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Google launches AlloyDB Omni RPM orchestrator for servers
DevOps

Google launches AlloyDB Omni RPM orchestrator for servers

Enterprises running PostgreSQL on servers can now automate failover, backups and scaling on-premises as Google broadens AlloyDB Omni support.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Today
Algolia names Chung & Servantez to AI growth roles
Software-as-a-Service

Algolia names Chung & Servantez to AI growth roles

The appointments bolster Algolia's push into enterprise AI, as it seeks to turn search into a trusted retrieval layer for customer data.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • 3 days ago
SUSE named Gartner Leader for container management
Software-as-a-Service

SUSE named Gartner Leader for container management

The ranking bolsters SUSE's pitch to businesses wanting one control plane for containers, virtual machines and AI workloads across mixed environments.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • 3 days ago
Tuned Global boosts music ingestion tenfold with AWS
Software-as-a-Service

Tuned Global boosts music ingestion tenfold with AWS

Onboarding large catalogues now takes days rather than weeks, as the platform can ingest up to 20 million tracks a day after its AWS overhaul.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 5 min read • 4 days ago
SIOS survey finds outages persist despite resilience spend
Virtualisation

SIOS survey finds outages persist despite resilience spend

More than half of IT leaders remain unhappy with their resilience setups, as 76% still reported outages lasting over 10 minutes last year.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • 5 days ago
Yahoo cuts Spark cluster failures by 85% with flexible VMs
Data Analytics

Yahoo cuts Spark cluster failures by 85% with flexible VMs

Google Cloud's fallback machine selection has helped Yahoo keep analytics jobs running, cutting Spark cluster provisioning failures by 85%.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • 5 days ago
Würth Elektronik speeds CAD access with file locking
Disaster Recovery

Würth Elektronik speeds CAD access with file locking

Engineers now open CAD files in seconds instead of minutes, after a global file system reduced version conflicts across three continents.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Last week
Microsoft, DE-CIX launch Azure Metro in five cities
Disaster Recovery

Microsoft, DE-CIX launch Azure Metro in five cities

Customers in five cities gain backup Azure routes designed to keep AI and critical enterprise workloads online if one link fails.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Last week
Google unveils Cloud Run instances for always-on AI agents
Software-as-a-Service

Google unveils Cloud Run instances for always-on AI agents

Persistent AI agents can now run for up to seven days on Google Cloud Run instances, with fixed endpoints and no autoscaling.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month
Google Cloud urges fallback planning for AI workloads
Virtualisation

Google Cloud urges fallback planning for AI workloads

Enterprises facing AI demand spikes are being told to secure spare capacity and automate backups to avoid outages and overspending.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last month
Google Cloud launches fault injection testing preview
Disaster Recovery

Google Cloud launches fault injection testing preview

Fault testing aims to cut outage risk for cloud users as Google Cloud previews a tool that simulates failures before customers are hit.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Last month
Grafana Labs tops 10,000 customers as AI demand rises
Software-as-a-Service

Grafana Labs tops 10,000 customers as AI demand rises

Rising AI deployments are helping drive broader platform use, with most customers now buying several Grafana products and costs falling.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 5 min read • Last month
Kimi.ai picks TiDB for AI app data at massive scale
Software-as-a-Service

Kimi.ai picks TiDB for AI app data at massive scale

The move could cut costs and delays for millions of AI-built apps by giving each one an isolated database in about a second.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last month
Rocket Software adds AI tools for IBM i modernisation
Disaster Recovery

Rocket Software adds AI tools for IBM i modernisation

AI tools are being added to legacy IBM systems as firms struggle to modernise core software amid persistent skills shortages.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Last month
EDB launches disaster recovery for WarehousePG analytics
Data Protection

EDB launches disaster recovery for WarehousePG analytics

Customers running petabyte-scale analytics can now recover full WarehousePG clusters after site outages, cutting downtime and data-loss risk.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last month
Google named Gartner leader for cloud-native platforms
Disaster Recovery

Google named Gartner leader for cloud-native platforms

The recognition underlines Google Cloud's push to keep developers on one platform as enterprises move AI agents from prototypes into production.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last month
Google Cloud adds Hive Metastore migration to Lakehouse
Data governance

Google Cloud adds Hive Metastore migration to Lakehouse

The serverless catalog could ease a bottleneck for large Spark workloads by moving Hive table metadata without copying underlying data.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month

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Forrester says India enterprises favour hybrid cloud
Disaster Recovery

Forrester says India enterprises favour hybrid cloud

Most Indian firms now run workloads across public, private and on-premises systems, as cost, resilience and sovereignty concerns reshape cloud plans.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • 2 days ago