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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. ” The Fungible team will join Microsoft’s data center infrastructure engineering teams, Bablani said. .

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ANYbotics, Swiss company behind quadrupedal ANYmal robot, announces $20M A round

TechCrunch

The company spun out of ETH Zurich in 2016, at which point the robot was already well into development. An ANYmal at a factory, power plant, or data center could save costs and shoe leather. ANYbotics , the creators of ANYmal , a four-legged autonomous robot platform intended for a variety of industrial uses, has raised a $22.3

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Zededa lands a cash infusion to expand its edge device management software

TechCrunch

The only successful way to manage this type of environment was for organizations to have visibility across all the hardware, applications, clouds and networks distributed across their edge environments, just like they have in the data center or cloud.” Image Credits: Zededa.

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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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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

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Kelly Ahuja, a Cisco alum, was tapped as Versa’s CEO in 2016. Through partnerships with service providers, Versa connects users to apps in the cloud or data centers with security layered on top — like data loss prevention tools and gateway firewalls.

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Think carefully before considering cloud repatriation

CIO

While computing power and hardware costs are lower on the cloud, your approach may not allow you to enjoy these savings,” explains Neal Sample, consultant and former CIO of Northwestern Mutual. Why buy real estate and hardware and pay extra salaries only to save a small amount? million from 2015 to 2016 and an additional $35.1

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Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan on what cloud success really looks like

CIO

Martha Heller: Since joining Broadcom 2016, you have been CIO, then CTO and head of software business operations, and now CTO, chief security officer, and head of software engineering and operations. In our hardware business, the COO runs the supply chain. How has your role shifted through that trajectory? I do control the costs.

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