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Domain Days Dubai 2025 will take place on 22–23 October at the Marriott Resort Palm Jumeirah, uniting global and regional leaders in domains, hosting, and cloud. This year’s agenda dives into Web3, domain fractionalisation, new gTLD launches, and cybersecurity, with experts from organizations like Unstoppable Domains, TDRA, and INTA. The two-day event blends insights with exclusive networking, marking the Middle East’s premier forum on digital presence and innovation.

Amazon Web Services has appointed Stéphane Israël as managing director of its European Sovereign Cloud, starting October. Based in Berlin, Israël will oversee infrastructure, services, and sales while driving AWS’s global digital sovereignty strategy. The former Arianespace CEO, known for leading landmark space missions including the James Webb Telescope launch, brings deep expertise in European technology and regulation as AWS readies its €7.8 billion sovereign cloud rollout by late 2025.

IREN, formerly Iris Energy, has doubled its AI cloud capacity to 23,000 GPUs, accelerating its pivot from crypto to compute. The firm purchased $674 million worth of Nvidia B200s, B300s, and AMD MI350Xs, with staged deliveries set for its Prince George data center in Canada. The 10MW liquid-cooled facility under construction will host more than 4,500 GB300s, underscoring IREN’s rapid scale-up to meet soaring AI demand.

Gcore says DDoS attacks rose 41% in early 2025 as hackers pushed longer, multi-vector campaigns that evade defenses. The company flagged Hong Kong as a new hotspot while noting a surge in strikes on financial services and tech firms. Application-layer assaults now drive nearly 40% of incidents, showing attackers increasingly target web apps and APIs to cause outages that directly hit end users.

Oracle has secured $18 billion in debt financing to accelerate its AI-driven data center expansion, underscoring the staggering costs of meeting hyperscale demand. The funds, raised through long-term bonds maturing as late as 2065, will back massive infrastructure projects tied to partnerships with OpenAI and other cloud clients. With $455 billion in contracts pending, Oracle is betting heavily on AI as the defining driver of its next growth era.

TVU Networks and Tencent Cloud have teamed up to launch a cloud-based production solution aimed at reshaping how broadcasters handle live media. By merging TVU’s microservice-driven workflows with Tencent’s infrastructure, the system enables ultra-low latency streaming, elastic scaling, and AI-powered automation. Already proven at global sports and news events, the partnership highlights how broadcasters can reduce costs, streamline operations, and scale production in real time.