG Stack with One
SurrealDB launched version 3.0 alongside a $23 million Series A extension, bringing total funding to $44 million. The new release consolidates relational, vector and graph capabilities into a single Rust‑native engine, letting AI agents store memory, business logic and multimodal data transactionally. By...
LSEG Partners with Bank of America to Unlock Next Generation Data, Analytics and AI Ready Content for Clients
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Bank of America have entered a multi‑year partnership to embed LSEG’s data, analytics and workflow solutions across BofA’s platforms. The deal gives BofA clients governed, rights‑cleared data and AI‑ready content, powered by LSEG Workspace,...
The Myth of ‘Always On’: Confronting Data Center SPOFs
Recent incidents—a 2021 Texas freeze and a 2021 OVH fire in Strasbourg—highlight hidden single points of failure in data centers. The freeze delayed fuel deliveries, exposing over‑reliance on on‑site fuel, while the fire demonstrated how passive cooling designs can unintentionally...
Pure Storage Wants to Demolish Your Storage Silos
Pure Storage’s Cloud service extends its Purity operating environment to AWS and Azure, delivering a single‑pane‑of‑glass storage layer that feels identical to on‑prem FlashArray. By abstracting the underlying cloud hardware, the platform offers native APIs, replication, and security while adding...
Agoda Open Sources APIAgent to Convert Any REST Pr GraphQL API Into an MCP Server with Zero Code
Agoda has released APIAgent, an open‑source tool that turns any REST or GraphQL API into a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with zero code and no deployments. The proxy reads OpenAPI or GraphQL schemas, generates tool definitions, and uses DuckDB...
Anthropic, Infosys to Build Custom AI Agents for Firms
Anthropic and Infosys have announced a partnership to create custom AI agents for enterprises, combining Anthropic's Claude large language models, including Claude Code, with Infosys' Topaz AI platform. The collaboration targets sectors such as telecommunications and financial services, aiming to automate...
China AI Startup Moonshot Targets $10 Billion Valuation
Moonshot, the Chinese AI startup behind the Kimi chatbot, is launching a new financing round that targets a $10 billion valuation. The company previously secured $500 million at a $4.3 billion valuation, and its existing backers—Alibaba, Tencent and 5Y Capital—have already committed more...
Interview: CyrusOne on the Sustainable Innovation that Drives Datacentre Business Outcomes
CyrusOne’s vice‑president of environmental, health, safety and sustainability, Kyle Myers, says the company treats sustainability as a profit centre rather than a cost centre. By centralising ESG functions into a cross‑functional working group, CyrusOne has integrated green‑building standards across its...
Dell VP Says Discrete Beats Disaggregated Storage for AI
Dell VP David Noy announced that discrete storage architectures outperform disaggregated designs for large‑scale AI workloads, reversing Dell’s earlier promotion of disaggregation. He cites PowerScale’s integrated controller‑drive chassis as delivering lower rack space, fewer switches, and reduced power consumption. The...
Micron's World-First PCIe Gen 6 SSD Doubles Data Rates for AI Data Centers
Micron has begun mass production of the 9650 NVMe SSD, the world’s first PCIe Gen6 storage device. The drive delivers up to 28,000 MB/s sequential reads and 14,000 MB/s writes, roughly doubling Gen5 bandwidth while staying within a 25 W power envelope. Capacities range...
French AI Cloud Startup Policloud Plans 1,000 Sovereign Micro-Data Center Deployments by 2030
Policloud, a French AI‑focused cloud startup, announced a plan to deploy up to 1,000 sovereign micro‑data centers by 2030, delivering more than 250,000 GPUs. The company has already installed eight sites across France, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the United...
Vibhor Kumar: Pg_background: Make Postgres Do the Long Work (While Your Session Stays Light)
pg_background is a PostgreSQL extension that runs SQL statements asynchronously in dedicated background worker processes, letting client sessions stay lightweight. The new v2 API introduces a PID‑plus‑cookie handle that safeguards against PID reuse bugs, making long‑running jobs more reliable. Recent...
SK Hynix Proposes HBM and HBF Hybrid for LLM Inference
SK Hynix unveiled H³, a hybrid architecture that couples high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) with high‑bandwidth flash (HBF) on a single interposer to accelerate large‑language‑model (LLM) inference. HBF provides up to 16× the capacity of HBM while maintaining comparable bandwidth, serving as...
