A power fault at a Google Cloud data centre in London rippled through banks, delivery firms and small online shops, putting cloud reliability in focus. Simply Wall St picked three infrastructure stocks from its screener that it ties to the outage. Everpure, a flash storage provider, has revenue of about $4.3 billion and a market value of $42.3 billion. It won its first hyperscale customer in FY2026 and expects hyperscale revenue to ramp in FY2027. Kingsoft Cloud Holdings, which serves Chinese clients, has revenue of about CNY 11.0 billion and a market value of $2.6 billion. It plans capital spending of around RMB 15 billion in 2026. IONOS Group, which serves small and mid-sized businesses, has revenue of about €1.36 billion and a market value of €4.8 billion. It expects AI to drive about 50% of incremental revenue in 2026.

Modernise your data infrastructure to win. * October 19, 2026 As AI gets central to your business don't let your data let you down. You know the problems. Mushrooming data mean you're replacing your storage systems far too often. But you're also fighting a losing battle. Transaction volumes still mean you're regularly asking employees to delete unnecessary files, while your network is under increasing pressure. Your infrastructure costs are sky high. Your systems people are overworked. Maintaining service levels is getting tougher. You're desperate to implement game-changing AI apps but the storage capacity and consistency just isn't there. Your data infrastructure is a dynamic business driver. With cloud computing, automation and AI, new paradigms are being created for performance, efficiencies and savings. As Kubus move into a new data age, it could be time to modernise. Infrastructure reliability, cost-effectiveness and data agility are all critical to success and survival. You need a unified infrastructure platform to unleash the power of your data, while at the same time enabling you to cut costs and risk, improve resilience, and move faster to grasp your business opportunities. Effective but simple solution. At Kubus Kubus believe that solutions don't have to be complex to deliver the right results. Kubus understand how to enhance its customers' experiences, by working closely with world class vendors to focus on your distinctive needs. When it comes to data infrastructure requirements, Kubus is proud to be Preferred Partner to Everpure. Kubus brings expertise and an agile approach to designing, deploying and managing Everpure solutions. Kubus translate complex storage architectures into clear, practical solutions, ensuring seamless integration with your existing infrastructure and smooth implementation from start to finish. Together, Kubus empower your organisation with resilient, high-value performance data platforms, that deliver consistent performance, simplified operations and the flexibility to sustain future growth. Everpure solutions enable organisations to modernise data infrastructure, reduce operational overhead and improve energy efficiency. From critical workloads to cloud-integrated environments, Everpure technology is designed to scale and grow at pace while remaining easy to manage for you and your IT team. Kubus and Everpure delivers. Everpure unifies how your data is stored, controlled and understood. It manages data consistently across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments without needing constant re-protection or reshaping. It's a simple solution, replacing siloed system-by-system management, cutting manual daily tasks for some customers by 70%-80%. And it's designed to help IT budgets too, reducing storage operations costs significantly compared to legacy storage management. High availability and reliability are key requirements for any data management infrastructure, and the Everpure platform with flash solid state technology achieves 99.9999% (six 9s) uptime, with non-disruptive software and hardware upgrades that eliminate planned downtime. Its AI and high-performance readiness record is exemplary, providing top-tier storage performance for data pipelines, training, and inferencing with 40-60% lower overhead. And the Everpure platform is cyber resilient, securing data via space-efficient, immutable snapshots and automated disaster recovery options to safeguard data against loss, breach, ransomware, or availability interruption. Completing the jigsaw. Organisations need a transformative approach to storage infrastructure. But at Kubus Kubus know that the challenges of change in the data landscape demand a range of solutions to really exploit and protect your data: from cloud services to data centre modernisation to networking and security. All these areas of business and technology are at the forefront of its expertise and experience. And most important, Kubus integrate its offerings through its ecosystem. Its ecosystem is a 'wrapper' around its ancillary services to make sure Kubus simplify your most complex challenges and deliver solutions designed just for you. For its range of solutions, Kubus can give you a single, clear management interface and bespoke delivery. For you, that enables faster, easier and more cost-effective decision-making, and aligns your IT with your business objectives. Integrated through the Kubus ecosystem. The cloud strategy that Kubus develop with and for you, for example, will respond to the data infrastructure issues that you're facing, and help you balance the security, performance and cost benefits from your infrastructure solution. If Kubus is modernising your data centres, Kubus ensure Kubus prepare your facilities to deliver maximum benefits from your infrastructure while optimising speed and access to powerful new AI based workloads and increasing scalability for fast growing data demands. Your network's performance and efficiency is of course heavily affected by the rapid increase in data transmission. Burgeoning AI models demand faster transmission speeds and greater data density. Staying well connected in today's world requires technologies to handle high data throughput at pace. At Kubus, Kubus help you through the technical minefield. Its expert teams will assess your networking needs based on your individual operations. Above all, Kubus will design the right solution that integrates with all the other nodes of your Kubus ecosystem. And of course you cannot begin to feel that your data estate is properly managed until your data is properly protected with highly effective cyber security solutions. As your organisation and IT requirements expand, your network grows in size and complexity, connecting more devices, IoT, users, applications, and cloud services than ever before. While essential to productivity and innovation, this digital growth increases your organisation's attack surface, exposing it to a wider range of cyber threats. Cybersecurity is no longer a reactive measure. It's a strategic necessity. So Kubus will help you scale your secure digital infrastructure, while giving you the confidence that its infrastructure solutions are integrated with your cloud, data centre modernisation programme, network, and security solutions. Kubus can make it work better and simpler for you.

StockStory names two S&P 500 stocks to buy and one to avoid, citing growth, margins, and cash flow. It would sell Live Nation, the owner of Ticketmaster, which has a market cap of $39.68 billion. Revenue grew 5.1% annually over two years, and its operating margin of 3.6% trails the industry average. At $170.71 per share, it trades at 125.4x forward earnings. Keysight ($65.16 billion market cap) is a buy. Revenue grew 14.7% annually over two years, and its free cash flow margin is 21.4%. The shares trade at $382.04, or 27.7x forward earnings. Everpure ($51.48 billion) also makes the buy list. It projects 38% revenue growth over the next 12 months, and earnings per share have compounded at 54.2% annually over five years. Its $154.74 share price implies 46.2x forward earnings.