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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

That’s why Uri Beitler launched Pliops , a startup developing what he calls “data processors” for enterprise and cloud data centers. “It became clear that today’s data needs are incompatible with yesterday’s data center architecture. Image Credits: Pliops.

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

In an era when artificial intelligence (AI) and other resource-intensive technologies demand unprecedented computing power, data centers are starting to buckle, and CIOs are feeling the budget pressure. There are many challenges in managing a traditional data center, starting with the refresh cycle.

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has upped the ante across all tech arenas, including one of the most traditional ones: data centers. Modern data centers are running hotter than ever – not just to manage ever-increasing processing demands, but also rising temperatures as the result of AI workloads, which sees no end in sight.

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CIO

MAY 15, 2024

The European Union will take a big step toward regulating energy and water use by data centers in September, when organizations operating data centers in EU nations will be required to file reports detailing water and energy consumption, as well as steps they are taking to reduce it. between 2020 and 2030.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

EnCharge AI , a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge , today emerged from stealth with $21.7 Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Soon after, when I worked at a publicly traded company, our on-prem data center was resilient enough to operate through a moderate earthquake. You need to make sure that the data you’re tracking is coming from the right types of people.” 10 tips for de-risking hardware products Thinking about pulling the plug on your startup?

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

Chinas largest tech giants such as Baidu and Tencent have been working on their own large language models (LLMs) for some time now, andthe unexpected debutof DeepSeek , despite numerous hardware sanctions, surprised even the most powerful AI companies from the West. [

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O'Reilly Media - Data

JULY 19, 2018

In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Andrew Feldman, founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems , a startup in the blossoming area of specialized hardware for machine learning. A lot of the work to date happened primarily on general purpose hardware (CPU, GPU).

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from traditional centralized data centers to distributed “centers of data.” The new service packs will be orderable later in 2023.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

“We look at every business individually and guide them through the entire process from planning to predicting costs – something made far easier by our straightforward pricing model – to the migration of systems and data, the modernization and optimization of new cloud investments, and their protection and ideal management long-term,” he says. “We

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If there’s any doubt that mainframes will have a place in the AI future, many organizations running the hardware are already planning for it. Many organizations have their mission-critical data residing on mainframes, and it may make sense to run AI models where that data resides, Dyer says.

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2023

All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. The apps and tools have to gather, process and deliver back data to the consumer with minimal latency. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

But the upshot of this was, ‘You’re going to have to spend upwards of a million dollars potentially to run this in your data center, just with the new hardware software requirements.’ “And “The customer really liked the results,” he says. And the business comes back and says, ‘Why would we spend a million dollars?

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David Heinemeier Hansson

MARCH 26, 2025

We've already racked the replacement from Pure Storage in our two primary data centers. Pure Storage comes with an S3-compatible API, so no need for CEPH, Minio, or any of the other object storage software solutions you might need, if you were trying to do this exercise on commodity hardware. But there's still work to do.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

1] However, expanding AI within organizations comes with challenges, including high per-seat licensing costs, increased network loads from cloud-based services, environmental impacts from energy-intensive data centers, and the intrinsic difficulty of complex technology integrations. Fortunately, a solution is at hand.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

” Long before the team had working hardware, though, the company focused on building its compiler to ensure that its solution could actually address its customers’ needs. In addition, its software optimizes the overall data flow inside the architecture based on the specific workload. Image Credits: Deep Vision.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

NeuReality , an Israeli AI hardware startup that is working on a novel approach to improving AI inferencing platforms by doing away with the current CPU-centric model, is coming out of stealth today and announcing an $8 million seed round. The group of investors includes Cardumen Capital, crowdfunding platform OurCrowd and Varana Capital.

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

Moving workloads to the cloud can enable enterprises to decommission hardware to reduce maintenance, management, and capital expenses. There are many compelling use cases for running VMs in Google Cloud VMware Engine, including: Data center extension. Refresh cycle. Disaster recovery.

