BlackRock is moving its long-standing Aladdin investment platform onto AWS, giving financial institutions another route to run the system as multi-cloud strategies gain momentum. The shift also lets Amazon use Aladdin to manage its own global investment portfolio. BlackRock frames the move as an effort to give clients more control over how they deploy risk modeling and analytics, with US availability expected in late 2026.
Summit is taking a bigger swing at the hybrid infrastructure market by acquiring HorizonIQ, a move that brings automated bare metal provisioning, Proxmox support, and nine more data center regions under its umbrella. The deal gives Summit a wider toolkit for organizations that still need dedicated performance and tighter control than hyperscale clouds can offer. By blending automation with managed services, Summit aims to simplify how enterprises balance private and hybrid strategies.
Digital Realty opened its 12th data center in the Netherlands, adding 27MW of new capacity as Amsterdam strengthens its position as Europe’s busiest interconnection hub. The AMS11 site near Schiphol Airport supports high-density, AI-driven workloads and runs entirely on renewable power. The company integrated advanced liquid cooling to meet rising GPU needs, reflecting the Netherlands’ fast-climbing demand for scalable, sustainable digital infrastructure.
Firefly AI introduced a resilience-focused platform designed to close the widening gap between routine cloud backups and the ability to rebuild systems during major outages. The tool, Cloud Resilience Posture Management, tracks real-time configurations and dependencies to show whether critical workloads can restart elsewhere when a region fails. Its launch follows recent AWS and Azure disruptions that exposed how many organizations protect data but lack a recoverable runtime environment.
Infor deepened its work with AWS by bringing its Velocity Suite to AWS Marketplace and joining the first wave of partners for the upcoming AWS European Sovereign Cloud. The move gives industries facing strict data-residency rules a clearer path to modernize their operations while tapping Infor’s growing set of AI-driven tools. With sovereignty, automation, and compliance converging, Infor is positioning its cloud stack for a rapidly shifting regulatory landscape.
Digital Realty and Equinix have entered a tense bidding race for Nordic data center operator atNorth, as Partners Group seeks roughly €4.5 billion for the company. The deal would give either buyer a strategic foothold in new Nordic markets, including Iceland and Norway—territory neither currently serves. With atNorth expanding across Sweden, Finland, and Denmark, the outcome could reshape data center competition in one of Europe’s fastest-growing infrastructure hubs.
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