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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO

If you look at Amazon’s journey, and the way they run their data centers, they claim to be five times more energy efficient than an average data center.” Choice closed one data center last year and plans to close its second data center in 2023.

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Serverless NiFi Flows with DataFlow Functions: The Next Step in the DataFlow Service Evolution

Cloudera

With DFF, users now have the choice of deploying NiFi flows not only as long-running auto scaling Kubernetes clusters but also as functions on cloud providers’ serverless compute services including AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions. New use cases: event-driven, batch, and microservices.

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

CIO

I often ask vendors to walk me through their product quote and explain what each product SKU or line item is, such as the cost for an application with the microservices and containerization,” Phelps says. ADP, a 75-year-old company with considerable experience running data centers, is a seasoned veteran in the cloud.

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MoneyGram profits from mainframe move to multicloud

CIO

As expected, operating in the cloud has enabled the 80-year-old company to significantly reduce the cost of running its data center in Minneapolis. Our cloud journey continues to mature,” says Vaughan, who decided to modernize 75% of MoneyGram’s microservices in Kubernetes but not all applications out of the gate.

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Serverless: A simple overview

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Get a basic understanding of serverless, then go deeper with recommended resources. Serverless is a trend in computing that decouples the execution of code, such as in web applications, from the need to maintain servers to run that code. Serverless also offers an innovative billing model and easier scalability.

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The Future of Software Development: Trends to Watch

Invid Group

The cloud has several advantages over conventional on-premise data centers, including access to scalable resources and the ability for businesses to develop, deploy, and manage their applications globally. Applications are divided into discrete, independent serverless computing functions, which are run just as needed.

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AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2024: Accelerate innovation with generative AI on AWS

AWS Machine Learning - AI

The Amazon SageMaker integration with NVIDIA NIM inference microservices will help customers further optimize price-performance of foundation models running on GPUs. (To To learn more, see Optimize price-performance of LLM inference on NVIDIA GPUs using the Amazon SageMaker integration with NVIDIA NIM Microservices.)