CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

The cloud services landscape is in constant flux. With the cloud being an inevitable part of enterprise digital transformation journeys, IT leaders must keep on top of the latest developments in the cloud market to better predict downstream impacts on their roadmaps.

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Strategy Cloud Storage Data Center 328

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Alan Qi, President of Huawei Cloud Middle East and Central Asia, stated that Huawei Cloud is transforming how enterprises harness AI.He Huawei Cloud combines Cloud for AI and AI for Cloud, leveraging cloud infrastructure to build AI model capabilities and utilizing AI to enhance cloud development processes.

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Cloud Government Licensing Development 147

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

After Broadcom acquired VMware in late 2023 , many customers complained about huge price increases, but most cant seem to end the relationship. Concerns about price hikes surfaced when Broadcom moved VMware away from perpetual licensing terms and onto a subscription model that bundles multiple products together.

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Vmware Comparison Virtualization Disaster Recovery 287

Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

So far, the $60 billion Broadcom-VMware deal has led to some layoffs , VMware licensing changes, production rationalizations, and shifts to the partner program. VMware stung by defections and layoffs after Broadcom close November 30, 2023 : Layoffs are inevitable after an acquisition as companies deal with overlap and redundancy.

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Vmware Symantec Licensing Enterprise 418

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2023

We’ve gathered eight instances of big tech failures that struck companies and other organizations in 2023. Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems.

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Backup Airlines Licensing Oracle 345

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 3, 2024

The stories abound about pricing increases following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware in late 2023. A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. VMware has also announced that perpetual licenses are no longer an option. An increase of 300%.

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Vmware Licensing Cloud Virtualization 214

Network World

JULY 31, 2024

Amazon is suing Nokia, accusing the networking giant of having violated a dozen of Amazon’s cloud patents. It is quite possible that Nokia may have forced Amazon’s hand to file this lawsuit given that Nokia sued Amazon for patent violations in October 2023. The patents cited cover a wide range of core cloud elements.

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Cloud Virtualization Network Data Center 370

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With its new Business Data Cloud, SAP wants to help enterprises unify data held in its own systems with that in other vendors applications: Its goal is to expedite advanced analytics and AI use cases. Although enterprises can continue using Datasphere for now, SAP clearly wants them to move to Business Data Cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

SAP is doubling the time between major releases of S/4HANA Cloud private edition from one year to two — at the same time promising to release new feature packs every six months or so to keep up the pace of innovation. The changes will take effect with the 2023 release of software, which is now generally available.

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SAP Cloud Licensing Fractional CTO 317

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud. Cloud costs continue to be a top concern for CIOs,” says Dave McCarthy, analyst at IDC.

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Strategy Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO 351

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Here’s some of the top AI news CIOs will want to take away from Microsoft Ignite 2023. With the name change will come new capabilities, including — for organizations using Microsoft’s Entra cloud-based identity management service — the ability to protect commercial data used within the chatbot.

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Microsoft Meeting Enterprise Enterprise 338

Forrester IT

APRIL 10, 2023

Plan Now for Major Changes to Oracle Java Licensing Costs Oracle has again changed licensing rules for its widely used Java product. On Jan 23, 2023, the company introduced a new license metric, the SE Universal Subscription.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2023

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs.

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Hotels Cloud Data Center Energy 362

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2025

Shadow IT can create several problems, he says, including software license violations and security holes. Erik Gfesser, an IT consultant and former director at Deloitte, says hes seen enterprises running hundreds of unauthorized apps and software libraries when he engages with them. Some organizations are too strict, however, Gfesser adds.

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Fractional CTO Study Company Enterprise 325

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The project involved replacing the city councils long-standing SAP system with Oracle Cloud. Licensing and customization fees added further strain to the budget. There are multiple reports including one from a manager at BCC highlighting the discrepancies at the Council, way back in June 2023.

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Oracle Vendor Management Government System 227

Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

She started out as senior director of engineering and climbed the ranks to excel at numerous positions, including senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos Cloud, Compute, and IoT business, chief strategy officer, and general manager of applications. Fun fact: She is a licensed English-as-a-Second Language teacher.

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Network Industry Oracle Education 390

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2024

Rohit Badlaney, General Manager of IBM Cloud Product and Industry Platforms, brings more than two decades of experience in his role leading strategy, product management, design, and go-to-market for IBM Cloud. Badlaney believes that IBM stands out among other hyperscalers for being the destination for VMware workloads in the cloud.

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Vmware IBM Cloud Enterprise 290

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 27, 2023

First came the carrot of lower costs in the cloud with the bundled Rise with SAP offering. SAP’s newest innovations and capabilities will only be delivered in SAP public cloud and SAP private cloud using RISE with SAP as the enabler,” CEO Christian Klein told analysts during a conference call to discuss the company’s Q2 results.

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SAP Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 244

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

A 2023 VMware report found that 90% of organizations agree that Kubernetes technology is transforming the way their business operates. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is one such solution. Explore how VMware Cloud Foundation can drive efficiency, innovation, and cost reduction for your organization visit our website to get started.

