Wall Street Rethinking Data Center Hardware
Data Center Knowledge
MARCH 11, 2015
US financial services giants shifting to open hardware approach pioneered by internet giants Read More. Blades Enterprise Featured Open Compute'
Solarflare: Revolutionizing the way enterprises scale, manage and secure data centers
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
Solarflare is a leading provider of application-intelligent networking I/O software and hardware that facilitate the acceleration, monitoring and security of network data. They are a top player in infrastructure including the critically important Data Center so we track them in our Leading Infrastructure Companies category.
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Why Financial Services Firms are Championing Natural Language Processing
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 7, 2022
Chatbots are just one application of natural language processing (NLP), a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that is already having a major impact in financial services, among other industries. . The Financial Services industry is projected to be a major source of this spending. by 2025, according to IDC. NLP will account for $35.1
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NLP Isn’t Enough. Leading Financial Services Companies Are Now Moving to Conversational AI.
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 13, 2022
Today, most banks, insurance companies, and other kinds of financial services firms have deployed natural language processing (NLP) tools to address some of their customer service needs. Financial services firms all over the globe are investing heavily in artificial intelligence (AI). The rise of chatbots… and their weaknesses.
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Adopt AI — and quick! Dell Technologies CEO tells customers
Network World
MAY 21, 2024
This includes everything from devices to data centers and cloud, as well as an open ecosystem of technology partners to create AI applications through a traditional purchase or as a subscription to Dell Apex, its collection of multi-cloud services. “AI AI is transforming business at an unprecedented rate.
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SmartNICs set to infiltrate enterprise networks
Network World
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Enterprise infrastructure that supports data center, cloud and edge networks could someday be dominated by one of its tiniest components--the smartNIC or data processing unit (DPU). NaaS is the future but it's got challenges.
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Capital spending soars in the cloud as Microsoft, Google, and others bet big on AI demand
GeekWire
APRIL 30, 2024
These servers inside a Microsoft data center in Quincy, Wash., Amy Hood, Microsoft’s chief financial officer, told analysts that CapEx will keep growing in the 2025 fiscal year, which starts in July. “They’ve become hardware companies,” Fitzgerald said. Facebook parent Meta reported $6.7
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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 14, 2024
At the center of this shift is increasing acknowledgement that to support AI workloads and to contain costs, enterprises long-term will land on a hybrid mix of public and private cloud. Global spending on enterprise private cloud infrastructure, including hardware, software, and support services, will be $51.8 The Milford, Conn.-based
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Gen AI without the risks
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Here are six tips for developing and deploying AI without huge investments in expert staff or exotic hardware. However, the investment in supercomputing infrastructure, HPC expertise, and data scientists is beyond all but the largest hyperscalers, enterprises, and government agencies. Not at all.
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Google will no longer offer Gemini API for free
Dataconomy
APRIL 23, 2024
The future of this development is still uncertain, yet a clear shift is evident as Google discontinues free access to its Gemini API, marking a strategic pivot in its AI financial approach. The substantial investments into data centers to support AI operations represent a considerable risk, given the absence of established AI revenue models.
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A forensic look into cloud success with Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 26, 2023
If you run your operations the same way as when you operated in data centers, the cloud will be three to five times as expensive.” On FinOps in action: Our on-prem software testing labs were running different operating systems and hardware combinations because every customer is unique. That’s the beauty of the cloud.
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Fountainhead: Real-World Financial Services Cloud
Fountainhead
JUNE 1, 2011
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Real-World Financial Services Cloud. NYSE is no stranger to Financial-Markets levels of reliability, and has clearly taken great pains to ensure that their experience carries-over to the CMCP. Data Center efficiency. (1).
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Kyndryl emphasizes genAI with Nvidia partnership, mainframe modernization tools
Network World
MAY 20, 2024
Kyndryl Bridge integrates disparate management, observability and automation tools while making use of AI and ML to analyze the aggregated data and provide IT operations teams with the intelligence they need to keep systems running at peak performance. The convergence of AI, mainframe and cloud is shaping the evolution of IT.
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How plusserver strengthens cloud capabilities and helps enterprises reduce their carbon footprint
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 18, 2023
With four high-performance data centers, including facilities in Cologne, Dusseldorf and two in Hamburg, plusserver is well known for its ability to address the most demanding data sovereignty needs in Germany and throughout Europe – a fact underscored earlier this year when it earned the VMware Sovereign Cloud distinction.
