CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The data center market in Spain continues to heat up with the latest major development from Dubai-based Damac Group. The company has announced its entry into the Spanish market with the acquisition of land in Madrid, where it plans to build a state-of-the-art data center.

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CIO

JULY 5, 2024

The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. Clients are seeing increased costs with on-premises virtualization with Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

As CIOs respond to corporate mandates to “just do something” with genAI, many are launching cloud-based or on-premises initiatives. But while the payback promised by many genAI projects is nebulous, the costs of the infrastructure to run them is finite, and too often, unacceptably high. billion in 2022 to $57 billion in 2027.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Part of the problem is that data-intensive workloads require substantial resources, and that adding the necessary compute and storage infrastructure is often expensive. For companies moving to the cloud specifically, IDG reports that they plan to devote $78 million toward infrastructure this year.

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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. Startups are coming for the cloud.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

In my role as CTO, I’m often asked how Digital Realty designs our data centers to support new and future workloads, both efficiently and sustainably. Digital Realty first presented publicly on the implications of AI for data centers in 2017, but we were tracking its evolution well before that.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Organizations experimenting with gen AI typically set up enterprise-grade accounts with cloud-based services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, and early field tests and productivity benefits may inspire them to look for more opportunities to deploy the technology. We have a rinse and repeat cycle.”

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CIO

MARCH 5, 2024

billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. Amazon — alongside its US-based cloud competitors Google and Microsoft — acted quickly to set up regional headquarters in Saudi Arabia. billion to launch new cloud areas.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Most AI workloads are deployed in private cloud or on-premises environments, driven by data locality and compliance needs. AI a primary driver in IT modernization and data mobility AI’s demand for data requires businesses to have a secure and accessible data strategy. Cost, by comparison, ranks a distant 10th.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Stacklet , a startup that is commercializing the Cloud Custodian open-source cloud governance project, today announced that it has raised an $18 million Series A funding round. “When I joined Capital One, they had made the executive decision to go all-in on cloud and close their data centers,” Thangavelu told me.

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CIO

JULY 22, 2024

IT leader and former CIO Stanley Mwangi Chege has heard executives complain for years about cloud deployments, citing rapidly escalating costs and data privacy challenges as top reasons for their frustrations. In that case, the board’s bank was troubled by the volume of unexpected fees charged by cloud providers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In the early 2000s, most business-critical software was hosted on privately run data centers. But with time, enterprises overcame their skepticism and moved critical applications to the cloud. Similar to cloud-native startups, many startups today are ML native and offer differentiated products to their customers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

Companies collectively spent $61 billion on cloud infrastructure in Q4 2022, and there’s more growth to come. Yet, businesses are poorly protected from losses caused by cloud downtime. For e-commerce businesses large and small, it is easy to see how cloud downtime can result in a loss of revenue.

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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. Now, 95% of Oracle’s services run on Ampere infrastructure, according to the semiconductor company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Unfortunately for execs, at the same time recruiting is posing a major challenge, IT infrastructure is becoming more costly to maintain. Business monitoring company Anodot reports that nearly half of corporations are finding it difficult to get cloud costs alone under control.

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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. .

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Du, one of the largest telecommunications operators in the Middle East, is deploying Oracle Alloy to offer cloud and sovereign AI services to business, government, and public sector organizations in the UAE. However, with the rapid adoption of AI and cloud technologies, concerns over security and data privacy are paramount.

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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.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

IBM is all set to increase its cloud services costs by up to 26% from January 2024. The new price rise will affect infrastructure-as-a-service ( IaaS ) and platform-as-a-service ( PaaS ) offerings, the company said in a GitHub post. Cloud Computing, IBM

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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.

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CIO

JANUARY 16, 2023

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. With Amazon taking care of infrastructure, patching, and security, Choice’s 650-member Scottsdale, Ariz.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Oracle on Wednesday said it is opening a second cloud region in Chile as part of ongoing efforts to expand its global cloud footprint to compete with the larger rivals including AWS, Microsoft, and Google. In contrast, Google has two cloud regions in South America — Santiago, Chile, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Cloud Computing

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

Gr4vy , (pronounced “gravy”) is a cloud-native payments company with a “payment orchestration platform (POP)” that merges a cloud platform with payments infrastructure. We needed to give you something that allows do it yourself and fits into your infrastructure. Gr4vy is also payment service provider agnostic.

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

The outage put enterprises, cloud services providers, and critical infrastructure providers into precarious positions, and has drawn attention to how dominant CrowdStrike’s market share has become, commanding an estimated 24% of the endpoint detection and response (EDR) market. It also highlights the downsides of concentration risk.

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CIO

AUGUST 26, 2024

As a country rapidly transforming into a digital economy hub, Thailand is taking the lead in cloud technology and the development of its digital infrastructure in the region. The data centers currently serve pan-government entities, large enterprises, and some of Thailand’s regional customers.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

billion in Germany by the end of 2025 to double the artificial intelligence and cloud capacities of its data centers there. We need a strong digital infrastructure and the right skills. One focus will be on expanding the cloud region around Frankfurt am Main. Microsoft will invest €3.2

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

The cloud computing revolution brought with it many innovations, but also lessons about the pitfalls of rapidly adopting new technologies without a well-planned strategy. Applying shadow IT’s lessons to Generative AI As organizations build their AI strategies, the lessons from the cloud era can be particularly invaluable.

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Erik Bernhardsson

OCTOBER 18, 2022

about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider. I encountered AWS in 2006 or 2007 and remember thinking that it's crazy — why would anyone want to put their stuff in someone else's data center? Less time spent on infrastructure. We've seen Cloud 1.0

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

The Data and Cloud Computing Center is the first center for analyzing and processing big data and artificial intelligence in Egypt and North Africa, saving time, effort and money, thus enhancing new investment opportunities.

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CIO

JULY 26, 2024

But the majority of companies in Germany, in particular, rely on the cloud in its various facets, and have now achieved a certain level of maturity when it comes to migrating workloads. The pressure to modernize IT and business processes has now clearly led to most cloud transformation projects being planned and implemented.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Most CIOs recognize the advantages of cloud, the global reach it provides, and the ease with which services can be scaled up and back down again. Your customers don’t care about your data centers,” says Drew Firment, chief cloud strategist at online education company Pluralsight. They care about value.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In addition, the emergence of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud where companies are migrating more workloads and apps from on-prem to public cloud is accelerating at an unprecedented rate. Lastly, the number of data silos within enterprises is increasing as well. Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform).

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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

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Darren Adcock, product manager at Redcentric responsible for the company’s privately owned Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, the Redcentric Cloud, has strong beliefs about what differentiates a cloud vendor from a cloud partner. Adcock is not alone in his views.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Using this framework, they can then build and manage their pipelines for a variety of use cases, including their software delivery lifecycle, infrastructure as code and their SaaS application releases. Ranganathan then spent the last three years at Uber, where he ran that company’s global infrastructure. Image Credits: Opsera.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

But as these customers grow in size and complexity — and as you rope in larger organizations — scaling your infrastructure for the enterprise becomes critical for success. Below are four tips on how to advance your company’s infrastructure to support and grow with your largest customers. uptime or higher.

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