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Vmware Virtualization Architecture Applications 173

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

HPE Aruba Networking is coming off a very strong Q2 2023 with our Intelligent Edge revenue reaching $1.3 The new service packs will be orderable later in 2023. billion , up 50% from the prior-year period.

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Data Center Cloud Data Network 246

Network World

JUNE 24, 2024

The MSASE platform is aimed at helping channel partners more efficiently deliver Cato’s SASE Cloud Platform , which combines threat prevention, data protection, and incident detection and response, to their customers. It enables multi-tenancy, immediate access to new features, and centralized management capabilities geared for MSPs.

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Network Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 370

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

Microsoft has realized that every cloud, not just Microsoft Azure, has a silver lining, and that many clients use other cloud services, so it makes sense not to limit their market, UK-based analyst Phil Brunkard said today. However, even with these deals, Microsoft is still under the microscope, especially in Spain.”

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Microsoft Cloud Licensing Government 308

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Bahrain EDB As cloud adoption grows, its impact on economies and businesses is starting to show that digital transformation can make good on the utopian promises of innovation and improved public services. Those who demand to see hard facts that prove the power of cloud should examine Bahrain. So why did AWS select Bahrain?

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Cloud Disaster Recovery Government Study 276

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

CIOs have a tough balance to strike: On one hand, theyre tasked with maintaining a large number of applications research from Salesforce shows that in 2023 organizations were using 1,061 different applications in varying stages of age, all the while maintaining interoperability and security and reducing overall spend.

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How To Licensing SAP Enterprise 130

Network World

JULY 1, 2024

Nutanix has pivoted from selling rigid, preconfigured appliances to offering enterprise customers a flexible, software-defined platform for managing hybrid, multi-cloud environments. “As Nutanix’s HCI solution enables the movement of apps and data from on-prem to multiple clouds – seamlessly, securely and easily.”

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Vmware Dell Cloud Licensing 282

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2024

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps have come together to completely reshape the cloud landscape over the last few years. It lets DevOps teams use descriptive versioning to define and deploy topologies, networks, VMs, and servers within cloud environments. In fact, they already have a competing open source IaC tool in Ansible.

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Devops Open Source Licensing IBM 282

Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

VergeIOs deployment profile is currently 70% on premises and about 30% via bare-metal service providers, with a particularly strong following among cloud service providers that host applications for their customers. The software requires direct hardware access due to its low-level integration with physical resources.

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Virtualization Network Vmware Data Center 195

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella directed the company’s security team to boost a bounty program for AI and cloud bugs during one of Microsoft’s weekly Secure Future Initiative meetings. GeekWire File Photo) If security is really more important than everything else, will it be in the keynote? government officials.

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Microsoft Security Cloud Programming 110

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

SAP has given CIOs another reason to consider moving to the cloud: rising support costs for on-premises software. The company will raise the cost of its SAP Standard Support, SAP Enterprise Support, and SAP Product Support for Large Enterprises contracts for existing customers from January 1, 2023.

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SAP Licensing Cloud Software 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

Its akin to GUI, internet servers, and cloud-native databases all being introduced into the app stack simultaneously. He said that he sees this as Microsofts way of leveraging the Azure cloud to make it easier to stitch their pieces together. Thirty years of change is being compressed into three years, Nadella said.

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Microsoft CTO Hire Research Enterprise 195

Network World

MAY 30, 2024

Vijay Bhagavath, IDC research vice president for cloud and data center networks, cautions against overreacting. Gartner analyst Jon Forest adds, “They want to be much more than a networking company as far as selling boxes and licensing software. In 2023, Cisco’s Ethernet switch revenues increased 22.2%

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Data Center Network Security LAN 432

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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Vendor Management Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 340

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2022, Microsoft announced the “end of innovation” for Dynamics GP, and in 2023, it said that no new licenses would be sold after April 2025. Microsoft isn’t the only company attempting to lure its legacy customers into the cloud. The message from ERP vendors is clear: get on our cloud now, or else. ‘Or

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SAP Oracle Microsoft Cloud 325

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the recent Gartner® Hype Cycle TM for Zero Trust Networking, 2023 report , which evaluates the current status of 19 of “the most relevant and hyped” zero-trust technologies, the cybersecurity industry analysts made a somewhat startling pronouncement about secure access service edge (SASE). 3 Why the trough of disillusionment?

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WAN Network Security Cloud 334

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In April of 2023, Censuswide conducted a survey of 608 US respondents from companies with $250m+ revenue. As vendors move toward cloud-based, subscription models , IT leaders feel pressured to give up their owned, perpetual licenses for mission-critical software. The results spoke for themselves.

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Survey CTO Hire Fractional CTO Licensing 321

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

But for the past several years, Kohl’s has made a big push to the cloud as part of a “technology modernization” that Gaffney says makes the most of machine learning, personalization, enhanced demographic data sets, and “hyper-localization” insights to deliver the most relevant merchandise to local stores.

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Fractional CTO Data Licensing Retail 264

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2024

According to IDC’s North American Tools/Vendors Consolidation Survey (November 2023), organizations plan to add even more security tools to their arsenals over time. They can also identify redundant applications or licenses. Nearly 60% of organizations began consolidation efforts in 2023. The short answer is “no.”

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Tools Security Disaster Recovery Survey 312