Cloud Giants Disagree on the Future of Corporate Data Centers
Data Center Knowledge
APRIL 28, 2017
Google, Microsoft paint contrasting pictures of enterprise data centers’ relationship with cloud Read More.
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Does Africa Present An Opportunity For The Chinese Clouds?
Forrester IT
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
Africa is home to 20% of our planet’s land and 16% of its people, but none of the hyperscale public clouds run from data centers there — yet.
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Meet Microsoft, the New Face of Open Source Data Center Hardware
Data Center Knowledge
MARCH 15, 2017
If you’re running a cloud platform at Microsoft’s scale (30-plus regions around the world, with multiple data centers per region) and you want it to run on the best data center hardware, you typically design it yourself. But what if there are ideas out there — outside of your company’s…
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Reports: VMware, AWS Join Forces in Battle for Enterprise Cloud Market
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 6, 2016
Given their respective dominance in enterprise data center software and cloud, the deal would give Microsoft and Google much to think about. Read More.
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Microsoft pulls underwater data center back to the surface to assess benefits of deep-sea cloud
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Members of the Project Natick team power wash algae, barnacles and sea anemones off the Northern Isles underwater data center, which was retrieved from the seafloor off the Orkney Islands in Scotland. Microsoft Photo / Jonathan Banks). Microsoft Photo / Jonathan Banks).
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Top 5 fastest-growing cities for data centers
Network World
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
The five fastest-growing hubs for data center expansion include an interesting mix of urban areas that have one thing in common: lots of available power. Based on projected data-center capacity growth, Las Vegas/Reno is the No. Based on projected data-center capacity growth, Las Vegas/Reno is the No.
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Microsoft will invest $80B in AI data centers in fiscal 2025
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 6, 2025
Microsoft is on track to invest around $80 billion this fiscal year to build out AI-enabled data centers, company president Brad Smith said Friday.
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Enterprise spending on cloud services keeps accelerating
Network World
AUGUST 14, 2024
The cloud market continues to grow at an accelerated rate, defying the economic pressures that are stifling the rest of the industry. Spending on cloud services is in turn driving massive investment in equipment , which is good for the IT vendors because the on-premises data center market is largely flat.
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Nokia expands data center SONiC support
Network World
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Nokia is offering customers an alternative way to set up data center networks by expanding its data center fabric package to support the open-source Software for Open Networking in the Cloud ( SONiC ). The SONiC community has grown significantly since and now features some 4,000 contributors and 28 paying members.
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Understanding Cloud Computing for Your Business
CTOvision
MARCH 13, 2017
Over the last decade, cloud computing has gone from being a buzzword to an essential component of web technology. Businesses, enticed away from traditional data center models by lower upfront capital costs and simpler solutions to scaling and reliability issues, have been adopting cloud technology in droves.
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With Microsoft Data Center Deal, EdgeConneX Takes on Wholesale Giants
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Multiple ongoing mega-scale builds in the US and Europe indicate that the company is looking beyond its initial edge-focused strategy. Read More.
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Microsoft makes hydrogen fuel cell breakthrough in quest to power data centers with renewable energy
GeekWire
JULY 27, 2020
Power Innovations built a 250-kilowatt fuel cell system to help Microsoft explore the potential of using a hydrogen fuel cells for backup power generation at data centers. Microsoft conducted the proof-of-concept at a data center near Salt Lake City, Utah. Power Innovations Photo).
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Microsoft tries to whittle down its carbon footprint by building data centers with engineered timber
GeekWire
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Rendering of a data center that Microsoft is building using cross-laminated timber for its floors and ceilings in order to reduce the amount of steel and concrete used, which have a bigger carbon impact. These sheets of cross-laminated timber will be used in the construction of two Microsoft data centers.
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Data Center Knowledge
JUNE 13, 2017
The once notoriously anti-open source company has realized it's making tons of money in the cloud thanks to open source software. Read More.
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Microsoft shares new data center design featuring a closed-loop water system for cooling
GeekWire
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Illustration of the Microsoft’s closed-loop system for future data centers that will recycle water for cooling its computing operations. Microsoft Image) Microsoft revealed details of new approach to cooling data centers that won’t lose water to evaporation. Pleasant, Wis.
