Cloud Infrastructure

Global – October 25, 2026 -- Cloudflare's Learning Center covers 16 topic areas, from DDoS attacks and DNS to AI, SASE and domain registration, according to the resource index.

Security guides cover DDoS, bots, email and web applications

The DDoS guide describes a network of computers working in tandem to overflow an access point and block legitimate users from a service. The bots guide separates helpful automated applications from malicious ones that can harm sites and applications.

The web application security guide calls for a holistic approach to mitigating attacks. The email security guide covers preventing email-based cyber attacks, protecting accounts from takeover and securing message contents. The SSL guide describes the protocol, known today as TLS, as an encryption protocol running on top of HTTP to protect communication between servers and clients.

Wilmington – October 21, 2026 -- Synteq has launched Apps and Serverless Functions, two managed products that run developer code on its own hardware and network in Dallas and Chicago, backed by a 99.99% uptime SLA. The release is the first step in the company's expansion into developer tools and platform services.

Every app and function invocation runs in its own Firecracker microVM

Apps run web services, APIs, and workers directly from source. Users point Synteq at a GitHub repository, upload code directly, or run one CLI command. The platform detects the language, builds the image, and serves the app over HTTPS on a Synteq subdomain or custom domain. Dockerfile builds are supported.

Each app gets dedicated CPU, memory, and network. Deployments use readiness checks and zero-downtime rolling updates, with one-command rollback. Autoscaling is budget-bound, so apps scale with demand only up to a spending limit the customer sets.

Lansing – October 19, 2026 -- Nexcess has made Acronis Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) available from October 19, 2026 as an add-on for any eligible server on its managed cloud platform, bundling real-time threat monitoring into the hosting relationship.

Nexcess targets AI-accelerated attacks with continuous server monitoring

Nexcess argues that artificial intelligence has removed two barriers to sophisticated attacks: the need for deep engineering expertise and months of patient reconnaissance. Acronis EDR is its response, monitoring how programs behave on a server, flagging activity that looks like an attack and keeping a record of what happened.

The company positions EDR as a step beyond antivirus, which blocks known threats. EDR instead monitors activity continuously, identifies suspicious patterns, and contains threats in real time. Customers receive the details and tools to respond.

Santa Barbara, Calif. – September 30, 2026 -- Sidero Labs launched Talos Director, a single management platform positioned as a direct alternative to VMware for enterprises migrating virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters off legacy virtualization stacks. The platform is now in Limited Availability, with general availability planned for January 2027.

Talos Director runs VMs and Kubernetes on one immutable operating system

Built on Talos Linux and the Talos Hypervisor, Talos Director unifies management of virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, storage and networking under a single declarative, immutable configuration model. The company says this eliminates the configuration drift that typically affects traditional data center environments.

Sunnyvale, Calif. – September 24, 2026 -- FlashGrid Inc. has released version 26.05 of FlashGrid Cluster and FlashGrid Server with support for Oracle AI Database 26ai, Oracle's next long-term support release, enabling enterprises to run the AI-native database platform on Oracle RAC across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Oracle AI Database 26ai brings over 300 new capabilities to enterprise workloads

Oracle AI Database 26ai integrates AI functions directly into the database engine, adding more than 300 new capabilities spanning artificial intelligence, developer productivity, performance, and mission-critical availability. Oracle designed the release to let organizations build AI-powered applications while retaining the security, governance, and transactional consistency standards of Oracle Database.