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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

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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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Device42 tunes IT infrastracture tooling to measure carbon emissions

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Device42 , a startup that helps companies understand and manage their hybrid infrastructure, can see a lot of information about each customer’s hardware and software usage. The company decided to use that ability to look at how each part of the system was contributing to carbon emissions.

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A forensic look into cloud success with Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan

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Operations in on-prem is completely different than in the cloud,” he says. “If If you run your operations the same way as when you operated in data centers, the cloud will be three to five times as expensive.” On managing software business operations: In our hardware business, the COO runs the supply chain.

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MetalSoft aims to help manage server infrastructure through automation

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Aiming to overcome some of the blockers to success in IT, Lucas Roh co-founded MetalSoft , a startup that provides “ bare metal ” automation software for managing on-premises data centers and multi-vendor equipment. Hostway developed software to power cloud service provider hardware, which went into production in 2014.

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Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan on what cloud success really looks like

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I saw this shift happening at Broadcom, so I decided to shift out of IT and into software operations. What is your focus as head of software business operations? In our hardware business, the COO runs the supply chain. Operations in on-prem is completely different than in the cloud. There is no question about it.

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DriveNets connects with $262M as demand booms for its cloud-based alternative to network routers

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Networking as it exists pre-DriveNets is largely focused around costly hardware. “During the COVID-19 pandemic they grew their existing networks based by simply buying more of the same to minimize the operational burden,” said Susan.

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Top 8 IT certifications in demand today

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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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