The 10-year partnership will see Vodafone migrate 46,000 servers from on-premises data centers to Microsoft Azure.

It’s “only a question of time before similar approaches” materialize from Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services, LINX's Mike Hellers said.

The eight-year agreement will supply Microsoft with 12 GW of solar modules, or enough clean energy to power nearly 2 million households for a year.

Cloud vendor investments in artificial intelligence drove China's cloud services market to $9.2 billion in Q3 2023.

IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh establishes connectivity based on application endpoints rather than physical networks, allowing deployment of workloads across data centers, private clouds and public clouds.

The silicon vendor is seeing declines in enterprise networking chip demand, but that is increasingly being offset by artificial intelligence gains.

“Even this last quarter, we did close some additional deals that I would consider to be influenced by the Broadcom-VMware transaction," CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said.

The vendor is seeing customers who initially purchased a firewall-based single-vendor secure access service edge solution that failed to deliver, Jay Chaudhry said.

The supercomputing offer boasts increases in networking throughput, memory, bandwidth and sustainability.

At re:Invent, AWS unveiled new cloud networking capabilities that simplify connections, improve availability and strengthen protections across AWS environments.

AWS cloud-based water stewardship efforts helped a Spanish province reduce water loss by 8.7 million gallons.

Now that the approvals are all in, Broadcom faces the critical task of integrating VMware.

"Unlike the data centers of the past, this data center is dedicated to one job, and one job only: running AI models," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said.

It's combining efforts with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and other Linux Foundation Networking projects.

The hyperscaler announced two new custom data center chips designed to optimize data center hardware and software stacks for high-performance AI workloads.

The nation or company that builds a generalized quantum computer will dominate the market and a good chunk of the world economy, Michio Kaku said.

The vendor also introduced five new next-generation firewalls, expanding its portfolio to include more use cases such as 5G and operational technology.

Leveling up its open-source container management platform, SUSE improves security, clusters and apps with new releases of Rancher and Rancher Prime.

"We actually have a roadmap to continue to add those [secure access service edge] capabilities and features throughout next year,” SVP Dan DeBacker said.

IBM rebuilt its SIEM tech to be cloud native, better handle deployments and larger scale, and provide better visibility into hybrid environments.

VMware extended its partnership with Google Cloud to offer AlloyDB Omni on VMware Cloud Foundation in private, on-prem cloud environments.

Talon Cyber Security, a 2.5-year-old Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup, has raised $143 million over three funding rounds.

"Gone are the days of driving a truck out," Red Hat's Richard Henshall said, as companies have scaled their far-edge devices into the hundreds or thousands.

Developers can expect to save up to 60% of their time by using Red Hat's centralized multicluster management capabilities.