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Data center chip sales to enterprises dropped due to weak economy; sales to cloud platforms are expected to slow in the current period.

Project Apex will let customers manage information and applications across public clouds and their own data centers.

Also announced at the Open Infrastructure Summit was the OpenStack Victoria open source cloud platform, with improved integration with Kubernetes and enhanced IPv6 support.

Scott Fulton asks whether an AMD takeover would be good for Xilinx; Goldman backs a new global data center venture; Microsoft pitches Azure in shipping containers; and more.

Colocation data centers and hybrid cloud frameworks are in the position to form the foundation of edge computing architectures.