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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

Licensing 306
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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

Two traits they share are a commitment to diversity and inclusion and active participation in organizations and programs championing women in tech. Fun fact: Centoni is Ciscos Executive Sponsor for the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program. Fun fact: She is a licensed English-as-a-Second Language teacher.

Network 390
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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

They integrate with Slack, Microsoft Messenger, and other chat programs where they read the language you use, then turn on when you type in a trigger phrase. That’s why critics say these programs are always listening; if they weren’t, they’d never know when you need them. NLTK is offered under the Apache 2.0 Amazon Comprehend.

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Redfin to be acquired by Rocket Companies in $1.75B deal

GeekWire

Redfin, which launched in 2004 and went public in 2017, attracts nearly 50 million visitors to its platform each month. In 2022, responding to a housing market slowdown, Redfin laid off staff and ditched its iBuying program. The company cut 450 employees after announcing a recent licensing deal with Zillow Group.

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Nutanix hunts disgruntled VMware customers

Network World

And Nutanix is aggressively courting VMware customers who might be open to jumping ship in the wake of VMware’s purchase by Broadcom and some of the unpopular moves that have followed, such as potentially costly changes to licensing terms and disruptions to channel relationships. It’s been pretty awesome,” says Fishtrom.

Vmware 282
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Accelerate Sustainable Digital Transformation in the Oil & Gas Industry

CIO Business Intelligence

If an enterprise can do more work with less hardware, using fewer servers, licenses, and people, they save money while lowering carbon emissions. Upcycling programs can help enterprise businesses manage the financial and sustainability impacts of surplus equipment. Power savings represents just part of the equation.

Industry 246
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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2020, Microsoft became the first to license OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI software for inclusion in its own products and services. Microsoft is also offering Codex as a service in the form of GitHub Copilot, an AI-based pair programming tool that can generate code fragments from natural language prompts.