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Maison Edwards

Maison Edwards has a dedicated following interested in a wide range of IT-related topics, which include, Cloud, Data Centres and Virtualization, Enterprise Applications, and Storage. Of particular interest to his audience are the ways these technologies build and rely on each other, which Maison is easily able to communicate through his writings. A particular highlight of his work is the ways in which it has been able to help organizations accelerate their migration to cloud and to realize the benefits of infrastructure modernization. 
Is This Johnson Controls’ Key to Data Center Cooling?
Data Centres and Virtualization
Is This Johnson Controls’ Key to Data Center Cooling?

Introduction The immense computational power driving modern society generates an equally immense amount of heat, pushing the physical limits of the digital infrastructure that underpins our world. As artificial intelligence and high-density computing become standard, the challenge of efficiently cooling data centers has shifted from a logistical concern to a critical bottleneck for innovation. In response to this escalating need,

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Trend Analysis: Cloud Platform Instability
Cloud
Trend Analysis: Cloud Platform Instability

A misapplied policy cascaded across Microsoft’s global infrastructure, plunging critical services into a 10-hour blackout and reminding the world just how fragile the digital backbone of the modern economy can be. This was not an isolated incident but a symptom of a disturbing trend. Cloud platform instability is rapidly shifting from a rare technical glitch to a recurring and predictable

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Are You Choosing the Most Cost-Effective LLM?
AI and ML
Are You Choosing the Most Cost-Effective LLM?

The rapid proliferation of Large Language Models has presented businesses with an unprecedented opportunity for innovation, yet it has also introduced a significant and often overlooked financial liability. In the rush to integrate artificial intelligence, many organizations find themselves navigating a complex landscape of options without a clear strategy, inadvertently paying a steep “trial-and-error tax.” This paradox of choice, where

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Trend Analysis: Multi-Hypervisor Private Clouds
Cloud
Trend Analysis: Multi-Hypervisor Private Clouds

The long-standing paradigm of a single, monolithic private cloud platform is rapidly eroding under the immense pressure for greater enterprise agility and freedom from vendor constraints. As organizations navigate increasingly complex digital landscapes, the era of the single-platform private cloud is giving way to a more agile, multi-hypervisor future. This critical shift is being driven by strategic partnerships that are

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Cloud Infrastructure Cloning – Review
Cloud
Cloud Infrastructure Cloning – Review

For years, the promise of a truly flexible multicloud strategy has remained just out of reach for most enterprises, hindered by the immense friction of moving complex workloads between different public cloud environments. Cloud Infrastructure Cloning represents a significant advancement in the cloud computing sector, aiming to solve the persistent challenge of infrastructure portability and vendor lock-in. This review will

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VS Code Extension Flaws Expose 128 Million Developers
Cyber Security
VS Code Extension Flaws Expose 128 Million Developers

A comprehensive security analysis has brought to light a disturbing reality for the global developer community, revealing that the very tools designed to streamline coding are a significant and often unmonitored attack vector. Four immensely popular Visual Studio Code extensions, with a combined download count exceeding 128 million, were found to harbor critical security vulnerabilities. These flaws in trusted and

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Can Mistral AI Challenge American Cloud Giants?
Cloud
Can Mistral AI Challenge American Cloud Giants?

In a move that reverberates through the global AI industry, French model developer Mistral AI has decisively stepped beyond its origins by acquiring Koyeb, a Parisian serverless cloud startup, signaling a dramatic escalation of its strategic ambitions. This first-ever acquisition is not merely a corporate transaction but a declaration of intent to forge a comprehensive, full-stack enterprise AI infrastructure. By

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Will AI Replace Developers or Empower Them?
AI and ML
Will AI Replace Developers or Empower Them?

The once-predictable rhythm of software development, with its cycles measured in months and years, has been shattered by a phenomenon now known as “AI time,” where the entire process can be compressed into weeks, days, or even hours. This dramatic acceleration has ignited a fierce debate across the technology industry, creating a deep schism between two powerful and opposing forces.

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GitHub’s AI Aims to End Repetitive DevOps Work
DevOps
GitHub’s AI Aims to End Repetitive DevOps Work

The relentless grind of software repository maintenance often represents the unseen friction slowing down innovation, a thankless cycle of debugging, triaging, and updating that developers would rather trade for building new features. In the continuous pursuit of efficiency, DevOps is now on the brink of a significant evolution driven by artificial intelligence. GitHub is spearheading this transformation with “Agentic Workflows,”

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Mediterra Expands to Spain With New Barcelona Data Center
Data Centres and Virtualization
Mediterra Expands to Spain With New Barcelona Data Center

A Strategic Leap into Southern Europe’s Digital Future Mediterra DataCenters, a platform dedicated to serving Southern Europe, has officially announced its expansion into Spain through a significant data center development in Barcelona, a move that marks a pivotal moment for both the company and the region’s burgeoning digital economy. This new facility is engineered not just to satisfy current market

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Swiss Army Data Center Faces Decade-Long Delay
Data Centres and Virtualization
Swiss Army Data Center Faces Decade-Long Delay

A Critical Project Stalled: The KASTRO II Conundrum A cornerstone of Switzerland’s military modernization effort, the high-security KASTRO II data center, is now projected to be completed more than a decade behind schedule, with its operational target pushed to 2035. This significant setback raises critical questions about the execution of large-scale government infrastructure projects and its impact on national security

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Texas to Dethrone Virginia as Top Data Center Hub
Data Centres and Virtualization
Texas to Dethrone Virginia as Top Data Center Hub

A seismic shift is underway in the digital world, redrawing the map of global data infrastructure and setting the stage for Texas to emerge as the new epicenter of the cloud. The North American data center market is experiencing a period of explosive growth, driven by an insatiable demand for computing power that is pushing development far beyond traditional technology

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