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The Indian government has withdrawn a controversial order that would have forced smartphone makers to preinstall an undeletable government safety app.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.
The Bolivian Attorney General’s Office has broken ground on a new data center to serve as the judicial system’s technological backbone. The project, partially funded by the EU, will be built in two phases targeting high-availability international standards.
Wholesale fiber operator Onivia is making a major move in Spain. It’s nearly doubling its fiber footprint and, for the first time, adding mobile services via Vodafone’s network to offer full convergence.
