Episode Summary:In this episode of IT Breakroom, we we chat with Stephen Bowes-Phipps, VP of Data Centre & Cloud at State Street. We discuss what the modern green data center looks like and whether truly sustainable data centers are possible in the age of GenAI. The conversation covers hyperscalers vs traditional data centers, energy constraints … Read more
Case Study: How We Helped a Multi-Location Enterprise Decommission 10,000+ Devices in 5 Days Our client is a leading enterprise that operates an online marketplace and mobile app, supporting an average of 226 million active users. Challenge: Decommissioning 10,000+ IT Assets on a Tight Deadline The enterprise had over 10,000 IT assets sprawled across 12 … Read more
Renting GPUs Is Only Part of the Solution. The Infrastructure Bottleneck Comes Next While rentals provide quick access to GPUs, they come with infrastructure limitations. You work within the provider’s setup for power distribution, networking topology, and storage configuration. When you scale your workloads or run continuously, you’re likely to face longer job runtimes and … Read more
What Is the Neo-Cloud and How It Is Influencing Cloud Infrastructure Strategy The growing demand for AI workloads, machine learning, and data processing is pushing organizations to rethink how they scale compute. Many enterprises, research teams, and startups struggle to secure advanced GPUs as hyperscalers lock up supply for their own infrastructure buildouts. This leaves … Read more
Why ITAD Is Becoming Part of AI Infrastructure Planning AI adoption has increased the demand for GPUs in existing infrastructure planning. According to a Google Cloud report, almost every organization surveyed (98%) is experimenting with, building, or running gen AI in production. Many teams are purchasing or renting GPUs to meet their growing workload demand. … Read more
Why GPU Rentals Are the New Cloud Infrastructure Trend AI adoption is fueling the demand for high-performance computing (HPC) power, causing enterprise teams to buy large amounts of GPUs (graphics processing units) to scale their AI GPU cloud infrastructure faster. For example, Microsoft plans to invest around $15.5 billion to build the “largest supercomputer” project … Read more
Product Spotlight – NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB GPU The NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB GPU is engineered for enterprise AI, machine learning, and HPC workloads that demand high memory capacity and parallel performance. With 80GB of high-bandwidth memory, support for Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) partitioning, and PCIe 4.0 connectivity, the A100 accelerates training, inference, and analytics at … Read more
End of Support for Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 Microsoft ended support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, leaving around 400 million PCs unsupported. Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 lost support in 2023 and 2020 respectively. This has pushed businesses to look for alternative options or make critical decisions to support their … Read more
