3 articles that week
Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 23rd, 2026
The global data intelligence, analytics, and infrastructure (DIAI) market is projected to grow at a 17% compound annual growth rate through 2028 off a base of $541.1 billion in 2026 to exceed $1.2 trillion by 2031, according to a forecast published today by the Futurum Group.
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Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 23rd, 2026
To understand 2026, let's start with what happened in 2025. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud didn't just grow; they grew at scale. Combined, they crossed well north of $300B in annual cloud revenue, still expanding around 20-30% year over year.
more → Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
Three years ago, I sat in a conference room watching a vendor demo 'self-healing infrastructure' that would 'eliminate downtime forever'. Fast forward to today, and I'm still getting paged for the same EC2 instance running out of memory.
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