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Funding for cloud-based generative AI

June 2, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

Even though many IT budgets are down, and belt tightening seems to be the clear trend, next year many enterprises are preparing for a rush to generative AI that they are not ready to pay for. It’s time to start […]


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How the AI boom is transforming engineering at Google Cloud

June 2, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

The focus of Chen Goldberg’s job has shifted in the last six months. As GM and VP of engineering at Google Cloud, Goldberg has a front-row seat to the ongoing rush to deploy large language models and generative AI tools […]


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Top 8 data engineer and data architect certifications

June 1, 2023

Via: CIO

Data analytics is the lifeblood of any successful business. Getting the technology right can be challenging but building the right team with the right skills to undertake data initiatives can be even harder. Successfully deploying big data initiatives requires more […]


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Bringing observability to the modern data stack

June 1, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

You can’t manage what you can’t measure. Just as software engineers need a comprehensive picture of the performance of applications and infrastructure, data engineers need a comprehensive picture of the performance of data systems. In other words, data engineers need […]


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Democratizing HPC with multicloud to accelerate engineering innovations

June 1, 2023

Via: CIO

Today’s research is crucial because it fuels tomorrow’s innovations. Increasingly, the speed and magnitude of innovations rely on technology-powered research and engineering using high performance computing (HPC). That’s why democratizing HPC via the cloud—known as Cloud for HPC—can provide significant […]


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Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan on what cloud success really looks like

May 31, 2023

Via: CIO

Companies moving to the cloud often find themselves at a crossroads near the midpoint of their migrations, spending more than they intended and getting out less than they hoped. Often that’s because their IT organization isn’t equipped with the culture, […]


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Panasas to add S3 support to edge storage and cloud moves

May 31, 2023

Via: Computer Weekly

Panasas’s recent announcement of the addition of an edge platform to its family of scale-out NAS came alongside a planned significant move towards the cloud for the company, with native array S3 support coming later this year. That adds to […]


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Google Cloud can tie together enterprise multicloud resources

May 31, 2023

Via: Network World

Google Cloud has announced services for enterprises to more easily and securely connect distributed multicloud resources. The chief service, Cross-Cloud Interconnect, provides dedicated high-speed connections between the Google network and customer networks hosted in other clouds—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, […]


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Why ‘Data Center vs. Cloud’ Is the Wrong Way to Think

May 30, 2023

Via: Data Center Knowledge

What’s the opposite of a data center? If you answered “the cloud,” as many do, you are arguably not thinking in the most effective way about what data centers do and the role they play within the IT industry. To […]


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Windows 11 cloud backup is getting a whole lot better at last

May 30, 2023

Via: TechRadar

Microsoft has announced details of an extended and much-improved backup experience coming to Windows 11 designed to make transitioning between existing and new devices much smoother. A designated Windows Backup app is set to be users’ main interface for creating […]


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5 Considerations for Migrating Data to the Cloud

May 25, 2023

Via: Data Center Knowledge

Discussions of cloud migration tend to focus mostly on how to redesign applications to take full advantage of cloud services, then move the applications into the cloud. A topic that receives less attention is how to migrate data into the […]


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Nvidia gears up for AI-fueled data center boom

May 25, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

Data centers have traditionally relied on central processing units to perform general-purpose computations. But generative AI models require more computing power. This can be achieved with graphics processing units and tensor processing units. “Anytime you need large compute or advanced […]


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Snowflake feels the pinch of tightened cloud spend

May 25, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

While the data cloud company’s software are platform agnostic, its data storage and analytics solutions depend on cloud, a category of enterprise IT spend that came under greater scrutiny as rising inflation and interest rate hikes shook confidence in the […]


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Snowflake acquires Neeva to add generative AI-based search to Data Cloud

May 24, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

Cloud-based data warehouse company Snowflake on Wednesday said that it was acquiring Neeva, a startup based in Mountain View, California, for an undisclosed sum in an effort to add generative AI-based search to its Data Cloud platform. “Snowflake is acquiring […]


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Bare metal compute: Optionality gold for your multicloud-by-design strategy

May 24, 2023

Via: CIO

If there is one thing developers prize above all else today, it’s the option to run the applications they want where they want, when they want. This is critical in a world increasingly given to distributed computing, where applications run […]


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Cloud is so endemic, CIOs only mention it in passing

May 24, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

When Wells Fargo announced a deal with Microsoft and Google Cloud to support a decade-long modernization marathon in 2021, it was news. A major financial services company had opted in on hybrid multicloud. Two years later, the trend has become […]


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Cloud-based IT operations are on the rise

May 23, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

The people who maintain traditional data center systems have always objected to having IT assets managed by systems outside their firewalls. Years ago, when I predicted that this would happen, people would often laugh and not believe me. The signs […]


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At Microsoft Build 2023, Azure Cosmos DB joins the AI toolchain

May 23, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella described the arrival of large language AI models like GPT-4 as “a Mosaic moment,” comparable to the arrival of the first graphical web browser. Unlike that original Mosaic moment, when Microsoft was late to the browser […]


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Modernizing your approach to data can reap big rewards. Here’s how.

May 22, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

Today companies collect vast amounts of data, whether it’s from business systems, cameras, kiosks, robotics or frontline devices—but most organizations are not putting that data to good use. Some are holding petabytes of information and find the sheer volume overwhelming. […]


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KAN: A Kubernetes edge environment for computer vision

May 22, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

Computer vision is an increasingly important industrial technology, not only for managing product lines or stock control, but also for safety. It’s a powerful technology, able to quickly classify objects and identify anomalies. But there’s a problem that comes with […]