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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. Companies are beginning to realize that they’ve got to get on this right away and move to a well-supported production-ready operating system,” Lutz says. There are misconceptions about this,” he adds.

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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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Device42 tunes IT infrastracture tooling to measure carbon emissions

TechCrunch

That includes] the physical layer all the way to the application and everything in between, including operating systems, software services, even the resource utilization data to help companies with right sizing,” company co-founder and CEO Raj Jalan told TechCrunch.

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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. They include the VSP F350, F370, G350 and G370 systems.

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

CIO

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.” Developers love to build their own tools, but that’s not necessary in the cloud.

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Mainframe modernization holds the key to IBM i success

CIO

IBM mainframe technology is a data center lynchpin for many organizations. Introduced 35 years ago as OS/400, a survey of IBM i users by Forta found that seven out of 10 use IBM i, an operating system developed by IBM for IBM Power Systems, to run more than half of their applications. and IBM i 7.5, and IBM i 7.5,

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

CIO

Operations in on-prem is completely different than in the cloud. 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. With on-prem data centers, you innovate once in five years because that’s how data center technology refresh works.

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