vCORE Technology Partners has been acquired by AHEAD, a provider of enterprise cloud services. The purchase will help AHEAD expand its foothold in the U.S. Southwest, a process that began in 2020 with the acquisition of systems integrator Kovarus. AHEAD Continues Strategic Expansion, Buys vCORE Technology Partners
vCORE Technology Partners has been acquired by AHEAD, a provider of enterprise cloud services. The purchase will help AHEAD expand its foothold in the U.S. Southwest, a process that began in 2020 with the acquisition of systems integrator Kovarus. 
Barracuda Networks has added three new regional data centers, in France, United Arab Emirates, and India respectively. 
Google Cloud and BT have established a five-year strategic agreement to help BT speed its digital transformation. 
Unified container and cloud security provider Sysdig has announced that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is now supported by its Sysdig platform. 
Cloud cost intelligence company CloudZero has revealed a new strategy to assigning shared cloud costs, adding to its capabilities for properly mapping cloud spend to business metrics. 
Steve Hershkowitz has been named Chief Revenue Officer of Virtana, a prominent supplier of AI-driven solutions for hybrid cloud administration and monitoring (CRO). 
Evoque, a worldwide supplier of connectivity, cloud, and data center services, has established a strategic relationship with technology solutions brokerage company, Telarus. 
Kubecost, an open-source solution for monitoring, controlling, and optimizing Kubernetes spend at scale, has acquired $25 million in Series A investment headed by Coatue Management. 
Quantinuum has announced a partnership with IBM to expand the IBM Quantum Hub with Cambridge Quantum Computing Limited. 
Global cloud hosting provider OVHcloud (Paris:OVH) is expanding its data storage solution range by offering unstructured data storage to its clients. 
Kubernetes data services provider ionir is teaming up with Zensar to offer clients full data mobility solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud architecture. Zensar will add ionir to its solution stack. 
CloudFest 2022 has been given the go-ahead! The major global cloud computing event returns as a face-to-face event, bringing together the Internet infrastructure industry’s key decision-makers and innovators in person to take over Europa-Park in Rust, Germany. 
AWS has announced the completion of its first 16 AWS Local Zones in the United States, with plans to open 32 more AWS Local Zones in 26 countries across the world. 
European cloud providers have initiated a project to develop shared infrastructure services that comply with Gaia-X standards. Deutsche Telekom, Atos, Aruba.it, and DE-CIX are some of the 28 corporations and organizations who have promised to make their cloud services Gaia-X compatible. 
For clients in the United Kingdom, Acquia has announced the introduction of its new Drupal Cloud hosting service. For enterprises affected by Brexit that wish to keep their Drupal databases in-country, a London data center offers in-country hosting. 
The European Union’s privacy watchdog will initiate joint investigations with 22 national regulators into the public sector’s usage of cloud-based services to see if they conform with its privacy regulations. 
Excelero, a provider of solutions for the most demanding public and private cloud workloads, has expanded its cloud portfolio with the launch of their NVMesh Cloud Management Portal. 
Hybrid multicloud computing supplier Nutanix has announced the global launch of a new product range to meet quickly changing customer needs. The Nutanix Cloud Platform provides a standard operating architecture for public, private, and hybrid clouds. 
