Infrastructure

How Norway's welfare system moved 400GB of daily logs to managed OpenSearch without a service interruption

The Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) pays out 33% of Norway’s state budget. A thousand developers rely on its central logging infrastructure every day. At OpenSearchCon Europe 2026, platform engineer Hans Kristian Flaatten and Aiven Product Director Dmitry Kan walked through how they swapped out the underlying search engine while the lights stayed on – and what happened when a last-minute integration problem turned up three days before Christmas.

NAV's Hans Kristian Flaatten and Aiven's Dmitry Kan at OpenSearchCon 26 © AlyxMacQueen

AI infrastructure - OpenAI slamming the brakes on UK data center plans sparks electrifying debate around the AI energy bill

Who pays the electricity bill in the end?

AI Bots - a new risk and opportunity for CIOs to manage This article is sponsored by:

Digital leaders are seeing an increasing amount of automated bots crawling their estates and driving up costs, as well as threats

.NEXT 2026 - AI factories and neo-clouds open new opportunities for Nutanix

And for CIOs too, as they balance new methods, shortages, and sovereign data demands

SUSE wants to take the cognitive load out of infrastructure – and Liz is how it plans to do it

How many vendors at KubeCon Europe 2026 said they were not an AI company? I only found one. Peter Smails, General Manager of Cloud Native at SUSE, was fairly insistent about it – and what he said instead is worth looking into.

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Cleared for takeoff - Virgin Atlantic's AI Concierge lands with observability built in

A customer-facing AI tool took central stage at the Datadog Summit to demonstrate the business case for LLM Observability

Huangs for the memory – NVIDIA’s GTC tells us that the future has claws! 

NVIDIA GTC 2026 draws to a close today. What did we learn on the way to San Jose? For one thing, you need a claws strategy!

AI will follow the path of the industries that keep the world running This article is sponsored by:

IFS's Kevin Miller predicts that industrial AI is moving from over-promoted bolt-ons to the operating model of essential industries — foundational, dependable, and reliable.

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GTC 2026 - Everpure tackles data readiness and flexible consumption for enterprise AI

Everpure uses its first appearance since rebranding to target two problems its own customers and the diginomica network consistently flag as the real blockers to enterprise AI progress - data readiness and storage consumption flexibility - with the DataStream beta and the extension of Evergreen//One to FlashBlade//EXA.

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Genesys takes a deliberate path to autonomous CX with large action models

Genesys has launched what it describes as the industry's first agentic virtual agent built on large action models (LAMs) - moving enterprise AI from conversation to autonomous action across back-office systems. Here's why the architectural approach, and the governance model behind it, deserves a closer look.

'Ello, ello' - how one US communications services firm is connecting to an AI-enabled future for Mid-west communities

Partnering with a long-standing cloud platform provider is serving ALLO Communications well, says CEO Brad Moline.

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Smaller, more sustainable data centers might be more practical. Here's why

Qoob CEO AJ Javan argues that building data centers for AI inference and fine-tuning might be a more practical opportunity than building bigger. These could be smaller, more distributed, and more sustainable.

The invisible network — why real-time AI will define who leads in 6G This article is sponsored by:

Confluent's Matias Cascallares makes the case for why real-time data, edge processing, and agentic AI aren't just upgrades for telecoms — they're the architecture that will define who survives the 6G era.

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