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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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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, 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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Oracle inks deal with AWS to offer database services

CIO

In September last year, the company started collocating its Oracle database hardware (including Oracle Exadata) and software in Microsoft Azure data centers , giving customers direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) via Azure.

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AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Comparing Cloud Platforms

Kaseya

In a public cloud, all of the hardware, software, networking and storage infrastructure is owned and managed by the cloud service provider. In addition, you can also take advantage of the reliability of multiple cloud data centers as well as responsive and customizable load balancing that evolves with your changing demands.

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Inside today’s Azure AI cloud data centers

InfoWorld

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.

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CoreWeave, a GPU-focused cloud compute provider, lands $221M investment

TechCrunch

based data center expansion with the opening of two new centers this year, CEO Mike Intrator said. Venturo, a hobbyist Ethereum miner, cheaply acquired GPUs from insolvent cryptocurrency mining farms, choosing Nvidia hardware for the increased memory (hence Nvidia’s investment in CoreWeave, presumably).