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Google Cloud touts sharded fix for noisy neighbours

Shared data platforms could see outages contained to one tenant, as Google Cloud says a new sharded design cuts blast radius and eases scaling.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month

Customer Experience

Target rebuilds product discovery on Google Cloud Spanner

The retailer said the overhaul cut infrastructure maintenance by 50% and improved product recommendations, ratings and Gift Finder responses.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Last month

Digital Transformation

Deutsche Bank adopts Google Cloud's Apigee for APIs

The bank says a single platform will tighten security, improve resilience and help it support open banking, partners and AI-driven services.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last month

Hybrid Cloud

Google Cloud launches AI tools for mainframe migration

Banks and insurers could cut migration risk as Google Cloud's new AI suite maps legacy logic, tests parity and shifts data incrementally.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month

Hybrid Cloud

F5 & NVIDIA tie up on AI guardrails for production

Centralised oversight for AI traffic should help firms cut prompt-injection and data-leakage risks as models shift into production.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Fri, 31st Jul 2026

Data Protection

Adfinis wins Red Hat OpenShift certification for Secretz Enterprise

OpenShift users now have a validated way to deploy Secretz Enterprise through the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog, including offline sites.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Thu, 30th Jul 2026

Software-as-a-Service

groundcover raises USD $100 million in Series C round

It will fund North American expansion and product development as observability demand rises with cloud and AI workloads, after revenue tripled.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Thu, 30th Jul 2026

DevOps

Grafana launches six AI tools for development teams

The release aims to help teams catch failures earlier as AI takes a larger role in coding, operations and incident response.

By Mark Tarre • 5 min read • Wed, 29th Jul 2026

Software-as-a-Service

Kong opens Milan & Paris offices amid Europe growth

Customer demand across Europe has fuelled a 72% rise in Kong's regional base, prompting new offices in Milan and Paris.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Mon, 27th Jul 2026

Software-as-a-Service

Kellton Tech revenue rises 6.8% as AI push expands

AI-led work lifted Kellton Tech's first-quarter revenue, though profit stayed well below turnover as it expanded across energy and finance.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Fri, 24th Jul 2026

DevOps

meshIQ benchmark finds no single messaging broker wins

The benchmark underscores that broker choice depends on workload, with each contender excelling in different durable messaging tests.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Fri, 24th Jul 2026

Gaming

SOFTSWISS launches Warsaw summit on high-load systems

More than 1,000 engineers and executives are expected in Warsaw as digital firms face mounting pressure to keep systems fast and reliable at scale.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Tue, 21st Jul 2026

DevOps

BellSoft launches hardened Paketo builder for containers

Security and compliance teams can now patch buildpack-based containers from a single hardened base, rather than chasing Dockerfiles across repositories.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Tue, 21st Jul 2026

Disaster Recovery

Google adds failover for multi-region Cloud Run services

Downtime risk is lower for apps running across multiple regions, as traffic can now shift to a healthy Cloud Run region within seconds.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Tue, 21st Jul 2026

Digital Transformation

BIAN appoints Uganda CIO Rita Akot to executive board

The appointment gives the standards body board-level East African representation as it seeks deeper ties with African banks modernising systems.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Mon, 20th Jul 2026

Digital Transformation

AI agents force enterprises to rethink infrastructure and governance

Enterprises face rising API traffic, tighter data controls and hidden costs as AI agents begin handling more workflows and queries.

By Sean Mitchell • 6 min read • Thu, 16th Jul 2026

Postgres

Google Cloud boosts AlloyDB search for CJK text with Gemini

Developers can now improve Chinese, Japanese and Korean search in AlloyDB without external tokenisers, cutting preprocessing overhead for PostgreSQL users.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Thu, 16th Jul 2026