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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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Nvidia AI Enterprise adds generative AI microservices

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They’ll be accessible via Amazon SageMaker, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Microsoft Azure AI, and integrations with AI frameworks like Deepset, LangChain and LlamaIndex are also supported. Business data hosted on Box, Cloudera, Cohesity, Datastax and the like can be used in AI applications as of version 5.0,

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Top 8 IT certifications in demand today

CIO

Certifications are offered in a variety of topics such as collaboration, CyberOps, data centers, DevNet and automation, design, enterprise networking, and security. The CompTIA A+ 220-1001 exam covers mobile devices, networking technology, hardware, virtualization and cloud computing, and network troubleshooting.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

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If you’re in the business of data centers or perhaps have a heavy research and development arm, you might be able to do it more cheaply yourself,” says Ciena CIO Craig Williams, who admits this may be an outlier position. “We He went with cloud provider Wasabi for those storage needs. “We

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Oracle adds compute services to its Cloud@Customer offering

CIO

Oracle is adding a new managed offering to its Cloud@Customer platform that will allow enterprises to run applications on proprietary optimized infrastructure in their own data centers to address data residency and security regulations and solve low-latency requirements. The infrastructure will be managed and operated by Oracle.

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

Kaseya

In a public cloud, all of the hardware, software, networking and storage infrastructure is owned and managed by the cloud service provider. In addition, you can also take advantage of the reliability of multiple cloud data centers as well as responsive and customizable load balancing that evolves with your changing demands.