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IT Infrastructure News 30 June 2025 - 4 November 2025

Amazon’s $2.5 Billion Cloud Outage: How an AI Glitch Broke the Internet – Again

Amazon’s $2.5 Billion Cloud Outage: How an AI Glitch Broke the Internet – Again

AWS Outage “Breaks the Internet” in October 2025 Late last month, Amazon Web Services – the world’s largest cloud provider – experienced a catastrophic outage that many dubbed an “internet blackout.” The trouble began on October 19, 2025 (Monday), inside AWS’s busiest data center hub in Northern Virginia (US-East-1). According to Amazon, a “DNS resolution issue” in that region set off a chain reaction of failures techcrunch.com. In simpler terms, part of the internet’s “phone book” stopped working properly. Specifically, AWS’s internal Domain Name System (DNS) – which translates service names to network locations – suddenly couldn’t find the address
Dell’s AI Server Boom Doubles Growth Forecasts – Is a Data Center Glut Looming?

Dell’s AI Server Boom Doubles Growth Forecasts – Is a Data Center Glut Looming?

Dell Bets Big on AI – Doubling Growth Targets Dell’s announcement on October 7, 2025 marked a turning point for the company’s trajectory. At an analyst meeting that day, the tech giant dramatically raised its long-term financial forecasts, effectively doubling the pace at which it expects to expand in coming years ts2.tech. Management now projects high-single-digit percentage revenue growth (7–9% annually) and at least mid-teens earnings growth through 2029 reuters.com ts2.tech – a remarkable upgrade from the prior “GDP-plus” style targets (~3–4% revenue and ~8% EPS growth). The bold new goals signal far greater confidence in future demand, driven almost
How Machine Learning Works and Why It’s Changing Everything in 2025

The Containerized Data Center Boom: How “Data Centers in a Box” Are Revolutionizing IT (Market to Hit $43B by 2030)

What Are Containerized Data Centers? Containerized data centers – often dubbed “data centers in a box” – are modular data center solutions built inside standardized shipping containers or similar portable structures. In practice, this means all the typical infrastructure of a data center (server racks, networking gear, power distribution units, cooling systems, fire suppression, security systems, etc.) is pre-installed inside a metal container at the factory statetechmagazine.com. The entire unit is delivered as a turnkey product to the customer’s site, where it only needs power, network, and cooling hookups to go live. This concept dates back to the mid-2000s. Notably,
Cloud Computing and XaaS Developments (May–June 2025)

Cloud Computing and XaaS Developments (May–June 2025)

In May 2025, Salesforce announced a definitive agreement to acquire data management firm Informatica for $8 billion. In May 2025, Microsoft announced a partnership with xAI to host Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini on Azure via the Azure AI Foundry service. On May 22, 2025, Red Hat and AMD announced an expanded collaboration to optimize AI workloads in hybrid cloud environments. On May 9, 2025, IBM announced a cloud partnership with Oracle to run IBM’s watsonx AI tools on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). On May 15, 2025, Kyndryl and Microsoft expanded distributed cloud services to enhance hybrid, multicloud, and
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