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Microsoft partners with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service for Azure Space cloud platform
GeekWire
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Microsoft is partnering with a wide range of satellite and space companies to build its Azure Space cloud computing service. Microsoft Illustration). Microsoft says it’s taking the next giant leap in cloud computing, in partnership with SpaceX and its Starlink broadband satellite constellation.
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Backup lessons learned from 10 major cloud outages
Network World
JUNE 12, 2024
Whether it’s in your data center, an IaaS vendor like AWS, or a SaaS vendor like Microsoft 365, it needs independent backup. However, some people believe we should trust the cloud vendors to do the right thing. Fifteen years of cloud data-loss incidents gives a pretty good idea of how bad a cloud outage can be.
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Microsoft Build 2024: Cloud infra updates include Cobalt 100-based VMs, access to Copilot in Azure
Network World
MAY 21, 2024
At its Build 2024 event in Seattle this week, Microsoft released updates to its cloud infrastructure to bolster support for all workloads, including AI-related ones. The updates includes new Azure virtual machines (VM), a new provisioning service, and options for enabling access to Microsoft Copilot in Azure.
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Azure Orbital launches Microsoft into a cloud computing space race with Amazon
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
The world’s largest and most northerly commercial satellite ground station, KSAT’s Svalbard Station in Norway’s Arctic archipelago, will be part of Microsoft’s Azure Orbital network. ” Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. Microsoft Graphic). KSAT Photo).
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Amazon confirms abrupt departure of AWS data center chief Chris Vonderhaar
GeekWire
MAY 30, 2023
GeekWire File Photo The Amazon Web Services executive who oversaw the cloud giant’s massive network of data centers is suddenly gone, without explanation. Amazon confirmed the departure of Chris Vonderhaar, who had been at the company for nearly 13 years, in response to a GeekWire inquiry on Tuesday.
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Microsoft invests €3.2 billion in AI and the cloud in Germany
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Microsoft will invest €3.2 billion in Germany by the end of 2025 to double the artificial intelligence and cloud capacities of its data centers there. While Germany is number two in the use and development of AI, it only ranks 11th in Europe when it comes to AI skills, according to the Microsoft President.
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Lumen Orbit wants to deploy data centers in space
Network World
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Today’s data centers have a multitude of well-known issues: They gobble up massive amounts of energy and space, are costly, and struggle to meet the intense resource demands of next-gen artificial intelligence (AI). But Nvidia and Y Combinator-backed Lumen Orbit has a novel, out-of-this-world idea: Launching data centers into space.
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Data centers are now critical national infrastructure, says UK government
Network World
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
The UK government added data centers to its list of protected critical national infrastructure (CNI) on Thursday, the first change to its CNI list since 2015, when it added the space and defense sectors. Earlier this week, Amazon made a major investment in UK data centers. “In
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Larry Ellison makes first-ever visit to Redmond to announce Oracle databases in Microsoft cloud
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, and Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison on a live stream from Redmond, announcing plans to expand their partnership with a new service called Oracle Database@Azure. where Microsoft is based, which speaks in part to fierce nature of the longtime rivalry between the companies.
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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., were the first to be powered by the company’s Azure Cobalt 100 CPU, as part of a broader cloud infrastructure buildout. Microsoft’s capital expenditures rose 79% to a record $14 billion in the March quarter. Facebook parent Meta reported $6.7
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Microsoft Azure Cheat Sheet: Key Services & Commands Guide
Tech Republic Data Center
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
This comprehensive guide about Microsoft Azure includes common use cases, technical limitations, and what to know before adopting the cloud computing platform.
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Microsoft’s carbon footprint keeps growing as AI drives data center expansions
GeekWire
MAY 15, 2024
Microsoft’s Thermal Energy Center at its Redmond, Wash. The center taps geothermal energy from the earth to provide clean power. Microsoft Photo) In 2020 , Microsoft made an ambitious commitment to make its operations carbon negative within a decade, removing more carbon from the environment than it emits each year.
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What enterprises say the CrowdStrike outage really teaches
Network World
AUGUST 13, 2024
We’ve been told that enterprises are rethinking their cloud strategy. Only 21 of the enterprises I contacted thought Microsoft was even a contributor, and none thought Microsoft was primarily to blame. Misjudging cloud’s impact on application reliability But what does this all mean with regard to things like cloud usage?
