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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

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. You want to run things in the same cloud provider 9 and in the same data center 10. Databases, running code, you name it.

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO

If you look at Amazon’s journey, and the way they run their data centers, they claim to be five times more energy efficient than an average data center.” Choice closed one data center last year and plans to close its second data center in 2023.

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Modernizing on AWS: Strategies, Benefits, and Partnerships with Xebia

Xebia

This may include breaking monolithic applications into microservices, containerizing applications using Docker and Kubernetes, or adopting serverless computing with AWS Lambda. Adoption of Cloud-Native Technologies: Companies embrace cloud-native technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and microservices architecture.

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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

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? But we don't: When I compile code, I want to fire up 1000 serverless container and compile tiny parts of my code in parallel. The genesis. Today, that number is closer to 350: 1.

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How Serverless Is Impacting the IT Landscape

DevOps.com

The post How Serverless Is Impacting the IT Landscape appeared first on DevOps.com. While the average consumer or office worker doesn’t consider the economic or environmental impact they have, IT and C-Suite teams are awakening to the problem and […].

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO

If you’re in the business of data centers or perhaps have a heavy research and development arm, you might be able to do it more cheaply yourself,” says Ciena CIO Craig Williams, who admits this may be an outlier position. “We

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GenAI sticker shock sends CIOs in search of solutions

CIO

For example, CIOs on a budget can reduce generative AI costs by using open-source models, such as OpenAI and Lambda, which can be accessed from various marketplaces and offer several advantages, says Bern Elliott, a distinguished analyst at Gartner.