Cubbit Powers Swiss Cantonal-Level Sovereign Cloud for Ailanto
IT integrator Ailanto announced a sovereign cloud service for Swiss organizations built on Cubbit’s DS3 Composer software‑defined object storage. The offering launches with 1 PB of capacity hosted in Swiss‑based data centres and will expand later in 2026. It provides S3‑compatible,...
TomTom Partners to Support Data-Driven Mobility and Infrastructure Planning
TomTom has entered a strategic partnership with engineering firm AECOM to embed TomTom’s high‑resolution mobility data into AECOM’s global planning workflows. The collaboration gives AECOM access to precise traffic, safety and congestion insights, enabling more accurate, data‑driven decisions for road...
New GraphRAG Solution Moves Beyond Vector-Only RAG – Knowledge Graphs Provide Context and Common Sense to AI
Graphwise unveiled GraphRAG, a low‑code AI workflow engine that replaces flat vector‑only retrieval with a knowledge‑graph‑backed semantic layer. The platform claims to cut hallucinations and boost answer accuracy from about 60 % to over 90 % by grounding large language models in...
Tract’s Fleet Data Centers Seeks $3.8bn to Fuel Nevada Build-Out
Fleet Data Centers, the development arm of Tract, announced a $3.8 billion senior secured note issuance to fund a 230 MW data center campus in Reno, Nevada. The facility, built on a 252‑acre site, is 100 percent leased to an unnamed investment‑grade tenant...
From Tea to Tech: UK’s Halma Rides Wave of Hyperscaler Spending
Halma Plc, a FTSE 100 firm with roots in 19th‑century tea plantations, is benefiting from a surge in AI‑driven data‑center spending by hyperscalers. The company’s shares have climbed for eight consecutive sessions, reaching an all‑time high. Analysts at Barclays and JPMorgan...
Fossefall Targets Data Center in Harpefoss, Norway
Norwegian data‑center specialists Fossefall and Polar DC are unveiling new projects aimed at scaling AI‑focused, renewable‑powered facilities. Fossefall plans a data centre on the former Harpefoss childcare site, part of its ambition to reach 500 MW of clean AI infrastructure by 2030,...
Blackstone-Owned Link Logistics Files to Develop Data Center Campus Outside Atlanta, Georgia
Blackstone‑owned Link Logistics, through its affiliate B9 Union City Owner LLC, has filed a Developments of Regional Impact application to build a new data‑center campus called the Crossings outside Union City, Georgia. The 231‑acre site could host up to five...
South Korean Cloud Firm Okestro Could Build 5MW Data Center
South Korean cloud provider Okestro has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with data‑center developer DC Korea to construct a 5 MW facility at Okestro’s headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul. DC Korea will handle design and construction while Okestro will supply cloud‑orchestration services...
Telkom Indonesia Revisits NeutraDC Sale Plans - Report
Telkom Indonesia is re‑engaging advisors to sell a majority stake in its data‑center subsidiary NeutraDC, targeting a valuation between $1 billion and $1.5 billion. The company previously explored a sale in 2022 and considered minority stakes in 2024, with Goldman Sachs and...
Solaris Energy Signs 500MW AI Data Center Power Deal
Solaris Energy Infrastructure announced a long‑term equipment‑rental agreement to provide more than 500 MW of power‑generation capacity to Hatchbo, an AI‑focused data‑center operator. The rental term begins on January 1 2027 and runs for ten years, with an option to extend for an...
Natwest Group CEO Touts Near-Term Agentic AI Workflow Future
NatWest Group CEO Paul Thwaite announced that the bank is shifting from basic chatbots to autonomous AI systems capable of executing complex banking workflows for customers. He expects many of the underlying components to be operational within the year. However,...
AMD Takes on Nvidia in India With Expanded Tata AI Partnership
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced a partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to bring its Helios AI data‑center blueprint to India. The collaboration aims to deploy up to 200 megawatts of AI‑infrastructure capacity, positioning AMD against Nvidia in the rapidly expanding...
Qatar Advances Sovereign Cloud Strategy to Strengthen Digital Trust and National Autonomy
Qatar is accelerating a sovereign cloud strategy to keep sensitive data under domestic law, leveraging its Personal Data Privacy Protection Law as a regulatory backbone. Deloitte’s Cloud Centre of Excellence in Lusail is driving the effort, having migrated over 3,000...
Europe Is Coming After Infinite Scroll – TikTok's Endless Feed Is Now a Legal Problem
The European Commission has formally accused TikTok of designing its endless‑scroll feed to be addictive, especially for minors, and is treating this as a systemic risk under the Digital Services Act. The preliminary ruling targets infinite scroll, algorithmic recommendations and...