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The front view of Oxide's Cloud Computer, a tall black server cabinet filled with green servers called sleds.

Oxide launches its cloud-like data center server

The rise of the cloud was not just a transition from owning computers to renting them; it also ushered in enterprise computing resources that were scalable and flexible. Oxide Computer is a bet that enterprise tech wants to run the cloud model in its own data centers.

A representation of how vector databases work. Content is fed into an embedding model, which generative vectors that are s

Why vector databases are the engine of the AI era

Behind every breakthrough in enterprise technology over the past few decades you'll find a database. This year, as engineering managers and CIOs are being asked to articulate a generative AI strategy in the middle of a hype cycle for the ages, the vector database is having its coming-out party.

HashiCorp co-founder and CTO Armon Dadgar speaks at last year's HashiConf. Credit: HashiCorp

As HashiCorp adopts the BSL, an era of open-source software might be ending

HashiCorp announced Thursday that it is switching the license that governs the use of its open-source projects from the Mozilla Public License to the Business Source License (BSL), a license that does not meet the traditional definition of open source as described by the Open Source Initiative.

The lobby of Red Hat's headquarters building with badged entry gates and a big red hat.

Why Red Hat decided to cut off the clones

Red Hat is probably the most successful open-source enterprise software company in the history of tech. For many years that success has existed in tension with the open-source software community, and this summer that tension rose to a new level.

A visual rendition of infrastructure and app components created by System Initiative.

Meet System Initiative, a new DevOps tool from Chef founder Adam Jacob

The startup has raised $18 million in funding to create a private beta of what Jacob called a "simulator" that models a company's tech infrastructure — on either cloud services or on-premises servers — using digital twins technology.

How CoreWeave went all-in on Nvidia to take on Big Cloud

How CoreWeave went all-in on Nvidia to take on Big Cloud

CoreWeave, which started out as a cryptocurrency mining operation, is taking a fresh approach to cloud services: It is focused on delivering the raw ingredients for the generative AI boom at extremely competitive prices.