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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3 billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region.

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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

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Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLennan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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Delivering better business outcomes for CIOs

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However, enterprise cloud computing still faces similar challenges in achieving efficiency and simplicity, particularly in managing diverse cloud resources and optimizing data management. AI models are often developed in the public cloud, but the data is stored in data centers and at the edge.

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Nutanix CEO sees multi-year opportunity after Broadcom’s VMware acquisition

CIO

Historically, data center virtualization pioneer VMware was seen as a technology leader, but recent business changes have stirred consternation since its acquisition by Broadcom in late 2023. The Register later noted “ whispers about a breakup with AWS ,” despite Broadcom addressing the issue in a blog post.

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Marsh McLellan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLellan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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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. Redshift is a data warehouse (aka OLAP database) offered by AWS. That seems kind of bad for AWS?

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It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit

David Heinemeier Hansson

million/year on AWS S3 at the moment to host files for Basecamp , HEY , and everything else. We've already racked the replacement from Pure Storage in our two primary data centers. We've already racked the replacement from Pure Storage in our two primary data centers. We're spending just shy of $1.5

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