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A severed cable and two misconfigured PLCs: how Google Cloud lost an entire London zone for nearly eight hours, and took down twelve services with it.
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A severed cable and two misconfigured PLCs: how Google Cloud lost an entire London zone for nearly eight hours, and took down twelve services with it.

Azure posts 48% growth and discloses its exact quarterly revenue for the first time: $33.2 billion. What this means for enterprise IT leaders.

A power outage in a single Google Cloud availability zone in London paralysed banks, courts and logistics operations across the UK for eight hours.

Four days. Three datacenters offline. 84 services down, traffic at 0.4%. What Yandex's collapse reveals about cloud resilience architecture.

The OVH–Orange peering outage of October 2, 2026 exposed a blind spot common in enterprise BCPs: the network interconnection and routing layer.

Alibaba Cloud announces three new European regions, Netherlands, Finland, and Turkey, within a $53 billion, three-year investment plan targeting 2032.

Three times faster than the M890, T-Head's Zhenwu V900 can unify 500,000 accelerators in a single cluster. Mass production targets Q1 2027.

Broadcom silently pulled public access to VDDK, the SDK that Azure Migrate, Nutanix Move, and Red Hat all depend on for VMware exit migrations.

Two outages in August 2026, including 7h47 of downtime on the 17th: GitHub's postmortem reveals how an auto-scaling blind spot can paralyze a global platform.

ExaDB-XS brings Exadata to AWS on a pure consumption model starting at 8 ECPUs, what this pricing shift means for data teams in practice.

With a $240M multi-year deal with Together AI, IBM is staking its cloud future on AI inference, not on catching up with AWS, Azure, or Google.

OVHcloud announces price increases of up to 87% on gaming servers. A global DRAM shortage is rapidly eroding European cloud's long-held cost advantage.

Atlassian's record quarter, $1.77bn in revenue and +31% cloud growth, is resetting the bar for what B2B enterprise SaaS suites must deliver.

Cloudflare OS reveals how to solve multi-tenant isolation in production using Dynamic Workers, sandboxed SQLite databases, and zero-trust Gatekeepers.

AWS, Google, and Microsoft are committing $595 billion to infrastructure in 2026, and still openly admit they cannot meet all of the AI demand.

An AWS billing glitch displayed up to $2.5 billion on dashboards for accounts spending just cents. What it reveals about cloud financial governance.

Amazon raises $25 billion in bonds to fund its datacenters, a clear signal that cloud is now financed like critical infrastructure, and what that means for CIOs.

Jalapeño, OpenAI's custom inference ASIC built with Broadcom, promises to cut LLM running costs in half. Here's what CIOs need to factor in.