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Salesforce IT injects generative AI to ease its massive datacenter migration

CIO

When you’re tasked with migrating 200,000 servers to a new operating system, a helping hand is very welcome indeed. This is going to change how infrastructure is managed.” As part of that effort, the IT team has trained LLMs on event logs to ensure the system can more accurately predict and analyze real-time data logs.

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MetalSoft aims to help manage server infrastructure through automation

TechCrunch

Unfortunately for execs, at the same time recruiting is posing a major challenge, IT infrastructure is becoming more costly to maintain. “We’re differentiated from others in that we automate and manage the full stack [of infrastructure], including switches, servers, storage and networking as well as cloud enablement.”

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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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Data Center Modernization - Transforming Data Center Focus from Infrastructure to Information

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

While the acronym IT stands for Information Technology and is synonymous with the data center, in reality the focus of IT has often been more on infrastructure since infrastructure represented the bulk of a data center’s capital and operational costs.

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Device42 tunes IT infrastracture tooling to measure carbon emissions

TechCrunch

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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UK Power Networks gets smart about cloud transformation

CIO

The London-based energy distributor and system operator is close to completing a major migration to a hybrid cloud infrastructure that will serve roughly one third of all residents and businesses in the United Kingdom.

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10 IT skills where expertise pays the most

CIO

NetApp Founded in 1992, NetApp offers several products using the company’s proprietary ONTAP data management operating system. It can cut down on the maintenance for on-premises data centers, ultimately helping organizations cut costs while boosting reliability.

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