The world is getting stranger, isn’t it? We understand, given the difficulties of selling Arm server chips to hyperscalers and cloud builders that are also designing and manufacturing their own Arm CPUs, why Ampere Computing, the only successful freestanding Arm server CPU supplier to even get its chips into its chosen tech titan customers, would want to be acquired by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. …
Oracle’s cloud may be been in the running to be the host of a massive AI training system for Elon Musk’s xAI startup, with a purported $10 billion in rentals at stake. …
Wouldn’t it be funny if all of that money that Microsoft spent last year paying neocloud upstart CoreWeave was just to support ever-embiggening AI training workloads at OpenAI as it makes its GPT models smarter? …
The dependency dance between AI pioneer OpenAI and the Microsoft Azure cloud and the application software divisions of its parent company are fascinating to watch. …
As one year ends and another begins, this is often the time when people change jobs and companies change strategies. …
Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the late 1970s. …
Despite a slow start several years ago, Oracle has refashioned itself into a cloud builder, rapidly expanding its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to make it among the top second-tier providers, although still well behind the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. …
UPDATED: Some people are obsessed by crowd sizes, others by their net worth, and still others by the size of their AI datacenters. …
It’s a multi-cloud world and one with a cloud infrastructure services market that is dominated by three large players. …
Maybe, if you need blazing performance extracting data and chewing on it from a relational database, it belongs in a cloud. …
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