Although Progress is primarily a proprietary company, its purchase of open source Chef might prompt it to jump on the open source bandwagon.

After several years of less-than-stellar success in the crowded HCI space, Microsoft Azure Stack HCI is being transitioned to a subscription offering with its own operating system, Azure Stack HCI 20H2.

Although the distro is available on its cloud now, its real value for AWS may come down the road, if other vendors adopt it for their platforms.

Royal Bank of Canada's use of IT already put it ahead of the curve compared to other banks – and then it decided to build its own AI-focused GPU farm.