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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.

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AVM Cloud: Empowering Enterprises in Malaysia to Deploy a Robust Sovereign Cloud

CIO

Originally known as Integrated Global Solutions Technologies, AVM Cloud has a long relationship with VMware going back to 2010. Notably, AVM Cloud also offers a number of custom cloud solutions. This includes an ever-growing portfolio of cloud-native applications based on VMware Tanzu.

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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.

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Why CIOs Need to Understand Apache Cassandra

CIO

Here, I’ll give you an overview of Cassandra, along with a few reasons why this database might just be the right way to persist data at your organization and ensure your data and the apps that your developers build on it are infinitely scalable, secure, and fast. By 2013, most of Netflix’s data was housed in Cassandra.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO

The automotive industry keeps accelerating into the technological switch to electric engines, and all efforts at Volvo Cars point to a clear ambition to be a clear frontrunner. Altehed also says that Volvo’s systems span five decades, starting with mainframe environments from the 1970s and into modern technologies and tools recently launched.

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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.

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

OverOps

Two main shifts in the market have driven this change: The ever-increasing diversity of products, technologies, tools and clouds that are being used by organizations in a bid to support their changing business requirements. The increasing willingness of the information technology industry to accept this growing and penetrative diversity.

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