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ZhongAn Tech Team

Mar 17, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Weekly Tech Digest: AI Model Advancements, Strategic Infrastructure Deals, and Industry Insights on AI Agents

This weekly technology digest highlights significant advancements in artificial intelligence, including OpenAI's Python-enabled o1 model, Google's open-source Gemma 3, and Alibaba's AI-driven Quark application, alongside major industry partnerships, expert forecasts on AI agent proliferation, and emerging developments in robotics and wearable technology.

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Weekly Tech Digest: AI Model Advancements, Strategic Infrastructure Deals, and Industry Insights on AI Agents

Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Oct 11, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure Network Team’s Contributions at ECOC 2023: Papers, Tutorial, and Workshop on Optical Data Center Networks

The Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure Network team presented a pioneering paper, a high‑profile tutorial, and a workshop at the 2023 European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), showcasing systematic analyses of optical network unavailability, innovative data‑center optical network designs, and multi‑fiber scaling strategies for large‑scale cloud operators.

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Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Sep 19, 2023 · Cloud Computing

AI‑Era Cloud Infrastructure: High Compute Density, Linear Scalability and Intelligent Operations – Highlights from the 2023 Open Data Center Conference

The 2023 Open Data Center Conference in Beijing showcased Alibaba Cloud's AI‑era infrastructure innovations—including high‑density compute clusters, predictable high‑performance networking, intelligent power‑simulation systems, battery diagnostics, liquid‑cooling solutions, and modular server standards—demonstrating how cloud platforms are being rebuilt to meet the demands of large AI models and sustainable operation.

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AI‑Era Cloud Infrastructure: High Compute Density, Linear Scalability and Intelligent Operations – Highlights from the 2023 Open Data Center Conference

Architects Research Society

Aug 28, 2023 · Operations

Enterprise Automation as a Strategic Initiative: Key Considerations and the Role of Ansible Automation Platform

The article explains how enterprise automation should be treated as a strategic, business‑level initiative rather than isolated technical projects, outlines the complexities of coordinating multiple automation efforts across hybrid cloud environments, and highlights Ansible Automation Platform as a comprehensive solution for integrating tools, managing secrets, and measuring ROI.

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Enterprise Automation as a Strategic Initiative: Key Considerations and the Role of Ansible Automation Platform

Tencent Cloud Developer

May 31, 2023 · Cloud Computing

TencentOS "Wujing": Server Memory Multi-Level Offloading Solution for Cloud Data Centers

TencentOS “Wujing” provides a server‑memory multi‑level offloading framework that uses kernel‑side reclamation, heat‑aware page classification, SWAP balancing, and CXL promotion to shift cold pages to cheaper storage, cutting data‑center memory use by up to 50 % while preserving performance.

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TencentOS "Wujing": Server Memory Multi-Level Offloading Solution for Cloud Data Centers

Architects' Tech Alliance

Jan 22, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Gartner 2022 China Hyper‑Converged Infrastructure Market Landscape and Vendor Analysis

The Gartner 2022 China hyper‑converged infrastructure (HCI) market report outlines rapid market growth, categorises vendors into large DCI, specialist and crossover types, and provides detailed competitive analyses of major players such as Huawei, H3C, Inspur, Lenovo, ArcherOS, SmartX, Zettakit, CMCC, EasyStack, QingCloud, Sangfor, Topsec and ZStack, highlighting their strengths, product portfolios and strategic directions.

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Gartner 2022 China Hyper‑Converged Infrastructure Market Landscape and Vendor Analysis

Bilibili Tech

Nov 11, 2022 · Cloud Computing

Behind the Scenes of S12: How Bilibili and Huawei Cloud Delivered a Seamless Esports Streaming Experience

The article details how Bilibili partnered with Huawei Cloud to stream the 2022 League of Legends World Championship, using real‑time super‑resolution, microservice architecture, edge computing and interactive features like heat effects and shopping carts, delivering a seamless, high‑quality, immersive esports experience for hundreds of millions of viewers.

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Behind the Scenes of S12: How Bilibili and Huawei Cloud Delivered a Seamless Esports Streaming Experience

Architects' Tech Alliance

Oct 6, 2022 · Cloud Computing

Overview of NVIDIA BlueField DPU Features and Architecture

This article provides a comprehensive overview of NVIDIA BlueField DPU technology, detailing its interface and driver architecture, work modes, kernel representation model, multi‑host capabilities, virtual switch implementations, scalable functions, RDMA support, security accelerators, and related performance‑enhancing features for modern cloud and data‑center environments.

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Overview of NVIDIA BlueField DPU Features and Architecture

Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Sep 10, 2022 · Operations

Highlights of the 2022 ODCC Summit: Green Low‑Carbon Data Center Innovations and Technical Standards

The 2022 ODCC summit in Beijing showcased 55 innovative achievements across servers, networks, data‑center facilities, edge computing and intelligent monitoring, unveiling whitepapers, industry standards, OSSP specifications, liquid‑cooling guidelines, green data‑center practices, high‑performance networking and AI‑driven operations to promote low‑carbon, high‑efficiency computing infrastructure.

