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5 Strategies for Cloud Cost Optimization in Multicloud Environments

Businesses use the cloud for scalability, security, agility, speed to market, reducing operational expense and other reasons. Some users, however, aren’t saving as much money as hoped ...

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Enabling Low-Latency Inference Hubs Across Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures

Did you see the announcement from Oracle and AWS about the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS?1 Customers can now implement Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) on AWS Real ...

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The Backbone of AI: Performance, Proximity and Bandwidth

Artificial intelligence is reshaping industries faster than ever – but this wave of innovation rides on a complex and evolving infrastructure. AI has two primary requirements: training ...

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AI Shifts the Balance of Where to Host Workloads: The 2025 State of the Data Center Report Explains Why

Hybrid IT is a balancing act. On-premises, colocation, cloud providers and hyperscalers all have roles, and IT leaders are increasingly adept at distributing workloads where they ...

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Making Hybrid IT Work: Why Interconnection Belongs on Your Priority List

Interconnection makes hybrid IT work. It provides integration and connectivity for applications and services on-premises, in colocation data centers and public clouds. In this post, I ...

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Disaster Recovery for Real-Time AI Algorithms

With AI transitioning from training to implementation, real-time data’s high velocity means even brief outages can result in significant gaps that can jeopardize AI inferences. In this ...

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New State of the Data Center Report Highlights Hybrid Infrastructure in the AI Era

IT leaders remain committed to colocation – a stable, secure, resilient and scalable environment for workloads – according to the just-released 2025 State of the Data Center report ...

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Smarter Government Starts with AI

Artificial intelligence has the potential to enable governments to deliver more cost-effective, modernized public services by accelerating digital transformation. Capitalizing on that ...

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6 Ways Data Centers Impact Our Lives and Communities

We live in a digital world built on the bedrock of data centers. Every time we check email, text someone, browse a website, use social media, stream music and movies, request a ride, ...

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