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Eye On AI: As Big Money Rolls Into Data Centers, Startup Investment Gains

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It’s been hard to browse tech headlines this week and not read something about billions of dollars being poured into data centers. billion to develop data centers in Spain. Energy and data center company Crusoe Energy Systems announced it raised $3.4 So far this year, $1.3 So far this year, $1.3

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Are data centers obsolete in the age of AI? Not on our watch…

CIO

In my role as CTO, I’m often asked how Digital Realty designs our data centers to support new and future workloads, both efficiently and sustainably. Digital Realty first presented publicly on the implications of AI for data centers in 2017, but we were tracking its evolution well before that.

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Bridging continents: The role of connectivity in Africa’s digital transformation

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Amidst this progress, however, the lack of data center access raises a big challenge to Africas connectivity, as most countries in Africa have a national data center. But to build this data residency, increased data center and digital infrastructure investment is needed.

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Eye On AI: Funding To Biotech And Healthcare Startups Using AI Takes Off After Dip In 2023

Crunchbase News

billion in 2023, a significant decrease from 2022. billion through early December, per Crunchbase data. While you might think the general fervor around all things artificial intelligence means 2024 is a new high for the intersection of AI and biotech/healthcare, both 2021 and 2022 were strong funding years for the space.

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Enterprise Storage Trends That CIOs Need to Grasp for the Remainder of 2022

CIO

To help make it quick and easy for IT leaders to get a reliable snapshot of the enterprise storage trends, we put together this “trends update” for the second half of 2022. Trend #1: Critical nature of data and cyber resilience in the face of increasing cyberattacks. Storage-as-a-service (STaaS) is emerging in 2022 in a new light.

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CVE-2022-26134: Zero-Day Vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

A critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center has been exploited in the wild by multiple threat actors. On June 2, Atlassian published an advisory for CVE-2022-26134 , a critical zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in Confluence Server and Data Center. What is CVE-2022-26134?

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Africa’s digital economy and digital transformation

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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. launched the Digital Transformation with Africa Initiative (DTA)in December 2022, committing $800 million to the continents digital transformation journey. European Commission ) The U.S.