From hyperscale outages to bankruptcy, layoffs to industry-shaking acquisitions, these are our top 10 cloud articles of the year.

Database managed service providers like Oracle are benefitting from database sprawl, but developers aren't. Can Tembo shatter vendor lock-in?

Equinix now supports vendor-neutral liquid cooling in 45 of its colocation data center markets.

Nvidia's costly and supply-constrained H100 GPUs fueled Q3 growth in data center thermal management and power distribution market segments.

Broadcom is also killing VMware's perpetual licensing option in favor of a subscription model.

Vishal Jain said Cisco Multicloud Defense includes two key components: the software-as-a-service control plane and the platform-as-a-service delivery.

Today's dispersed networks can be difficult to secure, which makes 5G and the emerging technology known as secure access service edge a strong pairing.

Broadcom, AMD and Nvidia talk about artificial intelligence the most, and the AI rush hasn't quite hit the cloud hyperscalers, new data suggests.

The general availability of the Gateway API opens up new gateway to how Kubernetes networking and connectivity will be enabled in the future.

Tetragon is a "runtime security layer for Kubernetes platforms featuring transparency, ... minimal overhead and simple usage," said Isovalent's Thomas Graf.

Netskope Next Gen SASE Branch is designed to converge networking, security and management into a unified SASE offering for branch deployments.

Although the open-source service mesh project Linkerd started with Kubernetes, that was never the final destination in mind, William Morgan said.

Due to the furious pace of artificial intelligence and machine learning, object storage is becoming the favored route for demanding workloads.

If data center capacity and demand continue to rise, are more efficient technologies enough to make a difference?

SDxCentral audience metrics show a rising interest in SD-WAN and SASE and a move from traditional networking vendors to those with a security-centric focus.

California is the best place to launch a tech startup. But if the West Coast isn't your thing, New York ranks second place.

Investors shared concerns there might be "an inherent volatility" in Microsoft's cloud business.

The FTC says issues involving competition and fairness could arise around control of the key building blocks of generative artificial intelligence: data, talent and computational resources.

"Money shouts, and there is a lot of money being spent by hyperscale operators on data center construction," analyst John Dinsdale said.

“This gap will widen as developers increasingly use AI [artificial intelligence] to write and deploy code more quickly,” SVP Ankur Shah said.

Juniper's restructuring and organizational changes are a sign of the times and other networking companies, such as Cisco, are on a similar path.

The carrier is working with industry groups and through its own internal efforts, but needs more help from the broader ecosystem.

The U.K.'s ongoing investigation signals a "growing momentum of folks that want more openness between the cloud providers," Forrester's Tracy Woo said.

A diverse range of operating systems "is a big part of how PowerFlex enables effective data center consolidation," Dell VP Shannon Champion said.