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Auvik bets agentic AI can fill the networking skills gap
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (461+ words) IT teams managing multi-vendor networks are dealing with a growing volume of alerts and a shrinking pool of engineers with the expertise to act on them. AI, and more specifically agentic AI, is increasingly being positioned as the approach to…...
SUSE bets automated migration can break VMware's grip on virtualization
4+ week, 1+ day ago (854+ words) SUSE is targeting enterprises weighing their VMware options with a new partnership that promises zero-downtime, automated migrations at scale. The open-source infrastructure company has announced a partnership with Cloudbase Solutions to integrate the Coriolis migration tool into its SUSE Virtualization…...
Amazon's $5 B Anthropic bet is really about compute, not just cash
1+ week, 1+ day ago (642+ words) Amazon on Monday said it was investing an additional $5 billion in Anthropic, a move that analysts say is aimed as much at easing the AI startup's growing infrastructure bottlenecks as at deepening their strategic partnership. As part of the deal,…...
IBM pushes sovereign computing with a software stack that works across cloud platforms
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (604+ words) IBM has launched Sovereign Core, a software stack that aims to offer enterprises and governments full operational control over sovereign cloud deployments without relying on hyperscaler-managed regions. Sovereign deployments, typically, try to combine cloud benefits with strategic autonomy. They are…...
Open AI launches stateful AI on AWS, signaling a control plane power shift
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (1047+ words) Stateless AI, in which a model offers one-off answers without context from previous sessions, can be helpful in the short-term but lacking for more complex, multi-step scenarios. To overcome these limitations, Open AI is introducing what it is calling, naturally,…...
Amazon waives entire month's AWS charges after Iranian drone attack
1+ week, 5+ day ago (612+ words) In a highly unusual move, Amazon has confirmed that it is waiving an entire month's usage charges for customers using two Middle Eastern datacenters disrupted by Iranian drone attacks earlier this month. The attacks on March 1 damaged two Amazon datacenters…...
Amazon Middle East datacenter suffers second drone hit as Iran steps up attacks
3+ week, 5+ day ago (560+ words) Iranian drones have targeted Amazon's largest Middle East datacenter in Bahrain for the second time in a month in part of what appears to be a planned strategy to disrupt the region's digital economy. According to press reports, the ME-SOUTH…...
Intel sets sights on data center GPUs amid AI-driven infrastructure shifts
2+ week, 1+ day ago (675+ words) Intel is making a new push into GPUs, this time with a focus on data center workloads, as the chipmaker looks to reestablish itself in a market increasingly shaped by AI-driven demand and dominated by Nvidia. CEO Lip-Bu Tan said…...
Neoclouds gain momentum in a supply-constrained world
2+ week, 6+ day ago (310+ words) Neoclouds are starting to gain significant market share, some of the coming at the expense of traditional data center infrastructure providers. They tend to fall into two categories: relatively new startups, or crypto mining firms that are transitioning to being…...
AI demand is so high, AWS customers are trying to buy out its entire capacity
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1189+ words) The Amazon Web Services (AWS) chip business is "on fire," Trainium offers better price-performance than Nvidia, and customers are so eager for AI compute capacity that they're looking to buy up all that's currently available. These are the takeaways shared…...