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Data center provider fakes Tier 4 data center certificate to bag $11M SEC deal

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Deepak Jain, CEO of a Maryland-based IT services firm, has been indicted for fraud and making false statements after allegedly falsifying a Tier 4 data center certification to secure a $10.7 The Tier 4 data center certificates are awarded by Uptime Institute and not “Uptime Council.”

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

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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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Hungry for resources, AI redefines the data center calculus

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The AI revolution is driving demand for massive computing power and creating a data center shortage, with data center operators planning to build more facilities. But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say.

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Here’s where MLOps is accelerating enterprise AI adoption

TechCrunch

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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Data center design in the age of AI: Integrating AI with legacy Infrastructure

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In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), how can enterprises evaluate whether their existing data center design can fully employ the modern requirements needed to run AI? Evaluating data center design and legacy infrastructure. The art of the data center retrofit.

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Will VMWare’s licensing changes push devirtualization of data centers?

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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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HPE and Danfoss put excess data center heat to use

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Data centers are hot, in more ways than one. Not only are enterprises and hyperscalers building or expanding their facilities to accommodate increasing interest in artificial intelligence, but that same AI is gobbling power, and thus creating heat — a lot of it. And that means cooling costs are also growing. Any capture is good.