The story of digital transformation across the Connected Economy™ is becoming inextricably tied to expectations around uptime. Whether the system in question is a cloud platform, a payments network or even a blockchain, the five nines, representing 99.999% availability, have become table stakes. After all,...
On Tuesday (Nov. 18) morning, a configuration error at Cloudflare knocked major services offline, including ChatGPT, X and Spotify for several hours, the latest reminder of how vulnerable digital infrastructure has become as cloud systems grow more complex. One day later, Palo Alto Networks announced...
Upward raised $8 million in a Series Seed+ round to grow its FinTech infrastructure platform that helps companies launch and scale digital financial products. The company will use the new funding to expand its infrastructure, its engineering and partnership capabilities, and the adoption of its...
AWS and OpenAI have announced a $38 billion agreement that enables OpenAI to run its AI workloads on AWS infrastructure, starting immediately. Under the agreement, OpenAI is accessing AWS compute comprising hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs and can expand to tens of millions of...
December 26, 2025
The story of digital transformation across the Connected Economy™ is becoming inextricably tied to expectations around uptime. Whether the system in question is a cloud platform, a payments network or even a blockchain, the five nines, representing 99.999% availability, have become table stakes. After all, in the early marketing of public blockchains, uptime was treated […]
October 23, 2025
Small business owners are the backbone of local economies, sustaining communities one transaction at a time. They are often small teams, sometimes just a few people wearing many hats, balancing...
October 23, 2025
The most palatable side of crypto might just be its potential within the enterprise and small business. And with regulatory policy clarifying and traditional players launching their own digital asset...
May 26, 2020
There is scarcely an aspect of life that has not been thoroughly disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis has also dramatically exposed the degree to which consumers, employers and...
November 07, 2025
Upward raised $8 million in a Series Seed+ round to grow its FinTech infrastructure platform that helps companies launch and scale digital financial products. The company will use the new funding to expand its infrastructure, its engineering and partnership capabilities, and the adoption of its platform by companies in the FinTech, creator and gig workforce […]
November 03, 2025
AWS and OpenAI have announced a $38 billion agreement that enables OpenAI to run its AI workloads on AWS infrastructure, starting immediately. Under the agreement, OpenAI is accessing AWS compute...
October 23, 2025
Small business owners are the backbone of local economies, sustaining communities one transaction at a time. They are often small teams, sometimes just a few people wearing many hats, balancing...
February 17, 2025
Dream, a company focused on artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cybersecurity for nations and critical infrastructure, raised $100 million in a Series B funding round to expand into additional markets in which...