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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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MetalSoft aims to help manage server infrastructure through automation

TechCrunch

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. MetalSoft spun out from Hostway, a cloud hosting provider headquartered in Chicago. .

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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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Enterprise Storage Arrays and NVMe

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

The hot topic in storage today is NVMe, an open standards protocol for digital communications between servers and non-volatile memory storage. NVMe was designed for flash and other non-volatile storage devices that may be in our future. Scalable enterprise NVMe storage arrays will likely require a fabric on the backend.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO

Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern. If the solution’s goal involves processing and storing data, the architect is constrained to place the pieces that will fulfill those tasks in the proper segments.

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96 Percent of Businesses Can’t Be Wrong: How Hybrid Cloud Came to Dominate the Data Sector

Cloudera

Virtual machines came to be, and this meant that several (virtual) environments with their own operating systems could run in one physical computer. . Tech giants began to work on developing cloud-based services—like storage and computation—and offering them to clients.

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Ivanti Security Appliance (ISA) Series: Built for Secure Access

Ivanti

The ISA-6000 now includes two 1/10Gbit ports for faster connectivity, fast 6Gb/s solid-state storage, double the RAM of the PSA-5000 series appliance and an onboard TPM chip to ensure software and operating system integrity. Learn more about Ivanti Security Appliance.