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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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AMD to acquire data center optimization startup Pensando for $2B

TechCrunch

AMD is in the chip business, and a big part of that these days involves operating in data centers at an enormous scale. AMD announced today that it intends to acquire data center optimization startup Pensando for approximately $1.9 Jain will join the data center solutions group at AMD when the deal closes.

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Measuring Your Azure Carbon Footprint with the Sustainability API

Xebia

So, you want to start with green software on the Azure cloud by measuring your carbon footprint. Microsoft Azure’s Sustainability API can help organizations measure their carbon footprint to analyze and reduce it. In this blog, we’ll dive into the carbon emission data it offers and how it can be leveraged for a more sustainable future.

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Announcing Complete Azure Observability for Kentik Cloud

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Kentik customers move workloads to (and from) multiple clouds, integrate existing hybrid applications with new cloud services, migrate to Virtual WAN to secure private network traffic, and make on-premises data and applications redundant to multiple clouds – or cloud data and applications redundant to the data center.

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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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Oracle makes its pitch for the enterprise cloud. Should CIOs listen?

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But with Amazon Web Services (31%), Microsoft Azure (24%), and Google Cloud Platform (11%) accounting for two thirds of the worldwide market, according to Synergy Research Group, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) remains distantly behind the behemoths, leaving many to question whether Oracle’s cloud gains are enough to make it a contender.

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Dairyland powers up for a generative AI edge

CIO

Now, thanks to the cooperative’s tight partnership with Microsoft systems integrator Stoneridge Software, as well as Melby’s extensive technology experience, Dairyland — which was formed during the New Deal in the 1930s — has been able to experiment with and put into production some of the earliest Microsoft Azure-based LLMs, Melby says. “We