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GPU Fragmentation Is Killing AI Economics

By 2026, the GPU shortage isn’t a supply-chain hiccup anymore. It’s baked into the system. Even after pouring billions into CapEx, most enterprises still want 40% more GPU capacity than they actually have. And it’s not because they’re chasing moonshots. Technology companies are training foundation models while serving inference for millions of users on the same clusters. AI labs are juggling fine-tuning, evaluation, and real-time experimentation side by side.

Observability for Azure Virtual Desktop with SquaredUp

Managing Azure Virtual Desktop doesn’t have to mean jumping between portal blades, logs, and metrics trying to piece together what’s happening. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to design and implement a single, operational observability dashboard for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) using SquaredUp Cloud — transforming fragmented telemetry into clear, actionable insight. Whether you're responsible for performance, user experience, or operational stability, this session will give you a structured, repeatable framework for monitoring your AVD estate with confidence.

AI-ready sovereignty playbook 2026: how to run gen-AI workloads (ethically) in the EU

Sovereignty is a concept that can have shown nuances in the way it is currently used by states and industry to describe some services. The term “strategic autonomy” has also been used, as to describe the need for governments to ensure that they have a hand on the full value chain (or at least know the gaps and accept the risks) and can apply their rules while it seats in its jurisdiction (autonomy derives from the greek autos (self) nomos (rule).

Practice Vs. Performance: Two Reports On The State Of FinOps

This month, two FinOps research reports landed in close proximity. One from the FinOps Foundation — their 6th annual State of FinOps, drawing on a broad global practitioner community. One from CloudZero: FinOps in the AI Era: A Critical Recalibration, built on responses from 475 senior leaders at cloud-mature, AI-active organizations, with a focused lens on how AI is reshaping cloud cost management. Read each alone, and you get a useful snapshot for your business.

Beyond "Reactive" Accessibility: Meeting the 2026 ADA Title II Mandate in Higher Ed

For decades, digital accessibility in state-funded higher education has largely been a "reactive" game. If a student with a visual impairment reported an issue with a tuition portal, the university would scramble to provide an accommodation. As long as the institution could show "meaningful progress" toward compliance, it was generally shielded from significant legal repercussions. That era is officially ending. The U.S.

Use plain English to query your multi-cloud infrastructure in Resource Catalog

Modern cloud environments include thousands of resources across providers, teams, and accounts. Organizations need the ability to quickly locate the right resources so that they can manage resource compliance and troubleshoot issues. When engineers need to answer questions such as which databases are still on extended support or which storage buckets lack encryption, they often have to switch consoles, use provider-specific query languages, and know obscure version strings or configuration flags.

Inside Pandora's Box: How CloudZero AI Hub Cracks Cloud Cost Intelligence

Years in the FinOps trenches taught me one thing: The data has never been the problem. The data exists. It’s out there, scattered across provider invoices, buried in tagging gaps, locked behind dashboards that maybe three people in your org actually know how to navigate. The real problem? Nobody can get to it when they need it. Engineers ship features without understanding what they cost the business, let alone whether they improved margin.

Inference Economics: What It Is And Why It Matters Now

Somewhere between a model’s first demo and its first production workload, the cost conversation changes completely. Training is a big number, but it’s a finite one. Inference isn’t. Every user interaction, every query, every API call triggers compute behind the scenes — and unlike training, inference never stops billing. That shift from one-time expense to ongoing operational cost is where inference economics begins.

Beyond the horizon: How Ana Cidre turned a non-linear path into leadership

Welcome to Beyond the horizon, a monthly series celebrating the people who shape Upsun’s culture, innovation, and heart. In this month’s edition, we’re featuring Ana Cidre, Director of Developer Advocacy at Upsun and one of the key voices shaping how developers experience our platform today and in the future.