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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. But its DPU architecture was difficult to develop for, reportedly, which might’ve affected its momentum.

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Africa’s digital economy and digital transformation

CIO

For data center capacity to spread to more regions of Africa, there will need to be a major effort to create structure for overland routes. 2 The data regulations landscape on the continent remains fluid, but its also a top priority within established data economies in Africa.

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Lightbits Labs lands $42M to speed up server data transfers

TechCrunch

Data centers with servers attached to solid-state drives (SSDs) can suffer from an imbalance of storage and compute. Either there’s not enough processing power to go around, or physical storage limits get in the way of data transfers, Lightbits Labs CEO Eran Kirzner explains to TechCrunch. ” Image Credits: Lightbits Labs.

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AoAD2 Practice: Evolutionary System Architecture

James Shore

Evolutionary System Architecture. What about your system architecture? By system architecture, I mean all the components that make up your deployed system. When you do, you get evolutionary system architecture. Netflix shut down their data centers and moved everything to the cloud! Craver 2016].

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

OverOps

The second phase of cloud evolution occurred between 2014 and 2016. Many organizations committed themselves to move complete data center applications onto the public cloud. This ensures that your hybrid cloud architecture can have the same security standards as those of the public cloud architecture.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors 1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. You want to run things in the same cloud provider 9 and in the same data center 10. Databases, running code, you name it.

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Yotascale raises a $13M Series B to help companies track and manage their cloud spends

TechCrunch

And you don’t build an in-house data center team. After starting to work on Yotascale in mid 2015, the company raised some capital in 2016. These days when you found a startup, you don’t go out and buy a rack of servers.

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