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Evaluating Hybrid & Multicloud this quarter? This page brings together what changed, which companies are most active, what practitioners are asking and how to build a shortlist.
Running workloads across on-premises, edge and multiple clouds: hybrid platforms, virtualisation choices, VMware alternatives and consumption-based infrastructure.
What changed recently
Start with the news. These are the Hybrid & Multicloud stories getting the most attention right now, so you know what has shifted before you talk to anyone.
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FinOps for AI: a practical guide to managing AI cloud costs
AI has crossed the threshold from speculative R&D to the operational engine of the modern enterprise. Engineering teams deploy autonomous agents to handle complex customer workflows; product squads embed foundation model APIs directly into flagship software; and business units independently license AI-powered SaaS platforms to streamline daily work. What began as a series of isolated experiments…
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AI cost management: How to build a business case for executives
Stop guessing. Start governing. Your CFO doesn’t want a demo, they want a defensible business case. Here’s the 7-step checklist that builds one. Define your addressable AI spend: Inventory AI costs across model APIs, cloud GPUs, vector databases, AI software licences, agents, users and infrastructure Identify optimization opportunities: Evaluate model rightsizing, prompt caching, agent…
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Your AI Strategy Depends on Partners; Here’s How to Find Them
The next phase of enterprise AI will not be built inside one provider’s platform. Models, accelerated compute, enterprise data, storage and network services increasingly…
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When AI becomes an asset, not an expense
September 24, 2026 – Conversations about AI costs often begin with token prices and access to the latest cloud models. Those factors matter, but they can obscure the larger question: as AI moves into production, how can enterprises meet growing demand economically, predictably, and at scale? The issue becomes more urgent as demand grows steady and business-critical. A consumption-only approach…
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HPE named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Infrastructure Platform Consumption Services
HOUSTON – September 23, 2026 – HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced it was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Infrastructure Platform Consumption Services for the second consecutive year. Over the past year, HPE has advanced GreenLake with agentic AIOps and unified cloud operations software that simplifies managing and optimizing enterprise AI factories and IT infrastructure. “AI…
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MySQL® on Steroids: Accelerating Provisioning, Backup & Recovery, and TDE with Nutanix Database Service (NDB)
Simplify MySQL management with Nutanix Database Service (NDB). Automate database provisioning, instant cloning, fast recovery, and TDE key management.
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The AI cost reckoning: Why token bills are becoming the new cloud bill
Key findings AI’s biggest challenge is shifting from adoption to accountability as costs spread across tokens, cloud, SaaS and software Most organizations lack the visibility needed to effectively govern and optimize AI spending FinOps, ITAM and SaaS management must converge to provide a complete view of AI costs and business value According to the EY’s AI Pulse Survey Results: Wave 5, 98% of…
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Aethos London Shoreditch redefines luxury hospitality with HPE Self-Driving Network
London, UK – September 22, 2026 – HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced that Aethos London Shoreditch, a luxury lifestyle hotel in East London, is transforming its digital operations and guest experience with the HPE Self-Driving Network. Built on an agentic AI-native foundation, the platform delivers seamless, secure wired and wireless connectivity while enabling the network to operate with…
Companies to know in Hybrid & Multicloud
Those stories keep returning to the same names. These are the companies we track in this category; each profile has its news, solutions and published reviews.
HPE
Spring (Houston), Texas, USA
HPE, the primary brand of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since June 2025, is a US enterprise technology company that sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud services, including the HPE GreenLake cloud platform. Formed in 2015 when Hewlett-Packard split in two, HPE focuses on edge-to-cloud infrastructure and AI, and it expanded its networking business by acquiring Juniper Networks in July 2025.
Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Red Hat is an enterprise open source software company best known for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud application platform and Ansible Automation Platform. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Red Hat has operated as an independent subsidiary of IBM since IBM acquired it in 2019.
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, USA
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications, security products and developer tools such as GitHub. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is one of the largest providers of cloud and AI services to businesses.
Broadcom
Palo Alto, California, USA
Broadcom is a US semiconductor and infrastructure software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, formed when Avago Technologies acquired Broadcom Corporation in 2016. It sells networking, broadband, storage and custom AI accelerator chips, and infrastructure software including VMware Cloud Foundation, Tanzu and CA and Symantec enterprise products. It completed its acquisition of VMware in 2023.
Nutanix
San Jose, California, USA
Nutanix is a hybrid multicloud software company whose Nutanix Cloud Platform combines hyperconverged compute and storage, the AHV hypervisor, unified file and object storage, Kubernetes management and database services. It serves enterprises running applications across data centres, edge sites and public clouds, including through NC2 on AWS and Azure. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix is listed on Nasdaq.
