CDW announces acquisition of Mission Cloud Services
AWS announces new data center components to support AI innovation and improve energy efficiency
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CDW announces acquisition of Mission Cloud Services
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As an AWS-certified genAI partner , Mission securely transforms customer data with AI and ML solutions – offering comprehensive protection for AWS-managed environments .
“ The acquisition of Mission accelerates our three-part growth strategy by augmenting our cloud services and enhancing our ability to deliver customer-centric outcomes across the full technology solutions stack and lifecycle ,” said Christine A . Leahy , Chair and CEO , CDW .
CDW has acquired Mission Cloud Services with the transaction complementing CDW Digital Velocity – CDW ’ s cloud , data , AI and software platform engineering organization – while bolstering CDW ’ s existing cloud expertise , market scale and solution capabilities .
Mission and CDW will come together as CDW ’ s dedicated AWS practice .
Founded in 2017 , Mission works closely to understand the unique needs of small business and mid-market AWS customers by offering customized solutions and strategic guidance for professional services
Simon Anderson , Mission chairman , founder and CEO , said : “ Joining CDW represents a pivotal moment to scale our dedicated AWS practice at all stages of the customer ’ s cloud , security , and AI journey .
“ As an AWS Premier Tier Partner , we are strategically positioned to help CDW ’ s extensive customer network embrace and accelerate building on AWS and optimize their technology investments and AIdriven innovation .”
Bob Kirby , Senior Vice President , Public Sector & Digital Velocity , CDW , said : “ By leveraging our combined technical and industry expertise across all end markets , CDW grows as an AWS Premier Tier Partner with a combined 17 AWS Competencies .”
AWS announces new data center components to support AI innovation and improve energy efficiency
AWS has announced new data center components designed to support the next generation of AI innovation and customers ’ evolving needs .
These capabilities combine innovations in power , cooling and hardware design to create a more energy efficient data center that will underpin further customer innovation . These new capabilities will be implemented globally in AWS ’ s new data centers , and many components are already deployed in its existing data centers . emerging workloads . But what is even more exciting is that they are designed to be modular , so that we are able to retrofit our existing infrastructure for liquid cooling and energy efficiency to power generative AI applications and lower our carbon footprint .”
Key improvements include simplified electrical and mechanical design for high availability , innovations in cooling , rack design and control systems , liquid cooling , support for high-density AI workloads , updated control systems and increased energy efficiency and sustainability .
The new data center components are built to scale across all AWS ’ s infrastructure worldwide .
Construction of new AWS data centers with the full set of components is expected to begin in early 2025 in the USA .
“ AWS continues to relentlessly innovate its infrastructure to build the most performant , resilient , secure and sustainable cloud for customers worldwide ,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman , Vice President of Infrastructure Services , AWS .
“ These data center capabilities represent an important step forward with increased energy efficiency and flexible support for
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