Dell expands private cloud offering through Nutanix partnership
Dell Technologies has announced deeper integration between its PowerStore storage platform and the Nutanix Cloud Platform, making it easier for organizations to deploy and manage private cloud environments. Editorial credit: Samuel Boivin / Shutterstock The new solution combines Dell's enterprise storage infrastructure with Nutanix's hyperconverged software, enabling businesses to build scalable, high performance private clouds while simplifying deployment and day-to-day oper
Oracle signs 10-Year Pentagon software contract worth up to $7 billion
Oracle has secured a landmark 10-year enterprise software agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense worth up to $6.99 billion, marking one of the Pentagon's largest software procurement deals in recent years. Editorial credit: Tigarto / Shutterstock The agreement is designed to consolidate thousands of fragmented Oracle software purchases across the U.S. military into a single enterprise-wide contract, reducing costs, strengthening cybersecurity, and accelerating the Defe
Nationwide resistance to AI data center buildout reaches fever pitch across 42 US states
Activists in the US staged 142 separate protests spanning 42 states on Saturday, July 18, 2026, marking a historic, highly organized escalation in public resistance to the physical footprint of the AI boom. The nationwide day of action was orchestrated by HumansFirst, an emerging advocacy group co-founded by former Tea Party movement leaders. Organizers argue that local communities have been entirely shut out of the approval process, with town boards routinely signing restric
UK directs Bank of England to regulate Microsoft, Google, and Amazon Cloud Services
The British government has officially designated the world’s largest cloud service providers as "Critical Third Parties" (CTPs). The landmark policy shift subjects Big Tech infrastructure directly to the oversight of the UK's top financial regulators, including the Bank of England, to protect the nation's financial grid from catastrophic systemic collapses or coordinated cyberattacks. Editorial credit: Zeynep Demir Aslim / Shutterstock The emergency regulations, which take ef
Meta prepares to sell excess AI compute in direct challenge to AWS and Microsoft
In a major structural shift that redefines its corporate identity, Meta Platforms is preparing to enter the public cloud infrastructure market. The social media giant plans to commercially lease its vast, underutilized artificial intelligence computing clusters to enterprise clients, putting the company in direct competition with cloud titans Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Editorial credit: El editorial / Shutterstock The initiative, internally
