Last week FastNetMon attended DataCenter Forum Romania 2026 in Bucharest. Representing our team at the event was Virgil Truica, FastNetMon’s Head of Sales, who spent the day meeting with infrastructure operators, hosting providers, cloud teams, and data centre professionals from across the region.
Now in its 8th edition, the event has clearly become one of the key meeting points for the data centre and cloud infrastructure community in Eastern Europe. This year’s discussions heavily focused on AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, cloud growth, and the operational challenges that come with scaling modern infrastructure.
One of the recurring themes throughout the conference was how quickly AI is changing infrastructure requirements. Several sessions explored AI-ready data centres, GPU-heavy workloads, and the growing pressure these environments place on power, cooling, connectivity, and network resilience. There were also interesting discussions around Romania’s AI Factory initiatives and the region’s growing investment in HPC infrastructure.
Beyond the AI discussions, the agenda covered a broad mix of topics, including cloud scalability, connectivity, sustainability, operational resilience, and cybersecurity. For us, it was especially interesting to hear how operators are thinking about visibility and resilience as networks continue to grow in scale and complexity.
Virgil had many good conversations during the event around DDoS protection, traffic visibility, and the challenges providers face when trying to maintain reliable services in increasingly demanding environments. These are exactly the kinds of discussions we value most at industry events — practical conversations with the people operating real-world infrastructure every day.
Thank you to the organisers and everyone who stopped by to connect with our team during the conference. We’re looking forward to continuing the conversations.
