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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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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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Announcing Complete Azure Observability for Kentik Cloud

Kentik

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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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

CIO

C R Srinivasan, EVP of cloud and cybersecurity services and chief digital officer at Tata Communications, sees many enterprises “getting more nuanced” with their cloud use and strategies in an effort to balance performance, costs, and security. “As John Musser, senior director of engineering for Ford Pro at Ford Motor Co.,

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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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Google opens second cloud region in Germany

CIO

Dubbed the Berlin-Brandenburg region, the new data center will be operational alongside the Frankfurt region and will offer services such as the Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, Persistent Disk, CloudSQL, Virtual Private Cloud, Key Management System, Cloud Identity and Secret Manager.

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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%. But for organizations that need high-performance computing, or organizations looking to reap the benefits of AI, selecting a newer model chip comes at a premium.

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