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CIO

MARCH 31, 2025

Core challenges for sovereign AI Resource constraints Developing and maintaining sovereign AI systems requires significant investments in infrastructure, including hardware (e.g., high-performance computing GPU), data centers, and energy. The user has full control of the input, output and the data that the model will train on.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

AI-ready data is not something CIOs need to produce for just one application theyll need it for all applications that require enterprise-specific intelligence. Unfortunately, many IT leaders are discovering that this goal cant be reached using standard data practices, and traditional IT hardware and software.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

They basically have a comprehensive solution from the chip all the way to data centers at this point,” he says. But Nvidia’s many announcements during the conference didn’t address a handful of ongoing challenges on the hardware side of AI. The answer is, not yet.”

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Drawing from current deployment patterns where companies like OpenAI are racing to build supersized data centers to meet the ever-increasing demand for compute power three critical infrastructure shifts are reshaping enterprise AI deployment. Here’s what technical leaders need to know, beyond the hype.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But the competition, while fierce, hasn’t scared away firms like NeuReality , which occupy the AI chip inferencing market but aim to differentiate themselves by offering a suite of software and services to support their hardware.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

For IT teams, satisfying new climate-friendly energy budgets is presenting a challenge, particularly when dealing with older computer hardware. At the same time, acquiring improved, less power-sucking machines is becoming tougher both because of shipping backlogs and because hardware is quickly running up against efficiency limits.

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 17, 2025

Are you inspecting and securing edge traffic between field cabinets and data centers? By integrating AI-powered security with advanced visibility and control, this platform safeguards every connected DOT-ITS asset, from field cabinets to data centers. Enhancing incident response capabilities to reduce operational risks.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

” Helion’s CEO speculates that its first customers may turn out to be data centers, which have a couple of advantages over other potential customers. Data centers are power-hungry, and often already have power infrastructure in place in order to be able to accept backup generators.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Data centers are taking on ever-more specialized chips to handle different kinds of workloads, moving away from CPUs and adopting GPUs and other kinds of accelerators to handle more complex and resource-intensive computing demands. Analytics covers about 50% of the expense in a data center, so that is a huge market.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

While direct liquid cooling (DLC) is being deployed in data centers today more than ever before, would you be surprised to learn that we’ve been deploying it in our data center designs at Digital Realty since 2015? The power density requirements for AI and HPC can be 5-10 times higher than other data center use cases.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Broadcom’s product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, […]. Broadcom Inc. is an American designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Aiming to overcome some of the blockers to success in IT, Lucas Roh co-founded MetalSoft , a startup that provides “ bare metal ” automation software for managing on-premises data centers and multi-vendor equipment. Hostway developed software to power cloud service provider hardware, which went into production in 2014.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s an idea we’re proud to support, as it aligns with our own Data Center of the Future initiative. We believe investing in sustainable data center technologies isn’t just the right thing to do for the future of our planet; it can also be a key source of business value for our customers today.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Device42 , a startup that helps companies understand and manage their hybrid infrastructure, can see a lot of information about each customer’s hardware and software usage. The company decided to use that ability to look at how each part of the system was contributing to carbon emissions.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here are six tips for developing and deploying AI without huge investments in expert staff or exotic hardware. However, the investment in supercomputing infrastructure, HPC expertise, and data scientists is beyond all but the largest hyperscalers, enterprises, and government agencies. Not at all.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

AMD is acquiring server maker ZT Systems to strengthen its data center technology as it steps up its challenge to Nvidia in the competitive AI chip market. From a broader market perspective, AMD’s recent acquisitions also underscore that AI success relies on the seamless integration of hardware and software, not just hardware alone.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2022

The 3% increase in total IT spending represents slower growth than in 2021, as the economy as a whole and the IT sector in particular began to recover from the effects of the pandemic, and growth will largely be driven by cloud services and the data center, Gartner said. Cloud Computing, Data Center, Technology Industry

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