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    Nvidia unveils new chip as the AI processor war heats up

    CEO Jensen Huang laid out a roadmap for the company’s next generation GPUs Sunday. Chipmakers AMD and Intel are racing to keep pace.

    By June 3, 2024
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    Enterprises will go all-in on AI PCs by 2026, Gartner predicts

    AI chip revenue is already on the rise ahead of the computing shift and will grow 33% year over year in 2024, according to the firm.

    By May 29, 2024
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    Nvidia CEO promises to deliver ‘a mound of chips’ as AI development speeds ahead

    Cloud providers are “consuming every single chip that’s out there,” Jensen Huang said Wednesday. “We’re racing every single day.”

    By May 23, 2024
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    Out with the old: Why it’s time to upgrade legacy network monitoring to modern observability

    The recently released EMA Network Megatrends 2024 Report highlights that the biggest challenges that network operations face are a shortage of skilled personnel, insufficient budget, and tool fragmentation.

    May 13, 2024
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    Enterprises outsource data storage as complexity rises

    An overload of operations data, ongoing business growth and expanding web analytics are pushing data estates to their limit, according to a Forrester report.

    By May 10, 2024
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    IT services spend will reach $2 trillion by 2028: Forrester

    Tepid growth this year will give way to a landslide of cloud infrastructure spending driven by AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud, the analyst firm said.

    By May 7, 2024
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    Retail banking turns to core modernization as cloud strategies mature

    Legacy systems rife with technical debt are blocking customer service upgrades in the industry, according to IT consulting firm Endava.

    By May 1, 2024
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    Wing: The golden path to liberating developers and platform teams

    We need to create a golden path to production that includes much less friction for companies looking to build in the cloud.

    April 29, 2024
  • Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the Google I/O developers conference at Shoreline Amphitheatre on May 10, 2023 in Mountain View, California.
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    Google Cloud revenue soars as AI drives billions in infrastructure spend

    The tech giant reported $9.6 billion in cloud segment revenue on the quarter, a 28% increase year over year.

    By April 26, 2024
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    IBM deepens multicloud solution portfolio with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition

    “CIOs and developers are up against dramatic complexity in their tech strategies,” IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna said Wednesday.

    By April 25, 2024
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    AI is a power-hungry beast: Who’s responsible for taming its energy appetite?

    Sourcing the power to feed large language models is a growing concern as AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud embark on a data center building boom.

    By April 22, 2024
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    Gartner spots data center ‘gold rush’ as global IT spend forecast hits new high

    IT service providers are investing heavily in semiconductors and servers to support large-scale projects and provide infrastructure support for AI's capacity demands.

    By April 17, 2024
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    As mainframes turn 60, skill gaps threaten the enterprise workhorse

    “Great technology doesn't really go away — it finds the niche that it was made for,” Forrester Senior Analyst Brent Ellis said.

    By Updated April 12, 2024
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    Hyperscaler data center expansions ignite AI server market boom

    As LLM technologies proliferated, GPUs surpassed CPUs in revenue for the first time last year, according to Dell’Oro research.

    By March 28, 2024
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    Nvidia lures all 4 major cloud hyperscalers with Blackwell ‘superchip’

    AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Oracle will embed the chipmaker’s new GPU processors, which experts say is critical for AI infrastructure

    By March 20, 2024
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    Microsoft joins AWS, Google Cloud on path to free data egress

    Azure is the latest platform to lower the cost of switching cloud vendors.

    By March 14, 2024
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    Oracle surpasses major cloud threshold, pours $10B into data center expansions

    “This quarter marks the first time our total cloud revenue is more than our total license support revenue," CEO Safra Catz said. "We have crossed over."

    By March 12, 2024
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    Costs, not security, worry enterprise leaders most as cloud estates multiply

    Optimizing spend surpassed security among enterprise concerns, Flexera’s annual survey found.

    By March 12, 2024
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    Nvidia, HP give data science a GPU boost

    The two tech companies will infuse enterprise AI workstations with GPU-powered data processing and model building software.

    By March 8, 2024
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    Legacy tech is still popping up as a cost-control barrier

    Flagging infrastructure blocks companies from quickly adapting to shifting business conditions, a Deloitte report found.

    By March 5, 2024
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    Dell says on-prem is the future of AI

    “AI tracks to where the data is created, which is on-prem or out at the edge of the network," said COO Jeff Clarke.

    By March 1, 2024
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    Kubernetes cloud costs spike as overprovisioning persists

    Despite optimization efforts, enterprises regularly buy more compute than needed to run containerized workloads, according to a Cast AI analysis.

    By Feb. 28, 2024
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    Nvidia ramps up GPU production to fuel AI data center revolution

    The chipmaker expects demand to outpace supply through the year. “We’ll do our best,” CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday.

    By Feb. 22, 2024
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    Why enterprises neglect billions in cloud savings

    ProsperOps analyzed $1.5 billion in AWS compute spend and found that most organizations fail to take advantage of built-in discounts.

    By Feb. 20, 2024
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    Nvidia pilots Chat with RTX demo in conversational AI push

    The company aims to entice security-conscious enterprises by processing sensitive data without sharing it with a third party.

    By Feb. 13, 2024