사모펀드 블랙록(BlackRock)이 주도하는 컨소시엄이 얼라인드데이터센터(Aligned Data Centers)를 400억 달러에 인수한다고 밝혔다. 이는 역대 최대 규모의 데이터센터 인수로 평가되지만, 단순한 규모 이상의 의미를 지닌다. 다시 말해 기업 CIO들이 AI 인프라를 확보하기가 점점 더 어렵게 시장이 변화하고 있음을 보여준다. 데이터센터 용량이 시장에서 물리적으로 사라지는 것은 아니지만, 사모펀드와 빅테크 기업이 빠르게 소유권을 통합하면서 누가, 얼마에, 어떤 조건으로 우선…
영국 반도체 설계 기업 Arm이 AI 중심 데이터센터에서 급격히 늘어나는 에너지 수요 문제를 해결하기 위해 오픈컴퓨트프로젝트(Open Compute Project, OCP)에 참여한다고 발표했다. Arm은 통합형 인프라를 위한 차세대 맞춤형 실리콘과 패키징 기술 개발을 지원할 계획이라고 밝혔다. 이를 실현하기 위해서는 컴퓨팅, 가속화, 메모리, 스토리지, 네트워킹 등 다양한 영역이 유기적으로 결합된 공동 설계 역량이 필요하다고 설명했다. Arm에 따르면 앞으로의…
Following its entrance into the data labeling space last year with the launch of a new division, Scaled Solutions, Uber on Thursday introduced a pilot project in the US market that will see its drivers, like their counterparts in India, annotate data for use in AI training. Megha Yethadka, global head of the division now…
A consortium led by private equity firm BlackRock is buying Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion. It’s said to be the largest data center deal in history — but more than that, it highlights a market shift that’s putting enterprise CIOs at a strategic disadvantage when it comes to accessing AI infrastructure. As private equity…
Financial systems may not seem like “critical infrastructure.” But the tools and systems that manage and govern the flow of money in and out of financial services providers have more in common with the mission-critical systems of transportation, energy, and manufacturing, than one might think. Consider the possible impact of hallucinations or model drift in…
Over the past decade, I’ve witnessed and led milestones that once seemed impossible. Critical workloads have migrated to the cloud. Customer experiences have been digitized. Legacy systems, once described as immovable, have been modernized. Boardrooms across industries celebrated these achievements as transformational. Yet, as I reflect on these milestones, I’ve realized something important: Modernization was…
After many years leading digital transformation across global enterprises, I’ve learned one truth that most CIOs discover too late: AI is only as powerful as the data architecture supporting it. Yet most enterprises are attempting AI deployment on data foundations designed for a pre-intelligent world, then wondering why their multimillion-dollar initiatives fail to deliver transformational…
As an architect, it became abundantly clear to me over the last decade that an enterprise’s capacity to support interoperability between application and data ecosystems has been the dominant theme in achieving competitive differentiation and time to market. Industry channel partners and software-as-a-service (SaaS) OEMs alike understood this some time ago and built ecosystems that…
La apuesta por la transformación digital de ING se está traduciendo en la apertura de múltiples centros repartidos en varios países con talento especializado para abordar las nuevas necesidades de la entidad financiera, debidas a la intensa digitalización del mercado y los clientes a los que da servicio. El último de estos centros, el sexto,…
More than seven in 10 IT leaders are worried about their organizations’ ability to keep up with regulatory requirements as they deploy generative AI, with many concerned about a potential patchwork of regulations on the way. More than 70% of IT leaders named regulatory compliance as one of their top three challenges related to gen…