Hardware & Infrastructure

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    Microsoft, Oracle to add 24 regions to multicloud alliance

    The two providers have opened nine Oracle Database@Azure locations since 2023.

    By • Nov. 20, 2024
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    Federal watchdog flags restrictive licensing practices in cloud

    The U.S. Government Accountability Office uncovered vendor management processes across several federal agencies that led to cost overruns.

    By • Nov. 14, 2024
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    IBM, Cognizant team up to tame rising enterprise cloud bills

    The two companies launched a FinOps Center of Excellence initiative to help ease hybrid and multicloud cost management.

    By • Nov. 8, 2024
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    Cloud consumption surge strains even the largest hyperscalers

    “We have more demand than we could fulfill if we had even more capacity today,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Thursday. “Everyone today has less capacity than they have demand.”

    By • Nov. 5, 2024
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    Microsoft runs into cloud constraints as Azure AI business booms

    Data centers “don’t get built overnight,” CEO Satya Nadella said Wednesday during the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call.

    By • Oct. 31, 2024
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    Google Cloud enjoys an AI-fueled growth spurt in Q3

    The hyperscaler saw cloud revenue grow 35% year over year to $11.4 billion in the third quarter.

    By • Oct. 30, 2024
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    Executives worry over aging IT systems

    Despite ongoing modernization efforts, tech debt is still hindering mission-critical infrastructure, according to Kyndryl.

    By • Oct. 29, 2024
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    IBM leans into software as infrastructure revenue slides

    Since its 2019 acquisition of Red Hat, IBM has moved software closer to the center of its product portfolio.

    By • Oct. 24, 2024
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    IT spend mounts as CIOs build out enterprise AI capacity

    The analyst firm expects tech spending to reach $5.74 trillion next year, driven in part by exponential growth in server sales.

    By • Oct. 23, 2024
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    AI adoption rush puts mainframes back in the spotlight

    Coding assistants are, in turn, helping engineers refactor aging COBOL applications, according to IBM.

    By • Oct. 10, 2024
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    CrowdStrike outage: Fallout and recovery

    How HP dodged the July CrowdStrike outage

    After catching early signs of the problem, the company used its IT management tool to install a remediating patch in its global fleet of 79,000 PCs.

    By • Updated Oct. 14, 2024
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    With AI market headed for trillion-dollar mark, chip shortages loom

    Bain & Company expects AI workloads to grow by as much as 35% each year through 2027, accelerating GPU and upstream component consumption.

    By • Oct. 9, 2024
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    Enterprises cling to mainframe as cloud expands

    Companies that lean on the enterprise workhorse are increasing capacity and purchasing new units, according to ISG research.

    By • Oct. 7, 2024
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    Data center spending skyrockets as cloud building rush accelerates

    Hyperscaler infrastructure investments surged during the first half of the year and are expected to reach $400 billion in 2024, according to Dell’Oro Group research.

    By • Sept. 30, 2024
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    Most mainframe application rewrites fail the first time

    “Almost everyone in the mainframe space recognizes that these are not toy workloads,” Rocket Software executive Phil Buckellew said.

    By • Sept. 24, 2024
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    Broadcom fires back at AT&T in legal battle over VMware support

    The chipmaker said AT&T had time to choose an alternative and was planning to migrate off VMware anyway, according to court documents filed last week.

    By • Sept. 23, 2024
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    AWS sees customers repatriating workloads as cloud wars heat up

    The largest hyperscaler provided U.K. regulators with examples of enterprises moving from cloud to on-prem environments in a July hearing.

    By • Sept. 19, 2024
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    Cloud AI building boom propels server, storage market to record highs

    Hyperscaler hunger for compute capacity drove up prices for non-AI data center components during the second quarter, too, according to a Dell’Oro Group report.

    By • Sept. 18, 2024
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    An unlikely hero is running generative AI workloads: the mainframe

    AI requires quality data and more often than not, the most important enterprise data lives in mainframes, experts said.

    By • Sept. 17, 2024
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    Dell awaits PC refresh cycle, leans on server segment to buoy revenues

    The company sees a bright future in PC sales on the horizon, but not until late in the year, COO Jeffrey Clarke said Tuesday at a Goldman Sachs technology conference.

    By • Sept. 12, 2024
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    AWS plans UK cloud expansion, pours $10B more into AI infrastructure

    Amazon’s cloud division will now invest more than $14 billion in the region through 2028, the company said Wednesday.

    By • Sept. 11, 2024
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    Oracle cements multicloud integration with AWS, Google alliances

    Oracle deployed data services running on OCI servers in AWS and Google Cloud data centers, the company announced Monday.

    By • Sept. 9, 2024
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    VMware raises Broadcom’s software profile, but chips remain core business

    The company expects networking and semiconductor hardware demand to drive AI revenues to $12 billion this year, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said.

    By • Sept. 6, 2024
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    Nvidia sustains triple-digit revenue growth amid AI building boom

    “Data centers worldwide are in full steam to modernize the entire computing stack,” Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday.

    By • Aug. 29, 2024
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    VMware vows to ‘virtualize the entire data center’ with bigger bundle

    The company rolled out its second post-Broadcom private cloud solution Tuesday, touting lower overall cost and security improvements.

    By • Aug. 27, 2024