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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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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO

If you look at Amazon’s journey, and the way they run their data centers, they claim to be five times more energy efficient than an average data center.” Choice closed one data center last year and plans to close its second data center in 2023.

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Private Data Center Trends for 2014 and Beyond

CTOvision

Today’s data centers are being built at the forefront of industry standards. Within the past five years, the way we construct data centers has changed dramatically. David Cappuccio, the Chief of Infrastructure Research at Gartner, told CIO that “Data centers will no longer be constrained by one specific site.

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EnCharge AI emerges from stealth with $21.7M to develop AI accelerator hardware

TechCrunch

EnCharge has its roots in federal grants that Verma received in 2017 alongside collaborators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. sets of AI algorithms) while remaining scalable. NeuroBlade last October raised $83 million for its in-memory inference chip for data centers and edge devices.

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CoreWeave, a GPU-focused cloud compute provider, lands $221M investment

TechCrunch

based data center expansion with the opening of two new centers this year, CEO Mike Intrator said. CoreWeave was founded in 2017 by Intrator, Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee to address what they saw as “a void” in the cloud market. . CoreWeave currently operates five in North America.

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Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers

TechCrunch

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence.

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Combined DOCSIS 4.0 Interop Event Stresses Network Interoperability and Virtualization 

CableLabs

Now, the software components have been abstracted into a virtual core that runs on servers in our data center, while the physical-layer components have migrated to the fiber node. And in between, the fiber-optic cable uses much more scalable digital Ethernet connections. This interop shows that the migration to DOCSIS 4.0