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AMD to acquire data center optimization startup Pensando for $2B

TechCrunch

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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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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Azure Virtual Machine Tutorial

The Crazy Programmer

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.

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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 at the time was the first data warehouse running in the cloud. What if… ?

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6 cloud market forces impacting IT strategies today

CIO

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.

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Microsoft, Oracle deliver direct access to Oracle database services on Azure

CIO

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.

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

CIO

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.

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