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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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Overcoming the infrastructure challenges to accelerate AI success

CIO

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.

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Cloud storage startup Wasabi raises $250M to reach unicorn status

TechCrunch

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. Wasabi, which doesn’t charge fees for egress or API requests, claims its storage fees work out to one-fifth of the cost of Amazon S3’s.

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Lightbits Labs lands $42M to speed up server data transfers

TechCrunch

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.

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6 cloud market forces impacting IT strategies today

CIO

For Microsoft Azure, this took the form of increased use of Workload Commitments, rather than the traditional Spend Based Commitments. Workload Commitments allow customers to make a “soft commitment” to keeping a certain type of workload on the Azure platform, without committing to a specific monetary consumption amount.

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

Kaseya

As the name suggests, a cloud service provider is essentially a third-party company that offers a cloud-based platform for application, infrastructure or storage services. In a public cloud, all of the hardware, software, networking and storage infrastructure is owned and managed by the cloud service provider. What Is a Public Cloud?