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Highlights of the 2022 ODCC Summit: Green Low‑Carbon Data Center Innovations and Technical Standards

Architects Research Society

Aug 1, 2022 · Operations

Enterprise Automation as a Strategic Initiative: Framework, Value, and the Role of Ansible Automation Platform

The article explains how enterprise automation should be treated as a strategic business initiative, outlines the value drivers such as quality, agility, compliance and cost savings, and presents a framework—including Ansible Automation Platform—to integrate and coordinate diverse automation projects across hybrid cloud environments.

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Enterprise Automation as a Strategic Initiative: Framework, Value, and the Role of Ansible Automation Platform

Architects' Tech Alliance

Mar 2, 2022 · Cloud Computing

Bus-Level Data Center Network Technology: RDMA Acceleration and Ultra-Low Latency Innovations

The article examines bus‑level data center network technologies, detailing how RDMA and ultra‑low‑latency forwarding mechanisms reduce end‑to‑end delays, enable high‑performance computing and AI workloads, and drive the evolution toward hyper‑converged, cloud‑native infrastructures.

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Bus-Level Data Center Network Technology: RDMA Acceleration and Ultra-Low Latency Innovations

Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Dec 27, 2021 · Fundamentals

Advances, Challenges, and Solutions for Programmable Switching ASICs – Alibaba Cloud’s Self‑Developed Compiler

This article reviews the evolution of programmable switching ASICs, outlines three major challenges—chip‑specific language diversity, distributed data‑plane programming, and resource optimization—and presents Alibaba Cloud’s self‑developed compiler as a high‑level solution that boosts development efficiency by up to 78% while cutting chip resource usage by up to 84%.

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Advances, Challenges, and Solutions for Programmable Switching ASICs – Alibaba Cloud’s Self‑Developed Compiler

DevOps

Dec 13, 2021 · Fundamentals

Huawei’s Digital Transformation Strategy: Re‑engineering Experience, Process, and Operations Toward a Digital Twin and Digital Metagenesis

In this speech, Huawei’s board member and IT quality president Tao Jingwen outlines the company’s multi‑layered digital transformation journey, emphasizing experience, process, and operation re‑engineering, the creation of a unified digital platform, and the evolution from digital twin to digital metagenesis to build future‑ready competitiveness.

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Huawei’s Digital Transformation Strategy: Re‑engineering Experience, Process, and Operations Toward a Digital Twin and Digital Metagenesis

Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Jul 16, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba’s Green Low‑Carbon Data Center Initiatives and Immersive Liquid‑Cooling Practices

The article reports on Alibaba’s recent efforts to build green, low‑carbon data centers—including large‑scale immersion liquid‑cooling deployments, open standards, and ambitious carbon‑neutral goals—within the broader context of China’s new data‑center action plan and industry trends.

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Alibaba’s Green Low‑Carbon Data Center Initiatives and Immersive Liquid‑Cooling Practices

Ctrip Technology

Jul 8, 2021 · Databases

Design and Evolution of TRocks: A Persistent KV Database Built on Kvrocks at Ctrip

This article describes Ctrip's journey from using Redis to developing TRocks, a persistent key‑value database based on Kvrocks, covering background, challenges, research, architectural enhancements, performance and cost evaluations, and future development plans.

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Design and Evolution of TRocks: A Persistent KV Database Built on Kvrocks at Ctrip

Top Architect

Jan 25, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Scaling Our AWS Infrastructure: Lessons from Meddy

The article chronicles how the fast‑growing startup Meddy transformed its monolithic AWS setup by adopting managed services such as RDS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Elasticsearch, Application Load Balancer, serverless Lambdas, ElastiCache, and Grafana Loki to achieve scalable, reliable, and observable cloud infrastructure.

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Scaling Our AWS Infrastructure: Lessons from Meddy

Efficient Ops

Aug 23, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Why Choose Bare Metal Servers? Uncover Their Cloud Benefits

An in‑depth look at bare metal servers explains how they differ from virtualized cloud instances, why they’re needed for performance‑critical or security‑sensitive workloads, their integration with cloud services, and market trends driving their growing adoption.

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Why Choose Bare Metal Servers? Uncover Their Cloud Benefits

Qunar Tech Salon

Jul 27, 2020 · Operations

Website Operations at Qunar: Ensuring Stability, Security, and Efficiency During the Pandemic

The interview with Sun Bin, head of Qunar's website operations, explains how the team acted as a specialized "BlackOps" unit to provide robust technical guarantees, automate problem‑solving, protect user data, optimize resources, and maintain continuous service during the COVID‑19 outbreak.

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Website Operations at Qunar: Ensuring Stability, Security, and Efficiency During the Pandemic

Tencent Cloud Developer

Jun 16, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Tencent Cloud Basic Network to VPC Migration Guide

This guide explains why Tencent Cloud’s Basic Network must be replaced by VPC for security isolation and details migration methods—including interconnection, CVM conversion, IP changes, image rebuilding, database VPC conversion, DTS, and load‑balancer adjustments—illustrated by a case study moving 600+ CVMs across 80 projects.

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Tencent Cloud Basic Network to VPC Migration Guide

Efficient Ops

Apr 24, 2020 · Cloud Computing

How Liquid Cooling Is Transforming Data Centers Amid the New Infrastructure Boom

Amid China's accelerated "new infrastructure" drive, high‑density computing is pushing data centers toward liquid cooling, a technology that not only boosts compute density and cuts floor space but also reshapes server and facility design, lowers failure rates, and promises broader industrial applications.

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How Liquid Cooling Is Transforming Data Centers Amid the New Infrastructure Boom