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Black Box has entered a strategic partnership with Wind River to advance intelligent edge and private cloud deployments across industries from automotive to telecom. The collaboration combines Wind River’s Cloud Platform and eLxr Pro with Black Box’s global integration expertise, enabling enterprises to scale, secure, and modernize infrastructure. The initiative also marks Black Box’s expansion into hyperconverged and edge computing, reinforcing its role in digital infrastructure transformation.

Global cloud provider Dade2 has partnered with Argentine telecom leader Orbith to launch ORBITH Cloud, expanding the nation’s digital capabilities beyond satellite connectivity. The new service offers high-speed processing, performance stability, and cost efficiencies tailored for government and enterprise use. Positioned as a sovereign alternative, ORBITH Cloud aims to strengthen Argentina’s digital transformation by combining local reliability with enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure.

IBM has launched Network Intelligence, a new AI-driven cloud service built to help companies tame increasingly fragmented IT environments spanning data centers, multi-clouds, and SaaS apps. Powered by IBM’s watsonx and Granite Time Series Foundation Models, the platform uses specialized AI agents to detect hidden issues, anticipate outages, and streamline problem-solving—moving network teams from reactive firefighting to proactive management.

Leaseweb has introduced NVIDIA L4 GPUs to its Public Cloud platform, bringing GPU acceleration into its sovereign European cloud for the first time. The launch offers enterprises flexible, pay-per-use access to AI-ready infrastructure without relying on hyperscalers. Supporting applications from machine learning to video rendering, the service combines performance, cost efficiency, and data sovereignty—positioning Leaseweb as an alternative for organizations navigating compute-heavy workloads across Europe.

The OpenStack community has rolled out its 32nd release, Flamingo, as deployments surpass 55 million cores worldwide. The update underscores OpenStack’s expanding role in powering AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing, while introducing critical advances in security, sustainability, and technical debt reduction. With major enterprises and SMBs alike adopting the platform, analysts project the OpenStack market could soar past $91 billion by 2029, cementing its role as a VMware alternative.

Domain registrar Porkbun has crossed the 3 million domain milestone, adding one million names in just 15 months. The achievement follows top rankings from Forbes Advisor and USA Today, cementing its reputation among registrars. Recent partnerships with Proton Mail and Automattic’s WP Cloud, alongside new AI and website-building tools, highlight Porkbun’s push to expand services as it scales toward its next million.