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Questions arise about reasons why Microsoft has cancelled data center lease plans

Network World

A report by TD Cowen indicating that Microsoft is reportedly slowing down or possibly redirecting its data center construction plans is tied to the company potentially being in an oversupply position, analysts with the brokerage say. Over the past four years, he said, Microsoft has been leasing more data centers than owning.

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How Du’s vision for sovereign cloud and AI will transform UAE’s digital governance

CIO Business Intelligence

Du, one of the largest telecommunications operators in the Middle East, is deploying Oracle Alloy to offer cloud and sovereign AI services to business, government, and public sector organizations in the UAE. However, with the rapid adoption of AI and cloud technologies, concerns over security and data privacy are paramount.

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AMD to cut 4% of workforce to prioritize AI chip expansion and rival Nvidia

Network World

In its recent earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su underscored that the data center and AI business is now pivotal to the company’s future, expecting a 98% growth in this segment for 2024. Public cloud providers, including Microsoft and Oracle Cloud, along with several AI startups, also adopted MI300X instances.

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Enterprise spending on cloud services keeps accelerating

Network World

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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5 alternatives to VMware vSphere virtualization platform

Network World

Options include getting off VMs altogether and shifting workloads to the public cloud, or going to a container-based platform like Red Hat OpenShift. Microsoft Azure Stack HCI For Microsoft shops, Azure Stack HCI is an option that leverages the Azure cloud and Microsofts Hyper-V hypervisor.

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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

Network World

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives. Lets talk about risk reduction.

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Oracle bolsters distributed cloud, AI strategy with new Mexico cloud region

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle has partnered with telecommunications service provider Telmex-Triara to open a second region in Mexico in an effort to keep expanding its data center footprint as it eyes more revenue from AI and generative AI-based workloads. billion quarterly in cloud infrastructure.

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