Microsoft will invest $80B in AI data centers in fiscal 2025
CIO
JANUARY 6, 2025
Microsoft is on track to invest around $80 billion this fiscal year to build out AI-enabled data centers, company president Brad Smith said Friday.
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CIO
JANUARY 6, 2025
Microsoft is on track to invest around $80 billion this fiscal year to build out AI-enabled data centers, company president Brad Smith said Friday.
TechCrunch
APRIL 4, 2022
AMD is in the chip business, and a big part of that these days involves operating in data centers at an enormous scale. AMD announced today that it intends to acquire data center optimization startup Pensando for approximately $1.9 Jain will join the data center solutions group at AMD when the deal closes.
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 9, 2023
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.
The Crazy Programmer
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Prerequisites: Microsoft Azure Subscription. So now you understand what is Virtual Machine, let’s see how to create one using Microsoft Azure. How to Create a Virtual Machine in Azure? To create a virtual machine go to Azure Portal. Region – There are various regions available in the Azure Portal.
CIO
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Yet, despite its potential, cloud computing has not fully leveraged these advantages in managing complex cloud environments. Much like finance, HR, and sales functions, organizations aim to streamline cloud operations to address resource limitations and standardize services.
CIO
MARCH 18, 2025
Ultra microservices are for multi-GPU servers and data-center-scale applications. Microsoft is expanding its Azure AI Foundry model catalog with Llama Nemotron reasoning models and NIM microservices to enhance services such as the Azure AI Agent Service for Microsoft 365.
CIO
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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.
CIO
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By definition, hyper-converged tech delivers far higher levels of automation than standalone offerings due to the engineering to consolidate the platform, and is built on the familiar technologies of Microsoft Azure Local hosted by Dell Technologies server platforms 1. This means that automation and skills are addressed at the outset.
Erik Bernhardsson
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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 at the time was the first data warehouse running in the cloud. What if… ?
CIO
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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.
Palo Alto Networks
OCTOBER 22, 2024
{{interview_audio_title}} 00:00 00:00 Volume Slider 10s 10s 10s 10s Seek Slider The genesis of cloud computing can be traced back to the 1960s concept of utility computing, but it came into its own with the launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2006. This alarming upward trend highlights the urgent need for robust cloud security measures.
CIO
JANUARY 1, 2025
Koletzki would use the move to upgrade the IT environment from a small data room to something more scalable. At the time, AerCap management had concerns about the shared infrastructure of public cloud, so the business was run out from dual data centers. Hes very clear its a holding maneuver before theyre moved to Azure.
CIO
MAY 6, 2024
The cloud services landscape is in constant flux. With the cloud being an inevitable part of enterprise digital transformation journeys, IT leaders must keep on top of the latest developments in the cloud market to better predict downstream impacts on their roadmaps.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Looking ahead to a future in which customers will move their entire data center workloads to the cloud, Microsoft and Oracle on Thursday expanded their partnership. Ellison says the offering, dubbed Oracle Database@Azure, will help many of its customers fully migrate from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.
CIO
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Like the PC revolution of the 80s and 90s, and the rise of cloud computing and SaaS in the early 2000s, when everyone has access to the same tools, its the way theyre used that confers a competitive advantage. To benefit from this wider range of RAG services, organizations need to ensure their data is AI-ready.
Kaseya
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CIO
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
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. We just didn’t use the cloud as a tool and just stay there comfortably.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2020
And you don’t build an in-house data center team. Instead, you farm out your infrastructure needs to the major cloud platforms, namely Amazon AWS , Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. So spending less on AWS or Azure would be nice for startups. Is the vaunted cloud acceleration falling flat?
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
DevOps cloud platform Render , which won our Disrupt SF 2019 Startup Battlefield , announced today that it closed a $20 million Series A funding round led by Addition alongside existing investors General Catalyst and South Park Commons. Most of Render’s customers use its platform for their entire cloud presence, according to Goel.
CIO
JULY 12, 2022
We recently caught up with Mike Fuhrman, Chief Product and Information Officer at Flexential, to learn how the company is helping customers gain the connectivity and cloud solutions they need and what it means to be VMware Cloud Verified. All of the company’s cloud offerings are based on VMware technology.
CIO
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After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2023
CoreWeave , an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues to transition to a general-purpose cloud computing platform. based data center expansion with the opening of two new centers this year, CEO Mike Intrator said. For perspective, AWS made $80.1
Dzone - DevOps
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Cloud computing has rapidly become a strong driving factor for companies worldwide, as software is transferred out of in-house data centers in an effort to modernize, reduce costs, and boost agility. Microsoft Azure comes in 2nd place with a 21% market share, followed by Google Cloud with an 8%.
