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Uber embraces the cloud with customized CPUs

CIO

When Uber decided in 2022 to shift away from running its own data centers, the ridesharing and delivery company wanted a high level of control for how its workloads ran in the cloud, down to the CPU level. At the same time, the growth of Uber’s fleet required the company to expand into more data centers and availability zones.

Cloud 306
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TeraSky—Providing award-winning infrastructure modernization solutions with VMware

CIO

Since 2010, TeraSky has provided end-to-end solutions to enable customers to handle data center modernization and hybrid and multi-cloud implementation. To do this, Cellebrite needed a “single pane of glass” from which they could see everything, no matter if an application ran in the data center or in the cloud.

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UK Power Networks gets smart about cloud transformation

CIO

Centered on Microsoft Azure for its cloud needs, UK Power Networks will retain on-prem systems in two data centers to store highly secure, sensitive data and services that are vulnerable to cyberattacks, says CIO Matt Webb, who has been with the power company for 15 years.

Network 290
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Why CIOs Need to Understand Apache Cassandra

CIO

Cassandra’s early days In the mid-2000s, engineers at young, fast-growing Facebook had a problem: how could they store and access the mushrooming data created by Messenger, the platform that enabled users of the social networking site to communicate with one another? By 2013, most of Netflix’s data was housed in Cassandra.

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The Rise of Hybrid Cloud: 7 Reasons Why It Might be a Better Choice

OverOps

Many organizations committed themselves to move complete data center applications onto the public cloud. Though the term ‘Hybrid Cloud’ has been around since 2010, it was only later in 2017 when the concept actually took off. This transforms two distinct solutions into a single integrated architecture.

Cloud 189
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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO

And when Geely bought the company in 2010, it led to a geographical expansion, but until now there’s never been such a thorough and comprehensive effort to modernize the digital landscape, according to Altehed. Now that systems are being replaced, it’s also about creating a new architecture without those types of connections.

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Why enterprise CIOs need to plan for Microsoft gen AI

CIO

“Generative AI and the specific workloads needed for inference introduce more complexity to their supply chain and how they load balance compute and inference workloads across data center regions and different geographies,” says distinguished VP analyst at Gartner Jason Wong. This isn’t a new issue.