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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” The Fungible team will join Microsoft’s data center infrastructure engineering teams, Bablani said. .

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Azure Virtual Machine Tutorial

The Crazy Programmer

Prerequisites: Microsoft Azure Subscription. So now you understand what is Virtual Machine, let’s see how to create one using Microsoft Azure. How to Create a Virtual Machine in Azure? To create a virtual machine go to Azure Portal. Region – There are various regions available in the Azure Portal.

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Lightbits Labs lands $42M to speed up server data transfers

TechCrunch

Data centers with servers attached to solid-state drives (SSDs) can suffer from an imbalance of storage and compute. Either there’s not enough processing power to go around, or physical storage limits get in the way of data transfers, Lightbits Labs CEO Eran Kirzner explains to TechCrunch.

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AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Comparing Cloud Platforms

Kaseya

As the name suggests, a cloud service provider is essentially a third-party company that offers a cloud-based platform for application, infrastructure or storage services. In a public cloud, all of the hardware, software, networking and storage infrastructure is owned and managed by the cloud service provider. What Is a Public Cloud?

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

CIO

It’s a form of rightsizing, trying to balance around cost effectiveness, capability, regulation, and privacy,” says Musser, whose team found it more cost effective to run some workloads on a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster in the company’s data center than on the cloud.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO

The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce are in the 2-3% range.)

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Azure VMware Solution: Connectivity (Part 1)

Perficient

This is Part 1 of a two-part series on Connectivity for Azure VMware Solution (AVS). AVS can bridge the gap between your on-premises VMWare-based workloads and your Azure cloud investments. Read more about AVS, its use cases, and benefits in my previous blog article – Azure VMWare Solution: What is it?

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