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The complicated AI infrastructure market

AI models get the attention, but the real story is how neoclouds are impacting the scramble for GPU compute, power, and data center capacity. Here is how to make sense of the companies trying to control the infrastructure layer underneath every major AI model.

By David Linthicum

Sep 15, 20268 mins

Critical InfrastructureData and Information SecurityIaaS

Cloud has a new bulk capacity market

By David Linthicum

Sep 11, 20265 mins

Critical InfrastructureData and Information SecurityIaaS

AI demand meets grid capacity

By David Linthicum

Aug 25, 20267 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingCritical Infrastructure

Is Mistral late or savvy?

Jun 22, 20268 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCritical InfrastructureTechnology Industry

Cloud providers are blinded by agentic AI

By David Linthicum

May 5, 20267 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingCritical Infrastructure

Enterprise AI is missing the business core

By David Linthicum

Apr 28, 20266 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCritical InfrastructureGenerative AI

The data center gold rush is warping reality

By David Linthicum

Feb 20, 20267 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCritical InfrastructureTechnology Industry

Cloud fragility is costing us billions

By David Linthicum

Nov 28, 20255 mins

Business ContinuityCloud ComputingCritical Infrastructure

Breaking Europe’s cloud deadlock

By David Linthicum

Nov 11, 20256 mins

Critical InfrastructureHybrid CloudTechnology Industry

Articles

More hardware won’t fix bad engineering

Engineering fundamentals aren’t just for computer science students. They pay huge dividends in both your systems’ service levels and your company’s balance sheet.

Sep 15, 2025 6 mins

Critical InfrastructureDatabasesTechnology Industry

Can your cloud provider really scale?

The service disruption in the Azure East US region reveals capacity problems that are happening more often. Enterprises need to rethink their strategies, enforce stricter SLAs, and accept that public clouds are still vulnerable.

By David Linthicum

Aug 15, 2025 5 mins

Critical InfrastructureHybrid CloudTechnology Industry

Does public cloud AI cost too much?

A recent Deloitte study finds that public cloud is not the best TCO option for AI infrastructure.

By David Linthicum

Jul 15, 2025 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCritical InfrastructureDigital Transformation

Dumping mainframes for cloud can be a costly mistake

Mainframes were the punchline of jokes in the early days of cloud computing, but their steady dependability is still critical to IT architectures.

By David Linthicum

Jun 27, 2025 4 mins

Cloud ComputingCritical Infrastructure

Where the business cloud weathers the storm

Mission critical apps need special consideration

Nov 10, 2017 6 mins

Cloud ComputingCritical Infrastructure