Anirban Ghoshal
Senior Writer
Anirban Ghoshal is a senior writer, covering enterprise software for CIO and databases and cloud infrastructure for InfoWorld.
Microsoft blames Aussie data center outage on staff strength, failed automation
The outage that occurred on August 30 led to downtime in Azure services pertaining to APIs, databases, and applications.
Intel’s Tower Semiconductor acquisition fails, as China withholds OK
Intel's planned $5.4 billion acquisition of Israel-based Tower falls apart, as China fails to approve the deal before the companies' agreement deadline.
Google launches Pricing API to help enterprises optimize cloud costs
Pricing API will provide an inventory of public services and SKUs along with account-specific custom prices and discounts with additional metadata, down to the SKU level.
AWS customers struggle for hours after a major outage
The company’s contact handling department also bore the brunt of the outage in its US-East-1 region, which affected at least 104 AWS services.
Microsoft’s first cloud region in Italy launched in Lombardy
The new cloud region, which will have three data centers, is expected to contribute about $22.95 billion to the Italian economy over the next four years.
India reboots plan to attract chip makers to build fabs in country
After several initial deals stalled, the Indian government is re-inviting applications for building semiconductor facilities in the country as the US-China chip trade war transforms the sector.
Nvidia’s new Grace Hopper superchip to fuel its DGX GH200 AI supercomputer
The DGX GH200 AI supercomputer is targeted toward developing and supporting large language models. Google Cloud, Meta, and Microsoft already have access to it.
Microsoft integrates Nvidia’s AI Enterprise Suite with Azure Machine Learning
The integration of Nvidia’s software suite will further help enterprises build, deploy, and manage applications based on large language models.
Nvidia joins with Dell to target on-prem generative AI
Project Helix will see Dell and Nvidia combine their hardware and software infrastructure to help enterprises build and manage generative AI models on-premises.
Meta is working on its own chip, data center design for AI workloads
The Facebook parent said that it is working on a new AI-optimized data center design and the second phase of its 16,000 GPU supercomputer for AI research.
AWS to invest $12.7B to expand its cloud infrastructure in India by 2030
The investment, which is aimed at meeting growing customer demand, is expected to add $23.3 billion to the country’s GDP by 2030 while generating 131,700 jobs annually for the next seven years, the company said.