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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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6 cloud market forces impacting IT strategies today

CIO

For Microsoft Azure, this took the form of increased use of Workload Commitments, rather than the traditional Spend Based Commitments. Workload Commitments allow customers to make a “soft commitment” to keeping a certain type of workload on the Azure platform, without committing to a specific monetary consumption amount.

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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need

CIO

Flexential’s 40 state-of-the-art data centers in North America – located in metropolitan areas across the country to ensure short hops and low latency – are connected by a 100 Gbps network backbone that is easily upgradable to 400 Gbps for those customers that require ultra-high speeds.

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Infinidat Expands its Reach in the Cloud with InfuzeOS™ Cloud Edition for Azure

Infinidat

Infinidat Expands its Reach in the Cloud with InfuzeOS™ Cloud Edition for Azure Adriana Andronescu Wed, 05/22/2024 - 07:00 In 2023, Infinidat took a step across the horizon to the cloud, starting with InfuzeOS™ Cloud Edition for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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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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Cloud storage startup Wasabi raises $250M to reach unicorn status

TechCrunch

The cloud services sector is still dominated by Amazon and the other so-called “hyperscalers” — e.g. the Microsoft Azures, Google Cloud Platforms and IBM Clouds of the world. Wasabi, which doesn’t charge fees for egress or API requests, claims its storage fees work out to one-fifth of the cost of Amazon S3’s.

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Accelerating the Future of Enterprise Storage

Infinidat

Accelerating the Future of Enterprise Storage Adriana Andronescu Wed, 05/22/2024 - 06:00 Today, Infinidat announced the newest models to the InfiniBox® family of rack scale solutions - the InfiniBox™ SSA G4 and the InfiniBox G4. The F1400T family will scale up to 3PB of effective storage capacity.

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