HPE declares Juniper deal a 'home run' as AI and networking fuel record quarter

Networking orders surged, AI demand showed little sign of slowing, and HPE used the occasion to take a victory lap over its $14 billion Juniper bet

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Ohio hits pause on datacenter tax breaks draining its coffers

Buckeye State found it had inadvertently joined the billion dollar losers' club

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Dailyish note today posted: https://divisionbyzero.net/notes/2026-05-29/

Most of the content is a lesson I learned at Booking.com: Own your differentiators. I'm _SO_ fucking sick and tired of cloud and SaaS for everything. Owning and running your own infrastructure is not that complicated and is _FAR_ cheaper than leasing it from hyperscalers.

Maybe this is why I'm so opposed to AI? On premise, self-hosted, owned infrastructure companies I worked for kept their OpEx's below 40%. The SaaS/Cloud heavy infrastructure companies I worked for had 80-100% OpEx costs. This is not a coincidence!

#selfhosted #onprem #fuck_cloud #fuck_ai

🚀✨ Mistral wants us to believe they're the European AI knights in shining armor, ready to slay the cloud dragons with their "on-prem" #models. Meanwhile, we're all left wondering if their 40MW Parisian data center comes with a lifetime supply of baguettes and berets. 🥖🎩
https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/mistral-ai-now-summit #MistralAI #EuropeanAI #CloudComputing #OnPrem #DataCenter #BaguettesAndBerets #HackerNews #ngated
Notes from the AI Now Summit by Mistral

A few days in Paris for the Mistral AI Now Summit: open models, on-prem deployment, agentic harnesses, and why Mistral wants to be the European full-stack AI partner.

LibreOffice greift Google Docs und Microsoft 365 an

Die Document Foundation richtet LibreOffice neu aus. Kern bleibt die Desktop-Version, aber Apps für Webbrowser und Smartphones sollen kommen.

#libreoffice #onprem #freedom

https://www.heise.de/news/Kurswechsel-LibreOffice-fuer-Browser-und-Smartphone-kommt-11309343.html

LibreOffice greift Google Docs und Microsoft 365 an

Die Document Foundation richtet LibreOffice neu aus. Kern bleibt die Desktop-Version, aber Apps für Webbrowser und Smartphones sollen kommen.

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Europe told to cool its datacenter boom before water and power run short

Get the balance right, Grundfos says, and the region will be a shining example of how to do it without sacrificing the environment

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Kyndryl takes employees' pulse while cutting off circulation for some

Redundancy notices and sentiment survey land in inboxes on same day in what tech services biz calls 'commitment to listen'

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Just wondering what will happens in 10+ years when people who still know how to run serious on-prem infrastructure are gone.

Who you gonna call when things break badly at 2am?

Aren't we just trading operational knowledge for conenience?

Maybe it's just fine and I don't know it yet.

#Infrastructure #OnPrem #HybridCloud #Resilience

Outlook has an image problem

Microsoft says classic client may lose embedded pictures thanks to wrapping bug

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Want to learn about #GitOps? It's not just for #Kubernetes. Join us for #Louisville #dotNET! https://www.meetup.com/louisville-dotnet/events/314105956/ happening virtually and in-person! We'll show an #OnPrem GitOps setup and a #k8s GitOps workflow. Slides: https://robrich.org/slides/gitops/, code: https://github.com/robrich/gitops
GitOps: Easy Deploy and Even Easier Rollback, Thu, May 21, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

On Thursday, May 21, 2026, we will meet at the 700N Conference Room at 700 N Hurstbourne Pkwy. Doors will open at 6:00 p.m., and the presentations will begin sharply at 6:3

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