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 4, 2024

Historically, data center virtualization pioneer VMware was seen as a technology leader, but recent business changes have stirred consternation since its acquisition by Broadcom in late 2023.

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CIO

JULY 12, 2024

Good coding practices for performance and efficiency have been part of software engineering since the earliest days. Computers that piggyback on vast libraries with extraneous lines of code, developers who have lost count of the number of virtual machines they have spun off — all add drag and increase the carbon emissions related to software.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

Klein predicted that within the next two years, SAP software users will no longer be manually entering data, and all tasks will be processed with natural language commands, and companies that have adopted Joule will see a minimum 30% to 40% increase in productivity.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

We did a really hard pivot in January and started training this family for reasoning and were really excited about the results, said Kari Briski, vice president of AI product software management at Nvidia. Ultra microservices are for multi-GPU servers and data-center-scale applications.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Outsourcing engineering has become more common in recent years, so we’re starting a new initiative to profile the software consultants who startups love to work with the most. ” The software development agency has worked on more than 350 digital products since its founding in 2009, for startups of all sizes.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

(tied) Crusoe Energy Systems , $500M, energy: Back in 2022, the Denver-based company was helping power Bitcoin mining by harnessing natural gas that is typically burned during oil extraction and putting it toward powering the data centers needed for mining — raising a $350 million Series C equity round led by G2 Venture Partners , at $1.75

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

That’s according to Said Ouissal, the CEO of Zededa , which provides distributed edge orchestration and virtualization software. Zededa’s software-as-a-service product, with works with devices from brands like SuperMicro, monitors edge installations to ensure they’re working as intended.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Back in 2022, the Denver-based company was helping power Bitcoin mining by harnessing natural gas that is typically burned during oil extraction and putting it toward powering the data centers needed for mining — raising a $350 million Series C equity round led by G2 Venture Partners , at a $1.75 billion valuation in the process.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In addition to Dell Technologies’ compute, storage, client device, software, and service capabilities, NVIDIA’s advanced AI infrastructure and software suite can help organizations bolster their AI-powered use cases, with these powered by a high-speed networking fabric.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you sell cars, candy, consulting, or construction, software is moving to the center of your business. Your products and services rely on software and data for nearly everything from product development to aftermarket support. You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In the early 2000s, most business-critical software was hosted on privately run data centers. DevOps fueled this shift to the cloud, as it gave decision-makers a sense of control over business-critical applications hosted outside their own data centers.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

For many CIOs, preparing their data for even one AI project is a tall order. As they embark on their AI journey, many people have discovered their data is garbage, says Eric Helmer, chief technology officer for software support company Rimini Street. They arent sure where it is among hundreds of different systems in some cases.

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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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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When organizations buy a shiny new piece of software, attention is typically focused on the benefits: streamlined business processes, improved productivity, automation, better security, faster time-to-market, digital transformation. A full-blown TCO analysis can be complicated and time consuming.

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CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This involves the prosaic but essential activities of good information management: data cleaning, deduplicating, validating, structuring, and checking ownership. However, this will depend on the speed at which new AI-ready data centers are built relative to demand.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Versa provides a vast range of subscription-based software services — too many to list here — but positions itself primarily as a secure access service edge (SASE) provider. As described by Gartner in 2019, SASE combines software-based wide area networking and security principles like zero trust into a single service model.

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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. That had led to the use of many cloud platforms, many data centers,” Ranganathan explained. Image Credits: Opsera.

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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. Other pure-software providers will build all the stuff on top of it. Databases, running code, you name it. What about lock-in?

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2025

But now that about half of enterprises have workloads in the public cloud, moving applications and data from on-prem server rooms or private data centers into a public cloud environment is no longer the crux of many cloud migration strategies. Unfortunately, theres not.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Data centers with servers attached to solid-state drives (SSDs) can suffer from an imbalance of storage and compute. Either there’s not enough processing power to go around, or physical storage limits get in the way of data transfers, Lightbits Labs CEO Eran Kirzner explains to TechCrunch. ” Image Credits: Lightbits Labs.

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2025

Take advantage of agentic AI From simple tasks such as generating and distributing content, to more complex use cases such as orchestrating enterprise software, AI agents are transforming industries, states Gary Bailey, CIO at Phillips Edison & Co., owner and operator of grocery-anchored neighborhood shopping centers.

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CIO

APRIL 2, 2025

Instead of storing data mechanically on punched cards, they relied on an online dialog via keyboard and screen. SAP R/1 was designed as standard software that could be offered to other companies. This principle was so successful that R/3 almost completely replaced the R/2 software package. This allows for maximum flexibility.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

OVHcloud owns and operates 43 data centers across four continents all connected and backed up by our high-speed, robust network with 100Tbps of capacity and 46 redundant PoPs. Within our data centers are more than 450,000 servers that are relied on by more than 1.6 million customers in more than 140 countries.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

However, with the exception of Cloud Object Storage costs, the prices for IaaS offerings will increase only for international data centers while they remain constant for US customers. There will be no price increase at Chennai, Sydney, Dallas, Washington, and San Jose data centers, the company said.

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CIO

JANUARY 1, 2025

His own buy before build strategy was very different to GECAS, which relied on the back-office infrastructure of parent company GE while running proprietary software on Amazon that was core to its business processes. Already a Microsoft house, with.NET used for inhouse software development, Azure was the chosen destination.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

VMwares virtualization suite before the Broadcom acquisition included not only the vSphere cloud-based server virtualization platform, but also administration tools and several other options, including software-defined storage, disaster recovery, and network security. Broadcoms infrastructure software revenue grew 41% to $5.8

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

” After creating their first prototype, Tael and Vaaderpass realized that it could be used by other development teams, and decided to seek angel funding from investors, like Kiisa, who have experience working with cloud data centers or infrastructure providers. and Indonesian cloud provider IdCloudHost.

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Enterprise infrastructures have expanded far beyond the traditional ones focused on company-owned and -operated data centers. The IT function within organizations has become far more complex in recent years. Indeed says candidates for IT consulting roles should earn a degree from an accredited college or university.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While architectures that focus on throughput make sense in the data center, Deep Vision CTO Hameed argues that this doesn’t necessarily make them a good fit at the edge. 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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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.

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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. NeuReality’s NAPU is essentially a hybrid of multiple types of processors. Image Credits: NeuReality.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Of course this is far from the only play the Blackstone Group has made in the data sector. billion to develop data centers in Spain. In 2023, it partnered with Digital Realty to develop $7 billion in data centers targeting providers of online content, cloud services and artificial intelligence.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company says that atNorth is providing a Tier 3, ISO 27001-certified data center, running NVIDIA A100-powered DGX and HGX systems. The data center offers 80MW of power capacity, which runs entirely on geothermal and hydro energy. we’re all about interoperability.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As its customers, NeuReality is targeting the large cloud providers, but also data center and software solutions providers like WWT to help them provide specific vertical solutions for problems like fraud detection, as well as OEMs and ODMs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Infrastructure as code (IaC) has been gaining wider adoption among DevOps teams in recent years, but the complexities of data center configuration and management continue to create problems — and opportunities. We surveyed top investors in IaC startups to find out more.

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