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From edge to cloud: The critical role of hardware in AI applications

CIO

All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution. So what does it take on the hardware side? The rise of AI means that the network is the computer, and connectivity is its lifeline.

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EnCharge AI emerges from stealth with $21.7M to develop AI accelerator hardware

TechCrunch

EnCharge AI , a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge , today emerged from stealth with $21.7 Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements.

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Cloud storage startup Wasabi raises $250M to reach unicorn status

TechCrunch

Two at the forefront are David Friend and Jeff Flowers, who co-founded Wasabi, a cloud startup offering services competitive with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Wasabi, which doesn’t charge fees for egress or API requests, claims its storage fees work out to one-fifth of the cost of Amazon S3’s.

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The impact of AI on edge computing

CIO

IDC forecast shows that enterprise spending (which includes GenAI software, as well as related infrastructure hardware and IT/business services), is expected to more than double in 2024 and reach $151.1 Transmitting massive amounts of raw data to the cloud can strain network bandwidth. over the 2023-2027 forecast period 1. over 2023 2.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. But rapid hardware advances may mean CIOs need to budget for much shorter hardware refresh cycles in future to stay up to date.

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

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Is it SaaS, IaaS, or NaaS?

CIO

Let’s look at 3 prime examples: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) SaaS is defined as any software application delivered and accessed via the cloud in a subscription-based offering. NaaS is different from SaaS and IaaS because it relates only to networking functionality, (i.e.,