#cloud-infrastructure

#cloud-infrastructure

Since the bulk of the company's revenue comes from advertising fees tied to search, any erosion in Google's market share seemingly poses an existential threat to Alphabet's financial engine. On the surface, this bearish narrative is compelling. But the reality is far more nuanced. Alphabet's financial resilience, strategic partnerships, and product evolution suggests that the company is not only prepared to defend its turf but may also emerge stronger in the face of rising competition.

Azerion, the leading European digital advertising company, is proud to announce a comprehensive rebranding, unveiling a fresh visual identity, a newly designed website, and a revitalised presence across social platforms, highlighted by the brand's dynamic new tagline 'Everyone. Everywhere'. This rebranding marks a significant milestone in Azerion's journey, reflecting its evolution into a more accessible, globally connected platform. Azerion connects audiences to advertisers using proprietary technology, local expertise, and premium inventory to drive measurable omnichannel outcomes in the places that matter to clients. This refined brand promise is core to Azerion's new identity: combining human connection with digital innovation to help clients succeed across channels, formats, and geographies.

The 81-year-old cofounder of software giant Oracle is on the verge of beating out Elon Musk for the title of world's richest person. Ellison, who cofounded Oracle in the '70s and is still its chief technology officer and executive chairman, saw his net worth skyrocket over the past day to $364 billion, just short of Musk's $384 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index.

Early-stage founders, take note. The Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 will feature a powerhouse panel of seasoned investors sharing where their firms are placing bets for 2026 and beyond. Joining us onstage Nina Achadjian, partner, Index Ventures - focused on automating overlooked industries and investing across AI, robotics, and vertical SaaS. , general partner, Greylock - backing product-driven founders in AI, data, cloud infrastructure, and open source. Viviana Faga, general partner, Felicis - bringing two decades of expertise in scaling go-to-market SaaS, category creation, and brand strategy.

Lambda Inc., a cloud infrastructure firm, is negotiating a funding round that could value it at $4 billion to $5 billion ahead of a potential IPO.

Sustainable optimization starts when leaders reframe the conversation: From seeing costs as an external burden imposed by finance to recognizing them as an integral signal of engineering health.

Customers can migrate Oracle Database workloads to Oracle Database@AWS on OCI in AWS, supporting Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Oracle Database 23ai with AI Vector functionality.

"We're addressing the number one complaint of Kubernetes, which is complexity," said Miska Kaipiainen, head of product for Lens at Mirantis. "Lens Prism puts the power of a site reliability engineer (SRE) inside every developer's IDE. It removes friction from day-to-day Kubernetes operations while maintaining enterprise-grade security and control."

Launched in January 2025 by a consortium of eight European tech organizations coordinated by OpenNebula Systems, Virt8ra aims to establish a sovereign and interoperable cloud ecosystem across the European Union.

In our journey with ElasticScale, it's become increasingly clear how much SaaS leaders and their dev teams relate to the problems we address: Infrastructure that's too complex, too costly, and too distracting.

Failing to recognize the need for CAM leads to additional problems. The financial aspect is the most paramount and urgent. Untracked and unmanaged resources such as idle virtual machines or overallocated storage accumulate costs that are often unnoticed until they appear on a bloated monthly statement.

The investment will go toward establishing three availability zones, or groups of isolated data centers, in the new AWS region.