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Microsoft to launch zero water consumption cooling for future data centers

Network World

Microsoft has introduced a new design for data centers to optimize artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, implementing a cooling system that it claims will consume zero water. Traditionally in Microsoft data centers, water has been evaporated on-site to reduce the power demand of the cooling systems. Many also use air cooling systems.

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No support or updates for Windows 11 on machines not meeting minimum hardware requirements, says Microsoft

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft has offered a miniscule concession to users determined to install Windows 11 on PCs that dont meet its minimum hardware requirements: you will be able to do it, but on your own head be it should things go wrong.

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5 alternatives to VMware vSphere virtualization platform

Network World

In alphabetical order, they are: Hive, Microsoft, Nutanix, Scale and VergeIO. Microsoft Azure Stack HCI For Microsoft shops, Azure Stack HCI is an option that leverages the Azure cloud and Microsofts Hyper-V hypervisor. Heres a brief synopsis of each one: 1. Read more: Cisco, Nutanix strengthen joint HCI package ) 4.

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Amazon claims to cut quantum computing timeline by 5 years with new Ocelot chip

Network World

We believe this will accelerate our timeline to a practical quantum computer by up to five years, says Oskar Painter, AWS director of Quantum Hardware, in a blog post released today. It will likely be beside other quantum hardware offerings, much like in EC2 where AWSs Graviton chips are offered alongside NVIDIA and other instances, he said.

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Dell adds to PowerEdge server lineup

Network World

Dell Technologies introduced new hardware products and services at two separate conferences, the Supercomputing 24 show in Atlanta and Microsoft’s Ignite conference. The two companies are working on integrating Nvidia software with Dell hardware infrastructure.

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How Microsoft is using hardware to secure firmware

Tech Republic Security

Even full disk encryption can't keep you secure if your PC firmware is compromised, so Secured-core PCs will use the CPU to check if UEFI is telling the truth about secure boot.

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

Network World

Su attributed the recent revenue gains to orders from clients like Microsoft and Meta, with the latter now adopting AMD’s MI300X GPUs for internal workloads. Major clients like Microsoft and Meta too expanded their use of MI300X GPUs , with Microsoft using them for Copilot services and Meta deploying them for Llama models.