The company formerly known as Pure Storage has formally brought a focus to its platform as an active cyber defender. It is a strategic shift with implications for every vendor in the enterprise storage market.

VAST Data has closed its Series F financing round at a $30 billion valuation, more than tripling the $9.1 billion it commanded at its Series E in late 2023 and placing the data infrastructure company among the most richly valued privately held businesses built around the AI buildout.

Five sweeping announcements at its .NEXT 2026 conference in Chicago cover alliances with NetApp and MongoDB, bare-metal Kubernetes, a neocloud AI platform, and a direct pitch to VMware's displaced channel partners. Together, they mark Nutanix's most consequential platform bet since it shipped its first hyperconverged appliance. The timing is not coincidental. Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has set off the largest involuntary re-platforming cycle in enterprise IT in a decade, and Nutanix intends to be the primary beneficiary.

As AI deployments scale, organisations are discovering that fragmented metrics between platforms are a structural liability. OSI — and Denodo's participation in it — is a bet on fixing that at the specification level.

Local infrastructure is live, the certifications are in place, and the procurement doors are open. For ManageEngine, the real work in the Gulf is only now beginning.

88% of organisations now run hybrid or multi-cloud environments, yet two-thirds lack confidence in real-time threat detection. Drawing on the 2026 Fortinet Cloud Security Report and Fortinet EMEA CISO Alain Sanchez, this article explores why the shift from prevention to resilience is reshaping enterprise cybersecurity.

New Sell With Confluent initiative offers system integrators automated tools, transparent pricing and co-investment funds as the IBM-backed company targets its growing partner network

The flash storage company is rebranding and making its biggest strategic bet yet — turning raw enterprise data into AI-ready intelligence.

The enterprise software provider has launched a new index-based pricing framework tying government subscription fees to World Bank income classifications, aiming to make digital infrastructure more accessible and predictable for public-sector organisations globally.

Khazna Data Centers has unveiled Thuraya, a structured graduate development programme designed to prepare early-career engineers for mission-critical roles, reinforcing the UAE’s long-term ambition to build sovereign AI infrastructure capability.

As AI systems move deeper into operations, the real control point is shifting upstream. The teams that manage data are becoming the ones who decide what organisations can safely automate — and what they cannot.

VAST Data did not set out to build an “AI operating system.” But as GPUs, memory, and data pipelines strained under real-world AI workloads, its storage platform evolved into something closer to infrastructure coordination than storage alone.

Cloudflare says Q4 2025 included “only a single government-directed Internet shutdown.” The bigger story was infrastructure: cable cuts, power outages, weather events, and technical issues across providers and platforms.

As farming becomes more data-dependent, Unifrutti’s reliance on Veeam shows how resilience has replaced innovation as the priority in global food systems.

New data from the 2026 Cloud Security Report shows why rising budgets and expanding tools have failed to improve cloud resilience — and why regions like the Middle East face amplified risk as complexity outpaces security operating models.

Cloudflare is bringing the creators of the Astro web framework into the company, backing the open-source project to accelerate development and help brands and publishers build faster, content-driven websites that perform better in search and for users.

The internet infrastructure company says the deal will help creators control, price, and sell content to AI developers, as pressure mounts over how models source data.

As AI platforms reshape how content is consumed and monetised, Cloudflare is making a counter-move  - embedding consent, security, and creator protection into the Internet’s infrastructure rather than the platform layer.