3 in Finance

8/27: Cloud management and FinOps platform, nOps (San Francisco, CA) completes a $30mm round of Series A venture funding from Headlight Partners. (Link)

8/19: Advanced Micro Devices (NAS: AMD) agrees to pay close to $5B for ZT Systems (Secaucus, NJ), manufacturer of servers and other data center equipment. (Link)

8/7: Anjuna Security (Palo Alto, CA), confidential computing infrastructure security platform, raises $25mm in Series B2 financing round led by M Ventures, SineWave Ventures, and AI Capital Partners. (Link)

3 for Fun

Blackstone eyeing what could be the largest digital infrastructure deal of the year, a $13B bid to acquire AirTrunk (Link)

Kubernetes has experienced slow adoption despite its clear advantages; here’s how new developments and open-source tools could transform the current landscape of cloud infrastructure (Link)

Goldman, Wren House, and Igneo are among the frontrunners to acquire the billion-dollar Spanish data center operator, Nabiax (Link)