Civo August 2026 newsletter

July turned infrastructure commitments into infrastructure reality. Civo confirmed its place among the first cloud providers globally to host NVIDIA Vera Rubin, Russell Smith gave "cloud first" its long-overdue post-mortem, Navigate London's speaker lineup took shape, and Navigate India's early bird closes this month. Here is everything you might have missed.

In the news

Civo confirmed as one of the first Vera Rubin hosts globally

On 23 July, Civo announced it will be among the first cloud providers globally to host NVIDIA Vera Rubin in purpose-built liquid-cooled facilities. 

The Vera Rubin NVL72 platform carries 288GB of HBM4 memory per GPU and delivers 5x the inference performance of Blackwell. It also requires liquid cooling that most providers aren't currently equipped to meet. 

The latest from Civo

"Cloud first" is dead: Here's what replaced it 

Russell Smith, Product Director for Enterprise Private Cloud at Civo, published the blog companion to his cloud repatriation webinar this month. 

The short version: runaway bills, Broadcom's VMware pricing shock, sovereignty moving from legal footnote to procurement requirement, and the true cost of AI infrastructure. The real strategy is selective rebalancing, and the organizations building that hybrid path now are the ones making the decision on their own terms.

Save your seat: Private cloud with public cloud parity

14 October 2026 | 4:00 PM UTC | with Russell Smith & Sophia McKee

"Private cloud" has been a promise that underdelivers for years. Locked-down environments, limited services, and an ops burden that made the economics barely worth it.

The conversation has changed, but the scepticism hasn't, and for good reason. Join Russell Smith and Sophia McKee as they cut through the noise to show exactly what full cloud parity inside a private environment actually looks like in 2026.

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Platform Engineering Unplugged: Why does every cluster look different?

19 August 2026 | 4:00 PM UTC | with John Dietz & M R Rishi

If you've ever inherited a cluster that nobody fully understands, provisioned one from memory, or watched two teams solve the same infrastructure problem in completely different ways, this one is for you.

On 19 August, John Dietz and M R Rishi walk through how Konstruct's cluster templates work in practice: from built-in upstream templates for Civo, AWS, GCP, Azure, and bare metal, to building and registering your own custom templates with your own Terraform modules and GitOps content.

→ Register for the 19 August session

Civo Navigate 

Speakers are now live for Civo Navigate London

Tuesday, 22 September 2026 | London Convene 155 Bishopsgate

Civo Navigate London is less than 2 months away. This edition brings together the people actively shaping what cloud and AI infrastructure looks like next, from elected officials and investors to engineers who've built the systems most of us run on. Speakers confirmed from government, research, enterprise, and the open-source community, with more still to be announced.

→ See the speakers and get your tickets today

Early bird tickets end this month for Civo Navigate India

Tuesday, 24 November 2026 | Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel & Convention Center

Navigate India 2026 is back in Bengaluru, and the community that comes together here gets better every year. 1,000+ engineers, platform leads, and technology leaders, a full day of expert talks, real conversations, and connections that last well beyond the event.

Early Bird tickets at ₹5,000 close on 1 September. If you're planning to be in the room, now is the right moment to register.

→ Register for Navigate India 2026 

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