article thumbnail

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. ” A DPU is a dedicated piece of hardware designed to handle certain data processing tasks, including security and network routing for data traffic. .

Azure 282
article thumbnail

Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization

CIO

For example, Arm platforms, like the Graviton3 offered on AWS, are growing in popularity because they are priced attractively, are energy-efficient, and have the flexibility to perform well in the cloud. The math is simple: Fewer cloud computing resources = lower cloud costs. In the latter case, your cloud bill can see immediate savings.

Cloud 305
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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.

Tools 208
article thumbnail

How generative AI is accelerating silicon diversity

CIO

As an IT leader, you probably haven’t spent a lot of time obsessing over the microprocessors powering your corporate computing hardware. A chef doesn’t stop to consider the electronic systems powering her culinary tools as she’s trying to plan and execute a multi-course menu. And as with DPUs, do so in a more energy-efficient manner.

article thumbnail

Can LEDs ultimately replace the sun?

TechCrunch

The energy efficiency of lamps or production systems can be improved, but not infinitely, so indoor crops will always be heavily dependent on electricity and other industrial support. “You That’s critical at a time when the world’s climate is increasingly at a breaking point.

article thumbnail

Meltdown and Spectre: What they are, and what to do

The Parallax

The bad news is that because the vulnerabilities are in the hardware architecture of the chips that power them, patched devices may run slower. Meltdown breaks down the barriers between software and the operating system; Spectre breaks down barriers between software programs. “ This is the start of a new bug class.

Hardware 214
article thumbnail

Green Software and Carbon Hack 2022

Apiumhub

Green Software Foundation defines “green software” as a new field that combines climate science, hardware, software, electricity markets, and data center design to create carbon-efficient software that emits the least amount of carbon possible. Green Partnerships We should ponder three questions : What knowledge are we lacking?