Cloud companies usually save their big numbers for a formal quarterly earnings call. DigitalOcean didn’t wait. On July 7, 2026, the company pre-announced its Q2 2026 results early, and the headline number is hard to miss: revenue growth accelerating to roughly 29% year-over-year, more than double the 14% growth rate it reported a year earlier. … Read more
Picture a cloud provider signing a customer contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars for AI compute — and then realizing there’s nowhere to physically plug in the servers that contract requires. That’s not a hypothetical. It’s the exact bottleneck cloud providers are racing to solve right now, and it has a name: data center … Read more
Imagine your company needs a firewall. Twenty years ago, that meant ordering a physical box, waiting for it to ship, racking it in a data center, and cabling it in by hand. Today, an engineer can get the same firewall running in minutes, without ever touching hardware. They pick it from a cloud marketplace, click … Read more