Reddit users faced widespread outages on December 9th, with over 22,000 reports on Downdetector. This follows a major global outage the day before, on December 8th, affecting the website, app, and servers. It’s part of a troubling trend of major platform failures this year.
A massive new data center campus is moving forward in Nevada. The Lyon County Board of Commissioners has approved rezoning 505 acres of agricultural land for the ‘Monarch Data Center’ project, spearheaded by developer Copia Power.
This week’s tech winners are making serious channel plays. AWS launched new AI competencies and MSP incentives at re:Invent, while ServiceNow is buying identity security firm Veza for at least $1 billion. Meanwhile, Wiz is refreshing its partner program despite its pending Google acquisition.
Cloudflare experienced a brief but significant service disruption early Friday, impacting its Dashboard and APIs. The company confirmed it was caused by a software update, not an attack, and was resolved within about 30 minutes. This follows another major outage in mid-November.
The open-source virtualization platform Proxmox has released the first stable version of its Datacenter Manager. This new tool provides centralized management for distributed Proxmox clusters, a feature long associated with VMware. It marks a significant step in Proxmox’s ambition to be a full priva
HPE is seeing massive momentum from its Juniper Networks acquisition, leading to a huge boost in its financial forecast. The company is betting its future on becoming a networking and AI powerhouse.
Amazon’s new Graviton5 CPU crams 192 cores into a single socket, promising 25% higher performance. It’s part of a massive shift, with Graviton now accounting for over half of all new CPU capacity added to AWS in the last three years.
SC Zeus Data Centers has broken ground on its first Japanese facility, Zeus OSA1, in Osaka. The 13,955 sqm campus will offer 70MW of IT load and support high-density liquid cooling. This marks the real estate firm’s major entry into the APAC data center market.
AWS’s big conference is in full swing, with a relentless focus on AI agents that can operate autonomously. The company also announced new AI chips and, to many customers’ relief, long-awaited database discounts.
The Indian government has withdrawn a controversial order that would have forced smartphone makers to preinstall an undeletable government safety app. The reversal came after major pushback from Apple and Samsung, who argued it created security and privacy risks.
