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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

The software spending increases will be driven by several factors, including price increases, expanding license bases, and some AI investments , says John Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner. “We We have companies trying to build out the data centers that will run gen AI and trying to train AI,” he says.

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Cato Networks launches managed SASE partner platform

Network World

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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The digital transformation of an island nation: how Bahrain rose to lead cloud adoption in the GCC Region

CIO Business Intelligence

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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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

The system, intended to streamline payments and HR processes, is now unlikely to function correctly before 2026 four years after its 2022 launch. The project involved replacing the city councils long-standing SAP system with Oracle Cloud. Licensing and customization fees added further strain to the budget.

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Salesforce mulls consumption pricing for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

28, Morgan Stanley Analyst Keith Weiss noted that with Salesforce promising big productivity gains from AI agents — deflecting up to 90% of calls from human agents — investors are worried that Salesforce customers will need to license fewer seats. During the CRM giant’s 2QFY25 earnings call on Aug.

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Transform your technology and accelerate business outcomes with NTT DATA’s Technology Solutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Company infrastructure ranges from on-premises to the cloud or a hybrid approach. At the same time, many on-premises applications are moving to the cloud. For example, our License Management Assessment helps you get the full benefit of your infrastructure investments by simplifying governance, risk mitigation and cost control.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

As a result of all this experience, companies should know what to do to make sure they’re using properly-licensed code, how to check for vulnerabilities, and how to keep everything patched and up-to-date. Weird new license terms The landscape of different open source license types is complicated enough. Here are the top ones.