IBM is making its biggest acquisition in years, buying data infrastructure firm Confluent for $11 billion. The deal, announced at a 50% premium to Confluent’s recent share price, is a direct play to capture more of the booming AI and real-time data market.
Cloudflare says its global outage on Friday, December 5th, was self-inflicted while trying to patch the critical React2Shell vulnerability. The flaw, disclosed on December 3rd, is already being exploited by Chinese state-backed groups.
OpenAI is reportedly in advanced talks with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for a potential Stargate data center project in India. The discussions also involve plans to co-create agentic AI solutions for business clients.
The massive Stargate data center project in Michigan, backed by OpenAI and Oracle, is facing organized opposition. State representatives are now pushing for a lengthy “contested hearing” over its utility deal, arguing the public needs more scrutiny.
In a historic shift, AWS and Google Cloud announced a joint solution to seamlessly connect their platforms. This collaboration, driven by customer demand for multicloud, is a direct challenge to Microsoft and a death knell for many middleware vendors.
Content delivery giant Akamai is acquiring Fermyon, a leader in server-side WebAssembly technology. The deal, announced December 1, follows over a year of partnership between the two companies. It marks a major vote of confidence in Wasm for distributed edge computing.
AWS is adding crucial new capabilities to its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform. The updates focus on giving developers more control and insight into how their AI agents operate.
Carrier Connect is expanding its data center portfolio with the acquisition of Ottawa-based PureColo. The deal involves 4.6 million common shares and US$2.3 million in cash. PureColo brings two facilities and about 60 customers into the fold.
BlackRock is partnering with AWS to host its Aladdin investment platform in the cloud. The service, which once managed over $21 trillion in assets, will become generally available in the US in the second half of 2026. Amazon itself will use it to manage its corporate investment portfolio.
Airbus started moving its 130,000 employees from Microsoft Office to Google Workspace over seven years ago. Today, more than a third of its 150,000-person workforce still relies on Microsoft tools due to technical and compliance hurdles.
