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Google Cloud unveils Agent Compute Engine for AI agents
Storage

Google Cloud unveils Agent Compute Engine for AI agents

The new service aims to make AI agents faster to start, cheaper to run and safer to isolate as cloud demand shifts beyond chatbots.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • Last week
Google adds AI & partner tools to air-gapped cloud
Data Analytics

Google adds AI & partner tools to air-gapped cloud

Defence and intelligence users can now query local text, audio and video with Gemini, without moving sensitive data outside their air-gapped perimeter.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last month
Google revises Site Reliability Engineering book for AI era
DevOps

Google revises Site Reliability Engineering book for AI era

The revised edition reflects how AI, microservices and multi-cloud deployments have made keeping production systems reliable more complex for engineers.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month
LocalStack acquires WonderTwin AI to boost local testing
Software-as-a-Service

LocalStack acquires WonderTwin AI to boost local testing

Teams testing software integrations could soon avoid live APIs and shared sandboxes, as LocalStack adds WonderTwin AI's application emulators.

By Raphael Veloso • 4 min read • Last month
Azul Prime cuts Java warm-up times with new compiler
Gaming

Azul Prime cuts Java warm-up times with new compiler

The update could reduce cloud costs and latency for autoscaling Java fleets, letting new instances reach full performance much faster on first request.

By Raphael Veloso • 3 min read • Last month
Kitestring & GK Software deepen retail tech partnership
Digital Transformation

Kitestring & GK Software deepen retail tech partnership

Retailers facing costly store-system upgrades may see faster deployments as the tie-up aims to reduce risk before point-of-sale roll-outs begin.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Thu, 1st Oct 2026
ASEAN leads world in AI observability, New Relic says
DevOps

ASEAN leads world in AI observability, New Relic says

Engineering teams in ASEAN are losing 47% of their capacity to disruptions as AI observability adoption outpaces global peers.

By Raphael Veloso • 4 min read • Mon, 28th Sep 2026
Percona & Coroot expand observability to databases
DevOps

Percona & Coroot expand observability to databases

Customers will get a broader view of outages as the tie-up links database support with tracing across applications, networks and infrastructure.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Thu, 24th Sep 2026
Datadog launches tools to monitor & test user journeys
DevOps

Datadog launches tools to monitor & test user journeys

The new tools aim to help teams spot when customers fail to complete checkout, sign-in or onboarding, despite healthy system metrics.

By Mara Sugue • 4 min read • Thu, 24th Sep 2026
AI's data centre overhaul forcing a network rethink
Edge Computing

AI's data centre overhaul forcing a network rethink

AI training is exposing network bottlenecks that can idle GPUs, raise costs and force operators to redesign data centres around lossless fabrics.

By Mina Mousa • 5 min read • Thu, 24th Sep 2026
Australia & New Zealand top Asia-Pacific in IT stability
DevOps

Australia & New Zealand top Asia-Pacific in IT stability

Outages are detected quickly in Australia and New Zealand, but fragmented monitoring leaves teams slower to restore services across APAC.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Wed, 23rd Sep 2026
Google Cloud launches Filestore agent volumes for AI
Virtualisation

Google Cloud launches Filestore agent volumes for AI

The service aims to cut storage overheads for firms running thousands of AI agents, while keeping workspaces isolated and quick to spin up.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Sat, 19th Sep 2026
Google Cloud named Leader in Forrester cloud assessment
Software-as-a-Service

Google Cloud named Leader in Forrester cloud assessment

Enterprises seeking AI-ready infrastructure may see Google Cloud's higher score as validation of its database, analytics and Kubernetes services.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Wed, 16th Sep 2026
Interview: Cloudera bets on hybrid AI growth in JAPAC
Data Protection

Interview: Cloudera bets on hybrid AI growth in JAPAC

Banks and large enterprises in Asia-Pacific are rethinking cloud-first AI plans as costs, sovereignty and regulation favour hybrid deployments.

By Sean Mitchell • 7 min read • Tue, 15th Sep 2026
FPT wins AWS DevOps Competency as cloud demand rises
DevOps

FPT wins AWS DevOps Competency as cloud demand rises

Businesses pushing AI into production need more reliable cloud operations, and FPT says its latest AWS badge strengthens that support.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Tue, 15th Sep 2026
Google Cloud eases Spanner DML transaction limits
Software Development

Google Cloud eases Spanner DML transaction limits

Developers can now keep multi-step updates together as Spanner drops the cumulative DML cap, though the 80,000 limit still applies per statement.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Fri, 11th Sep 2026
KDDI cuts Buffmee AI latency by 38% after overhaul
Generative AI

KDDI cuts Buffmee AI latency by 38% after overhaul

Users of Buffmee will get faster, better grounded answers after KDDI reduced response latency by 38% and improved first-token speed.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Wed, 9th Sep 2026
SUSE named Gartner Leader for container management
Software-as-a-Service

SUSE named Gartner Leader for container management

The ranking bolsters SUSE's pitch to businesses wanting one control plane for containers, virtual machines and AI workloads across mixed environments.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Wed, 9th Sep 2026

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