Dell Technologies
Round Rock, Texas, USA
Dell Technologies is an American technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. It sells PCs, servers, storage, networking and data protection products and services, including PowerEdge servers, PowerStore, PowerScale and PowerMax storage, PowerProtect data protection and the Dell AI Factory. Dell was founded by Michael Dell in 1984; Dell Technologies was formed in 2016 when Dell acquired EMC. It is listed on the NYSE (DELL).
Google Cloud
Mountain View, California, USA
Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, BigQuery, Spanner and the Vertex AI platform with Gemini models, as well as Google Workspace. It serves enterprises, public sector organisations and startups through global cloud regions.
Amazon Web Services
Seattle, Washington, USA
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and platform services including EC2 compute, S3 storage, databases such as Aurora and DynamoDB, EKS containers, IoT, analytics, Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker for AI, and Trainium and Graviton custom chips.
IBM
Armonk, New York, USA
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform, IBM Z mainframes and Power servers, IBM Storage, Db2 databases, and automation and observability software such as Instana and HashiCorp Terraform. Founded in 1911 and headquartered in Armonk, New York, IBM is listed on the NYSE.
Oracle
Austin, Texas, USA
Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It serves enterprises and governments with databases, ERP, HCM and industry applications, and cloud infrastructure for AI training and inference. Founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates, Oracle is listed on the NYSE and headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Cisco
San Jose, California, USA
Cisco is a US networking and security company founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells enterprise, data centre and service provider networking (Catalyst, Nexus, Meraki, Silicon One), security products including firewalls and Cisco Security Cloud, Splunk observability and security analytics, and Webex collaboration. It completed its acquisition of Splunk in 2024.
NetApp
San Jose, California, USA
NetApp is a data infrastructure company that sells unified storage systems, data management software and cloud storage services. Its ONTAP operating system powers AFF and FAS arrays and first-party cloud services such as Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Azure NetApp Files and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. Founded in 1992 as Network Appliance, NetApp is listed on Nasdaq and headquartered in San Jose, California.
Lenovo
Hong Kong, China
Lenovo is a multinational technology company that makes PCs, smartphones, servers, storage and IT services. Its Infrastructure Solutions Group sells ThinkSystem servers, ThinkAgile hyperconverged systems, ThinkSystem storage and Neptune liquid-cooled systems for HPC and AI. Founded in Beijing in 1984, Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and acquired IBM's PC business in 2005 and x86 server business in 2014.
Equinix
Redwood City, California, USA
Equinix is a global digital infrastructure company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It operates International Business Exchange (IBX) colocation data centres in many metropolitan markets worldwide, along with interconnection services such as Equinix Fabric and Internet Exchange, and xScale hyperscale data centres. Equinix is structured as a real estate investment trust (REIT) and is listed on Nasdaq (EQIX).
HashiCorp
San Francisco, California, USA
HashiCorp is a US infrastructure software company known for Terraform for infrastructure as code and Vault for secrets management, alongside Consul, Nomad, Packer, Vagrant and Boundary. It offers these through HashiCorp Cloud Platform and self-managed enterprise editions. Founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar in San Francisco, HashiCorp was acquired by IBM in 2025.
Rackspace Technology
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Rackspace Technology is a US managed cloud and IT services company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1998. It designs, migrates and operates workloads on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and private cloud infrastructure, and provides managed hosting, security and application services. Rackspace is majority-owned by funds managed by Apollo Global Management and is listed on Nasdaq.
Kyndryl
New York City, New York, USA
Kyndryl is an IT infrastructure services company that designs, runs and modernises mission-critical systems for large enterprises, covering cloud, applications, data and AI, networking, security and resilience, and mainframe services. Formed in 2021 through the spin-off of IBM's managed infrastructure services business, Kyndryl is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and headquartered in New York City.
Flexera
Itasca, Illinois, USA
Flexera is a US software company that helps organisations manage and optimise technology spend across software licences, SaaS and public cloud. Its Flexera One platform covers IT asset management, FinOps and cloud cost optimisation, and technology intelligence. Headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, Flexera is privately held and has expanded through acquisitions including Snow Software and Spot from NetApp.
SUSE
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
SUSE is an enterprise open source software company founded in 1992 in Nuremberg, Germany. It develops SUSE Linux Enterprise, the Rancher Prime Kubernetes management platform, NeuVector container security, and edge and AI infrastructure offerings for enterprises across cloud, data centre and edge environments. SUSE is owned by private equity firm EQT and sponsors the openSUSE community project.
Canonical
London, England, United Kingdom
Canonical is a British software company founded in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth and headquartered in London. It publishes Ubuntu, the open-source Linux distribution, and sells commercial support and security maintenance through Ubuntu Pro, along with open-source infrastructure products including Canonical Kubernetes, MicroK8s, OpenStack, LXD, MAAS and Juju. Canonical is privately held.