CIO
OCTOBER 17, 2023
The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. He adds, “This is behind the drive to generative AI by the cloud providers.
CIO
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud. Cloud costs continue to be a top concern for CIOs,” says Dave McCarthy, analyst at IDC.
CIO
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Enterprise infrastructures have expanded far beyond the traditional ones focused on company-owned and -operated data centers. Larsen recommends obtaining and stayingup to dateon relevant certifications, such as those related to the major cloud providers.
CIO
MAY 14, 2024
Private cloud providers may be among the key beneficiaries of today’s generative AI gold rush as, once seemingly passé in favor of public cloud, CIOs are giving private clouds — either on-premises or hosted by a partner — a second look. The excitement and related fears surrounding AI only reinforces the need for private clouds.
CIO
APRIL 11, 2024
In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan , Mexico , and the Middle East.
Kentik
JUNE 27, 2023
Today, the phrase “cloud migration” means a lot more than it used to – gone are the days of the simple lift and shift. To that end, we’re excited to announce major updates to Kentik Cloud that will make your teams more efficient (and happier) in multi-cloud.
Palo Alto Networks
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Securing your hybrid multi-cloud environment just got easier. It leverages the power of the hybrid cloud to extend workloads to Azure seamlessly from on-premises. NC2 provides a consistent experience to provision and manage Nutanix clusters on-premises or deployed in Azure, enabling workload mobility across clouds.
CIO
OCTOBER 21, 2022
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CIO
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Negli ultimi tempi, le strategie cloud sono andate incontro a un cambiamento radicale, con i CIO che stanno diventando sempre più propensi a sfruttare al meglio le formule multiple. Si limitano a prevedere carichi di lavoro in più cloud. Molte strategie ‘multicloud’ non sono effettivamente tali.
CIO
DECEMBER 10, 2024
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CIO
AUGUST 2, 2024
Hannah Duce, director of strategic alliances at Rackspace Technology, and Edward Kerr, the company’s product director, are quick to point out that different industries have different needs for the cloud and are often best served by highly customized solutions created to address their unique needs. It’s a formula that clearly works.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
The cloud services sector is still dominated by Amazon and the other so-called “hyperscalers” — e.g. the Microsoft Azures, Google Cloud Platforms and IBM Clouds of the world. ” Friend and Flowers joined forces in 2015 to start Wasabi, when Friend was still the CEO of cloud backup company Carbonite.
CIO
AUGUST 2, 2022
Fueled by enterprise demand for data analytics , machine learning , data center consolidation and cloud-native app developmen t, spending on cloud infrastructure services jumped 33% year on year to $62.3 Cloud providers build out infrastructure. Cloud Computing, Technology Industry billion out of $62.3
InfoWorld
JUNE 20, 2024
Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s annual Azure infrastructure presentations at Build are always fascinating as he explores the past, present, and future of the hardware that underpins the cloud. Over the years it’s been clear that Azure’s hardware has grown increasingly complex.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
There’s no doubt we’re now living in a hybrid multi-cloud age. Companies are using major cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCP with niche cloud computing providers emerging within the market. Simultaneously, many organizations still retain workloads in on-premises data centers or embrace colocation.
CIO
OCTOBER 26, 2022
While overall revenue growth slowed to 6% in the quarter for Alphabet, Google Cloud grew 38% year-on-year to $6.9 I’ve long shared that cloud is a key priority for the company,” said Sundar Pichai, CEO at Alphabet, while addressing analysts on Tuesday, according to a transcript from Motley Fool.
CIO
JUNE 20, 2024
James Ochoa, vice president of cloud solutions at Flexential, views the company’s extensive portfolio not simply as a collection of innovative, bespoke, and proven technologies, but more fundamentally as the solution it uses to help more than 3,000 enterprises in more than 20 industries solve their business challenges.
CIO
DECEMBER 14, 2023
As CIOs seek to achieve economies of scale in the cloud, a risk inherent in many of their strategies is taking on greater importance of late: consolidating on too few if not just a single major cloud vendor. C-suite executives betting on a primary cloud provider are also worried about reducing their options in the long term.
CIO
JUNE 12, 2024
For some organizations, shifting to the cloud has been a relatively quick race toward highly publicized benefits, such as scalability. The reality is we’ve been incrementally migrating certain applications, workloads, and processes to the cloud over a number of years. “The
TechCrunch
JUNE 28, 2022
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.
Palo Alto Networks
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Palo Alto Networks and Microsoft are proud to announce the latest integration between Prisma Access and Prisma Cloud, and Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Digital transformation and growing cloud adoption have pushed applications and services away from campus networks. This new environment brings challenges.
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