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AWS plans to outspend Microsoft and Google on on AI infrastructure

Network World

Amazon Web Services (AWS) intends to invest $100 billion in ramping up infrastructure for AI cloud services this year, surpassing the spending plans of rivals Microsoft and Google. And AWS isnt the only cloud service provider that is ramping up its investments into AI-enabled data centers.

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Graviton progress: 50% of new AWS instances run on Amazon custom silicon

Network World

Half of all instances spun up on Amazon Web Services over the past two years used Graviton, Amazons custom silicon built on Arm processor technology, rather than x86 processors. But the challenge of getting Arm into enterprise data centers lies in all the legacy code.

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Top 10 Data Center Stories, September 2013

Data Center Knowledge

Data center expansions by Google, Microsoft and eBay captured the attention of readers in September, along with a cloud outage for Amazon Web Services. Here are the most viewed stories on Data Center Knowledge for September 2013, ranked by page views. Google Has Spent 21 Billion on Data Centers.

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Does Africa Present An Opportunity For The Chinese Clouds?

Forrester IT

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. Microsoft will offer Azure from data centers in Cape Town and Johannesburg later this year, and Amazon recently announced plans to follow suit with an Amazon Web Services […].

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‘An easy button to get off Windows’: Amazon’s new AI moves Microsoft apps to Linux

GeekWire

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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Microsoft and Atom Computing leap ahead on the quantum frontier with logical qubits

GeekWire

Atom Computing is working with Microsoft on fault-tolerant quantum computers. Atom Computing Photo) Microsoft and Atom Computing say they’ve reached a new milestone in their effort to build fault-tolerant quantum computers that can show an advantage over classical computers.

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Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Services

Network World

For admins who are responsible for delivering data services on private cloud, the release said that benefits of the new services include simplified lifecycle management, enhanced security and compliance, experts on-call, and built-in configurations for “high availability, multi data center replication and backup.”

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