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Salesforce plans generative AI boost for ESG reporting with Net Zero Cloud
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Net Zero Cloud uses data held within the Salesforce platform to help enterprises report on their carbon footprint and manage other social and governance metrics. Those include using cleaner energy — Salesforce sources 100% clean energy for its global operations, she said — and more efficient hardware in data centers.
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IT spending projected to grow despite economic headwinds
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 18, 2022
The 3% increase in total IT spending represents slower growth than in 2021, as the economy as a whole and the IT sector in particular began to recover from the effects of the pandemic, and growth will largely be driven by cloud services and the data center, Gartner said. Cloud Computing, Data Center, Technology Industry
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Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan on what cloud success really looks like
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 31, 2023
In this interview, Nallappan has much to share on dynamic cloud architecture, cloud cost containment, developing a cloud-conscious culture, and why it makes sense to give engineers financial goals when giving them ownership over their cloud estates. In our hardware business, the COO runs the supply chain. There is no question about it.
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Understanding the importance of low latency for cryptocurrency exchanges
Dataconomy
APRIL 22, 2024
Lower latency means quicker trades, which is particularly critical for high-frequency trading (HFT), where milliseconds can mean financial gain or loss. Software and hardware latency : These delays are caused by the trader’s algorithms and computer systems, respectively.
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4 Tips for Processing Real-Time Data
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 14, 2022
Real-time data processing is an essential capability for nearly every business and organization. It underlies services such as identity management, fraud prevention, financial transactions, recommendation engines, customer relationship management, and social media monitoring. Real-World Results for Real-time Data.
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AI is a gold rush and Nvidia knows where to dig well
Dataconomy
AUGUST 24, 2023
AI gold rush: Nvidia’s shovels and picks reaping billions ( Image credit ) The winds of change are evident as numerous cloud service providers announce their embrace of Nvidia’s H100 AI hardware, a significant shift that underscores the seismic shift toward accelerated computing. Analysts’ expectations, pegged at $11.22
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The AI continuum
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 24, 2024
Retrain and fine-tune an existing model Retraining proprietary or open-source models on specific datasets creates smaller, more refined models that can produce accurate results with lower-cost cloud instances or local hardware. Financially, it was impractical to deploy the model on GPU-based cloud infrastructure. Learn more.
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How the C-Suite Can Champion Sustainability Across the Enterprise
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 29, 2022
Data centers: When considering a move to the cloud , choose a green cloud provider that has a sustainability strategy that reduces the environmental impact of their data centers. Data: Use data to share information around sustainability efforts.
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Customer centricity: How Mashreq Bank is placing its customers at the forefront of its operations.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Our decision to partner with Oracle was driven by its established reputation and expertise in financial technology solutions. Database-level performance issues with legacy hardware are addressed, ensuring optimal performance for critical financial applications.
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Accelerate Sustainable Digital Transformation in the Oil & Gas Industry
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Recent studies indicate that data centers consume one percent of the world’s electricity , and The Royal Society estimates that digital technology contributes up to 5.9% Up to 25% of data center power is consumed by equipment that no longer performs useful work, [i] and only 10-30% of server capacity is used.
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AWS hopes for a savior in AI as revenue growth continues to slow
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 4, 2023
“…while customers have continued to optimize during the second quarter, we’ve started seeing more customers shift their focus toward driving innovation and bringing new workloads to the cloud,” Brian Olsavsky, chief financial officer at Amazon said, according to a Motley Fool transcript.
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Private Clouds eBook
CTOvision
JUNE 12, 2016
Bright Cluster Manager™, Bright Cluster Manager for Big Data™, and Bright OpenStack™ provide a unified, hardware-agnostic approach to installing, provisioning, configuring, managing, and monitoring HPC clusters, big data clusters, and OpenStack clouds.
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Alphabet pins hopes on Google Cloud as ad revenue growth declines
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Alphabet on Tuesday posted lower-than-expected numbers for its third financial quarter, where it fell behind both revenue and profit expectations. Microsoft, which also issued its quarterly financial results on Tuesday, reported 35% growth in Azure and other cloud services, slowing from 50% growth seen in the same quarter last year.
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Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’
GeekWire
MAY 10, 2023
Microsoft needs clean electricity to fuel the operations of its more than 200 energy-hungry data centers internationally. The new reactor will be the same size as Polaris, and include additional hardware and technology for putting energy on the grid. The Redmond, Wash. The Redmond, Wash. gigawatts of power.
