Google's Spark Engine Stopped Charging for the Work You Did Not Know You Were Paying For
Data Infrastructure Google's Lightning Engine for Managed Service for Apache Spark reached general availability in June 2026. Google claims a 4.9x speed gai…
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The Grid Added a Record 58.5 Gigawatts. NERC Says the New Risk Is Data Centers Leaving It
AI Infrastructure · Energy A record buildout was supposed to settle the reliability question. NERC's summer filings moved the question instead, from how muc…
AWS and Microsoft Kept Their Deployment Engineers In-House. Their Three Biggest Rivals Sold Equity.
AWS and Microsoft Kept Their Deployment Engineers In-House. Their Three Biggest Rivals Sold Equity. AI Infrastructure Five companies have now put capital behind …
Canva Grow 2.0 Makes One Vendor the Front Door to Three Ad Platforms
MARKETING TECHNOLOGY Canva consolidated publishing. Now design, post, and measure everything without leaving the tool. By Shashi Bellamkonda · July 2, 2026 $500M+ …
Akamai Built Its Carbon Reduction Argument on the Same Infrastructure It Sells
Corporate Sustainability How Akamai's distributed edge architecture became the foundation of its environmental strategy, not a footnote to it. By Shashi Bell…
What Public Sector CIOs Should Take From AWS Summit Washington D.C. 2026
Public Sector · AI Strategy · Government Cloud Four programs, three billion dollars in combined commitments, and one underlying argument: the infrastructure was…