What practitioners are asking
Vendor news only tells you half of it. This is what people working in Hybrid & Multicloud are discussing and asking each other.
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How to Buy AI Hardware When the Hardware Market Never Sits Still
At the end of 2025, we wrote a blog post intended to demystify AI hardware processors. We compared GPUs and CPUs, as well as…
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One Subnet, One Path: How Nutanix Flow Keeps VM Migration Traffic From Splitting
Migrating VMs from VMware by Broadcom to the Nutanix AHV hypervisor usually means keeping the same subnet alive in both places at once.
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Bringing Intelligent AI Workload Orchestration to Nutanix Kubernetes Platform and Nutanix Enterprise AI
Nutanix announced its acquisition of Ryax Technologies to further accelerate our vision of empowering enterprises to build, run, and govern agentic AI anywhere.
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What a 190% ROI on Network Modernization Looks Like
Enterprises are moving more data between more distributed endpoints, in more places, than ever before—which makes network modernization essential. Yet many leaders struggle to…
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Beyond Self-Managed EC2: NDB on NC2 for RDS Custom for Oracle Databases
AWS has announced that Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle will reach end of support on March 31, 2027. Customers can continue using the service as-is until then; after that date, RDS Custom for Oracle database instances, snapshots, and custom engine versions will no longer be accessible.
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How to Evaluate Neocloud Risks for Enterprise AI | Nutanix
Evaluate 7 neocloud risks for enterprise AI, including infrastructure, networking, data, security, compliance, and operations.
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What impact does AI have on cloud and data cloud spend?
Ask your FinOps team or anyone in finance what has hit the budget hardest this year and the answer is likely to be the same: AI. AI’s impact on cloud spend and data cloud spend isn’t a five-year-out projection anymore. It’s already sitting on this month’s invoice. Gartner puts worldwide AI spending at $2.59 trillion in 2026, up 47% from the year before. AI infrastructure alone is forecast at…
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HPE named a Challenger in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms
HPE has been named a Challenger in Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms. This recognition comes less than two years after announcing HPE’s intent to launch a virtualization alternative. In HPE’s view, this recognition reflects not only product innovation, but also the trust customers and partners have placed in HPE…
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Why Public Internet Routing Is Breaking Enterprise AI Performance
AI success isn’t just about hardware and models. Where organizations host workloads matters, as does the connectivity across those distributed workloads. When enterprises place…
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3 Use Cases Showing Digital Sovereignty in Action
Digital sovereignty is top of mind for many business leaders, but exactly what that entails will look different for each leader and each organization. For…
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Anthropic Mythos and AdminStudio: Accelerating the journey from vulnerability discovery to remediation
AI has changed the vulnerability landscape Anthropic’s Project Glasswing demonstrates how AI can help defenders identify software vulnerabilities faster and at a scale that would be difficult to achieve through manual analysis alone. Using Claude Mythos Preview, organizations can analyze critical software, uncover potential weaknesses, and identify risks earlier. However, vulnerability discovery…
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DNEG scales creative visual effects and animation workflows with HPE servers and financial services
DNEG scales creative visual effects and animation workflows with HPE servers and financial services In the world of visual effects and animation, artists, animators, and technologists collaborate across continents and time zones to bring some of the world's most celebrated films and television series to life. For DNEG, the award-winning studio behind productions like The Odyssey, Dune, The Last…
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Listening and acting to help our partners win with HPE
Partners are at the centre of HPE’s growth strategy. They bring our innovation closer to customers, help organisations modernise with confidence, and create the reach, expertise and trusted relationships needed to turn technology investments into outcomes. That is why Q3 was about action. In a dynamic supply environment, partners told us they needed greater speed, simplicity and predictability.…
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HPE to webcast Networking Investor Day event
HOUSTON – Sept. 3, 2026 – HPE (NYSE: HPE) will host its Networking Investor Day on September 30, 2026, in Sunnyvale, California. Join the live webcast for an in-depth presentation on the HPE Networking business from Rami Rahim, executive vice president, president, and general manager, Networking, HPE. Additional Networking executives will also participate in the event and take part in a live…
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HPE reports fiscal 2026 third quarter results
HOUSTON – September 2, 2026 – HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced financial results for the third quarter ended July 31, 2026. “HPE’s strategy is proving itself again this quarter. Our results demonstrate the durability of our profitable growth momentum. We delivered record revenue, orders, and profitability, fueled by surging customer demand across our portfolio,” said Antonio Neri, president and…
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HPE and Oracle deepen networking collaboration to accelerate gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure
HOUSTON – Sept. 2, 2026 – HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced an expanded collaboration with Oracle to help scale Oracle’s global AI infrastructure by deploying HPE Juniper Networking across Oracle’s AI data centers. The expanded collaboration builds on more than a decade of engineering work between Oracle and Juniper Networks and includes networking support services and financing capabilities.…