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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI

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Private cloud providers may be among the key beneficiaries of today’s generative AI gold rush as, once seemingly passé in favor of public cloud, CIOs are giving private clouds — either on-premises or hosted by a partner — a second look. The excitement and related fears surrounding AI only reinforces the need for private clouds.

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Choosing a cloud infrastructure provider: A beginner’s guide

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Sashank Purighalla Contributor Share on Twitter Sashank Purighalla is the founder and CEO of BOS Framework , a cloud enablement platform. The promise of lower hardware costs has spurred startups to migrate services to the cloud, but many teams were unsure how to do this efficiently or cost-effectively.

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A look into the lifecycle of software-defined infrastructure with NTT DATA’s Technology Solutions

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Technology Solutions’ dominant model revolved around hardware products. While this model is not diminishing, new cloud-based software technologies are changing business needs and competitive realities are giving rise to alternative technology solutions business models. As technology evolves, support services must evolve in tandem.

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Seekr finds the AI computing power it needs in Intel’s cloud

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The company needs massive computing power with CPUs and GPUs that are optimized for AI development, says Clark, adding that Seekr looked at the infrastructure it would need to build and train its huge AI models and quickly determined that buying and maintaining the hardware would be prohibitively expensive.

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Exafunction aims to reduce AI dev costs by abstracting away hardware

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But they share a common bottleneck: hardware. New techniques and chips designed to accelerate certain aspects of AI system development promise to (and, indeed, already have) cut hardware requirements. At least, that’s the assertion of Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen, the co-founders of infrastructure startup Exafunction.

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Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization

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By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale. Here are four steps to getting the most out of cloud computing resources in an economical manner.

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Multicloud by design approach simplifies the cloud experience

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After all, an effective multicloud framework offers greater platform and service flexibility by leveraging the strengths of multiple cloud environments to drive business agility and innovation. Each cloud is a silo of specific, often proprietary services and tools. Each cloud is a silo of specific, often proprietary services and tools.

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