O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 14, 2025

Gartner has generative AI slipping into the trough of disillusionmentand whatever you think of the technologys promise, remember that the disillusionment is a sociological phenomenon, not a technical one, and that it happens because new technologies are overhyped. But OpenAI and Anthropic are demonstrating important paths forward.

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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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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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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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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. AI can be assistive technology,” Dyer says. “I You have both your customer data and then you have what I’ll call the operational data on the mainframe,” she says. “I

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. We also offer flexible month-to-month bridge licensing options for existing hardware, giving customers time to make informed long-term decisions for their business.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Many organizations have launched gen AI projects without cleaning up and organizing their internal data , he adds. We’re seeing a lot of the lack of success in generative AI coming down to something which, in 20/20 hindsight is obvious, which is bad data ,” he says. The customer really liked the results,” he says.

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Dell EMC

MAY 29, 2019

Today, organizations with a modernized infrastructure (aka “modernized” firms) are much better positioned to handle emerging technologies than their competitors with aging hardware. The right software-defined data center (SDDC) solutions can help organizations address those heavy demands and accommodate future growth.

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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

JUNE 6, 2023

In this new blog series, we explore artificial intelligence and automation in technology and the key role it plays in the Broadcom portfolio. All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution.

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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 1, 2024

GPU powerhouse Nvidia has bet its future on AI, and a handful of recent announcements focus on pushing the technology’s capabilities forward while making it available to more organizations. They basically have a comprehensive solution from the chip all the way to data centers at this point,” he says. The answer is, not yet.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The technology promises all the benefits of current-generation nuclear fission generators, at a fraction of the risk, with far less radioactivity when running, and with very little radioactive waste. We had to prove some of the technologies on the electricity, and electricity extraction side of things.

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Energy Technical Review Data Center Backup 363

Kaseya

DECEMBER 9, 2020

With businesses planning and budgeting for their Information Technology (IT) needs for 2021, deciding on whether to build or expand their own data centers may come into play. There are significant expenses associated with a data center facility, which we’ll discuss below. What Is a Colocation Data Center?

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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. “The NAPU will bring AI for a broader set of less technical companies.

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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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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

We have actively been asking customers to look at other alternatives and do a fair apples-to-apples comparison of the technology differentiators, as well as the total cost of ownership. The comparison to mainframes doesnt extend beyond the stickiness of both technologies, adds A.J. In pretty much every case, we have come out on top.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

The challenge for IT leaders is to enable these high-density workloads with the right IT infrastructure, and increasingly the community is discussing advanced cooling technologies like liquid cooling. The power density requirements for AI and HPC can be 5-10 times higher than other data center use cases.

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Data Center Artificial Inteligence Case Study Sustainability 166

Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 2, 2025

However, the real breakthrough is in the convergence of technologies that are coming together to supercharge 5G business transformation across our most critical infrastructure, industrial businesses and governments. This includes 5G coming of age at the same time as AI, bringing together lightning fast connectivity with intelligence.

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Capgemini

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

IT is shifting from managing data centers to delivering value to the business. Freedom from your data center doesn’t necessarily mean you have to move it to the cloud. Is it to hold workloads in your own data center or utilize a provider’s data center whereby they own and maintain it?

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Data Center Data Technical Review Cloud 98

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In a recent Gartner survey , IT executives cited talent shortages as the top barrier to adopting emerging technologies. MetalSoft allows companies to automate the orchestration of hardware, including switches, servers and storage, making them available to users that can be consumed on-demand.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2024

Articul8 AI will be led by Arun Subramaniyan, formerly vice president and general manager in Intel’s Data Center and AI Group. The new entity will use an Intel generative AI system that can read text and images using a combination of open-source and in-house technology.

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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. The acquisition is important because AI’s growing demands need large clusters of connected chips for processing power.

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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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Data Center Trends Hardware Cloud 216

CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

These priorities are concretely influencing IT buying decisions: According to a global survey by Enterprise Strategy Group, 98% of IT decision-makers report that IT suppliers’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs influence their IT purchasing decisions, and 85% have eliminated a potential technology supplier due to ESG concerns. [1]

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Sustainability Data Center Technical Review Energy 190

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

One of the top problems facing device manufacturers today is overheating hardware. Seshu Madhavapeddy and Surya Ganti hope to present a third option with hardware they’ve developed at their four-year-old startup, Frore Systems. AirJet, which sits above the hardware it’s meant to cool, is 2.8

Hardware 209

Hardware Mobile Performance System 209

CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

Do you have the data center and data science skill sets?” Seeking to increase the productivity of chronically understaffed radiology teams, Mozziyar Etemadi, medical director of advanced technologies at Northwestern Medicine undertook a genAI project designed to speed the interpretation of X-ray images.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2023

It’s no wonder that–per a recent study commissioned by Dell Technologies, Intel and NVIDIA–HPC operators have elevated the importance of sustainability to the number two priority, even surpassing price. Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, and Intel are supporting these organizational efforts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Marvell president and CEO Matt Murphy sees Innovium as a complementary piece to the $10 billion Inphi acquisition last year, giving the company, which makes copper-based chips, more ways to work across modern cloud data centers. 2021 will be a calmer year for semiconductors and chips (except for Intel).

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OTS Solutions

DECEMBER 5, 2019

There is also Platform as a Service (Paas), which provides the infrastructure for virtual business application development, that is to say, offering the hardware and software infrastructure. Having said that, it’s still recommended that enterprises store and access truly confidential and sensitive data on a private cloud.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

The company raised $26 million in Series B funding, Zededa today announced, contributed by a range of investors including Coast Range Capital, Lux Capital, Energize Ventures, Almaz Capital, Porsche Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, Juniper Networks, Rockwell Automation, Samsung Next and EDF North America Ventures. Image Credits: Zededa.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Increasingly, as Moore’s law rears its ugly head, computer chip developers are adopting “chiplet” architectures to scale their hardware’s processing power. Farjadrad says the technology has been under development since 2017; he co-started Aquantia and served as the startup’s chief engineer for nearly 15 years.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

It doesn’t involve building its own data centers, at least not yet, but it does require installing hardware in different co-location facilities around the world. “So So we deploy our own hardware. In fact, he sees this as an operational problem, rather than a financial one, getting enough money to finance the hardware. “We

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

Decision makers are realizing that technology is essential for reaching their ESG goals,” noted Bjoern Stengel, IDC global sustainability research lead, in the report. You need engineers and technology team members passionate about innovation and change,” he says. Let them do the job of efficiently running data centers.”

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