DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Infrastructure Management, Georgia Butler, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Nscale targets $3bn raise in US IPO - report
IPO could take place as soon as September
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Google secures nearly $32bn in debt following major data center capex commitment
Parent company Alphabet announces series of bond offerings, including a century bond
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Russian delivery company CDEK migrates data center hardware by plane
Company migrated 400 interconnected systems 3,000km
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Switch deploys Oxide racks in data centers for internally-used cloud platform
Teams up with Oxide Computer Company and SUSE for private on-prem cloud
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Alaska Airlines conducting widescale IT review after second IT outage in three months
Some 400 flights canceled
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Oracle and Google expand multicloud offering
Add new regions, bring availability to company partners, and plan new service
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MoirAI Cloud secures $1m in pre-seed funding
Claims its AI cloud software can reduce data center energy waste by 95 percent
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AWS launches S3 storage classes for Dedicated Local Zones
S3 storage now available at the Edge, company also launches new S3 capabilities during Re:Invent
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Oracle Database@AWS now available in limited preview
Companies start with AWS US East Region
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DigitalOcean launches Bare Metal GPUs
Single tenant infrastructure for AI and ML workloads now available
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RWE selects HPE Private Cloud AI for weather modeling
Company will use HPE's AI cloud for weather data insights
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Aussie gov't agencies to bring AU$49m of IT services back in house
Move to reduce reliance on contractors
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37signals claims it saved almost $2m last year from cloud repatriation
Says it will exit AWS file storage next year
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Google tests robots for managing data center hard drives and equipment
Specifically interested in using robotics for GPU racks
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Gaia-X and NTT Data deploy Digital Clearing House in Japan
Extends Gaia-X's reach outside of Europe
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Nokia to develop networking backbone for CoreWeave's AI cloud
Company also launches data center automation platform
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CoreWeave partners with Run:ai on AI inference and training
Uses Run:ai platform and CoreWeave infrastructure
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Warburg Pincus acquires data center service company Service Express
Value of deal not shared
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NTT Data selected as prime contractor for FBI's Mission Critical Services
Will be providing IT services for the crime-fighting agency
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DDC IT Services wins $50m mainframe contract from DISA
Could span up to five years
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TIA releases third revision of Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers
Includes new connectivity requirements among other changes
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Nvidia to acquire GPU management provider Run:ai
Will help customers manage distributed AI deployments
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United Airlines approaches completion of cloud migration project
Has migrated between 70 and 90 percent of workloads to the cloud
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Insurance company Great Eastern migrates 300 databases to on-premise Oracle Cloud hardware
Previously used Oracle's on-premises databases
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IBM mainframes survive 4.8 magnitude Earthquake in US East Coast
200 mainframes in Poughkeepsie, NY, remain unharmed
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AWS launches cloud-based rendering offering
Deadline Cloud can be used for VFX pipelines on AWS cloud
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Walmart's global technology platform suffers 16 major incidents
Incidents occurred in first eight weeks of the fiscal year
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Cloudflare shares how the company handles server maintenance at scale
Secrets to smooth hyperscale operations revealed