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Microsoft Azure: Boosting machine learning and virtual desktops with GPUs
Tech Republic Data Center
MAY 21, 2020
Nvidia graphics processors are now part of Microsoft's hybrid cloud platform, in your data centre and on the edge of your network.
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As AI booms, here’s how Microsoft and Amazon are coming up with energy solutions
GeekWire
JANUARY 10, 2025
An Amazon data center in Oregon. AWS Photo) Artificial intelligence and the data centers that drive the technology are booming with no end in sight. A new Department of Energy report tracking data center power use found that it increased 7% from 2014 to 2018 and then jumped 18% between 2018 and 2023.
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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper.
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Google bets on nuclear power to drive AI expansion
Network World
OCTOBER 15, 2024
In March, Amazon acquired a nuclear-powered data center from Talen Energy. Last month, Microsoft and Constellation Energy agreed to revive a unit at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island plant, the site of the worst US nuclear accident. Most recently Microsoft wound down an attempt to create underwater data centers.
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AWS cloud to rain another £8 billion in the UK for local cloud infrastructure
Network World
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
As demand for cloud access soars, AWS announced Tuesday that it would spend £8 billion (about US$10.4 billion) over the next five years in UK data centers. This appears to put AWS at roughly the same UK investment level as rivals Microsoft and Google. The UK needs a lot more cloud resources,” Nag said.
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‘An easy button to get off Windows’: Amazon’s new AI moves Microsoft apps to Linux
GeekWire
DECEMBER 3, 2024
(GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) LAS VEGAS — Amazon has a new use for AI: dumping Microsoft Windows. The move could boost Amazon’s cloud business by reducing a major hurdle for customers to move away from data centers and servers running on Microsoft’s operating system.
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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 5, 2024
billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. Amazon — alongside its US-based cloud competitors Google and Microsoft — acted quickly to set up regional headquarters in Saudi Arabia. Microsoft already has said it would invest $2.1
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Phaidra raises $12M for AI software that helps manage data center energy consumption
GeekWire
JULY 2, 2024
Its technology helps facilities such as data centers improve energy efficiency by using an array of sensors that measure various metrics, and then analyzing that information with software. The rapid growth of AI is driving new demand for cloud computing infrastructure, which requires substantial energy.
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Cloud infrastructure sales rise as Microsoft closes in on AWS
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 2, 2022
Fueled by enterprise demand for data analytics , machine learning , data center consolidation and cloud-native app developmen t, spending on cloud infrastructure services jumped 33% year on year to $62.3 Cloud providers build out infrastructure. billion in the second quarter, according to Canalys.
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Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud
GeekWire
JULY 12, 2023
Chris Vonderhaar, former Amazon Web Services data center leader, will serve as Google Cloud’s vice president of demand and supply management. LinkedIn Photo) Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.
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Oracle expands cloud footprint with a second region in Chile
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Oracle on Wednesday said it is opening a second cloud region in Chile as part of ongoing efforts to expand its global cloud footprint to compete with the larger rivals including AWS, Microsoft, and Google. In contrast, Google has two cloud regions in South America — Santiago, Chile, and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Price shock: IBM to increase cloud costs by up to 26% from 2024
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
IBM is all set to increase its cloud services costs by up to 26% from January 2024. IBM PaaS services — slated for a 3% price hike globally — include IBM’s Kubernetes Services, RedHat OpenShift, all security services, and all cloud database offerings including Message Hub, Cloudant, and SQL query services. Cloud Computing, IBM
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EU industry group has its eye on Microsoft’s cloud business
Network World
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Microsoft’s cloud business is under surveillance in Europe: The association of Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has set up new monitoring body to ensure the tech giant complies with a legal settlement to keep cloud licensing practices fair in the region.
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AWS Custom Silicon Chips Range a Sign of What’s Coming to APAC Cloud Computing
Tech Republic Data Center
JUNE 7, 2024
Rampant demand for AI computing is driving cloud providers like Microsoft, Google and AWS to build custom silicon chips. Soon, APAC customers will have more choice based on use case and cost.
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Arista embraces segmentation as part of its zero-trust security
Network World
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Arista has expanded its security software to let customers control authorized network access and communication between groups from the data center to the cloud. Additionally, the company’s MSS Host focuses on data-center security policies. See how AI can boost data-center availability and efficiency.
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