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How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race
Vox
MARCH 7, 2024
2006 was the same year Amazon launched its cloud computing business; Nvidia’s push into general computing was coming at a time when massive data centers were popping up around the world. Their competitors were asleep at the wheel,” says Gil Luria, a senior analyst at the financial firm D.A. Davidson Companies.
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Fountainhead
MARCH 18, 2009
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A data center trifecta? Think of this as provisioning hardware using software. While Im not sure what this market segment may eventually be called, it represents the third critical data center managemnet component. #1
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Fountainhead: IT's Blind Spots in the data center
Fountainhead
MARCH 3, 2009
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. ITs Blind Spots in the data center. I arrived at these observations when I speak with data center managers who admit that they dont have solutions to these issues. Data Center efficiency. (1). A data center trifecta?
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The CTO’s newest hat is green
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Data centers run on electricity, which often comes from the burning of fossil fuels. In addition, computing hardware can use non-renewable resources mined from the earth, creating other environmental concerns. Dell Technologies is also working to make its hardware more sustainable. But becoming greener isn’t enough.
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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
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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LEOcloud, Microsoft team up with Axiom Space to put cloud infrastructure in orbit
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Gatens has been working with partners including Ramon.Space on a line of radiation-hardened compute and data storage hardware that’s well-suited for the space environment. “Raw data is generally high-volume data that needs to be refined at a data center, basically,” he explained.
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Dell: Privately owned PC and server maker
CTOvision
AUGUST 16, 2016
We still see Dell frequently in the enterprise IT space and know all technologists have familiarity with what they can do in servers and the data center. One area of particular note is how they are innovating in micro-data centers, including servers in storage containers. More on that later.
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CTOvision
JUNE 27, 2014
They typically struggle with hardware constraints, porting costs and interoperability issues of the ever-growing collection of portable and mobile client devices when delivering enterprise-level applications to employees in the field, or anywhere away from their high-end computers. OnLive CloudLift Enterprise is being launched in the U.S.
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Il grande ritorno del cloud privato. Grazie all’IA
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 22, 2024
La spesa globale per l’infrastruttura cloud privata aziendale, compresi hardware, software e servizi di supporto, sarà di 51,8 miliardi di dollari nel 2024 e crescerà fino a 66,4 miliardi di dollari nel 2027, secondo IDC.
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Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices
SecureWorld News
OCTOBER 10, 2023
However, a disaster resulting in data loss and downtime is a common threat nowadays. Natural disasters, human error, cyberattacks, and other disruptive events can cause irreparable harm to your organization which can lead to financial loss, reputational damage, or even a complete business shut down.
Teraco and VMware are Taking a New Approach to Support the Efforts of South Africa’s Cloud Innovators in Their Quest to Achieve Zero Carbon Emissions
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Specifically, partners would be required to commit that their data centers achieve zero carbon emissions by 2030, an effort that would require the use of 100% renewable energy. They are also becoming more and more aware that their data center operations are a very large contributor to their overall carbon footprint.
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3 things CIOs must do now to accurately hit net-zero targets
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 5, 2023
Optimize internal technology Today, CIOs can influence everything from hardware procurement and the way developers write code for their company, to how IT gathers, processes, distributes and stores data—all of which impact a company’s carbon footprint.
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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 29, 2024
Tech and tech-adjacent expenditures, including categories like Customer Relationship Management (CRM), cloud and data services, billing, software, network storage, business process outsourcing, telecommunications services, and data center technology, represent significant expenses.
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Why Are More CIOs Keeping Their Data At Home Instead Of In The Cloud?
The Accidental Successful CIO
MAY 11, 2022
As an example, financial companies are looking for PCI-compliant private clouds to handle card transactions and cardholder data; and healthcare companies are asking for HiTrust-certified private clouds. Just because you place your data locally, does not mean that it can’t be accesses by applications running in the public cloud.
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Fountainhead: The Beginning of the Non-Dedicated Device World?
Fountainhead
JANUARY 10, 2013
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. After all, millions of people own identical hardware/software configurations of iPhones, Android-based phones, tablets, laptops and other devices. Data Center efficiency. (1). IT Financial Management. (4). Data Center Design.
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Intel’s next-gen 7nm chips are delayed until at least 2022
The Verge
JULY 23, 2020
The six-month delay would push that date into at least 2022, if not further, due to what Intel CEO Bob Swan referred to as a “defect mode” in the 7nm process, according to Tom’s Hardware. billion brought in, helped in large part by substantial growth in Intel’s data center and memory solutions divisions. billion in revenue.
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