Coreweave gobbles rival in $9bn share swap
Data centre land grab or cash-saving sleight of hand?
CoreWeave has wasted no time splashing the cashless after its IPO. Just three months since floating, the US data centre outfit is shelling out $9 billion worth of shares to acquire Core Scientific in what’s being sold as a bold expansion move.
Oracle flings cloud discount at Trump government
Ellison cuddles up to federal wallets
Oracle is slashing prices for its software and cloud services to please the Trump administration, offering what it calls a “substantial” discount on its cloudy wares and 75 per cent off on licence-based database and analytics products.
Nvidia sharpens its claws for a cloud coup
Cloud giants may regret arming the AI kingpin
Cloud computing has been a licence to print money for Amazon.com, Microsoft and Google but now the gravy train faces a fresh threat from AI cloud specialists and Nvidia.
AI threats and zero-trust mandates are driving a $26bn boom
Beancounters working for the Dell’Oro Group have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and worked out that while everyone is banking on about hardware cybersecurity, particularly of the cloudy sort, is where the cash is.
Node4 report suggests hybrid is the new black
Nearly all mid-market companies are eyeing a cloud exit, according to fresh research from Node4, with 97 per cent planning to shift some workloads off the public cloud in the next year.