GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Matt Garman, AWS CEO, announces the new AI tool for migrating.NET applications to Linux at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday morning. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) LAS VEGAS — Amazon has a new use for AI: dumping Microsoft Windows.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At Quantum World Congress on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it and partner Quantinuum had broken a record in the creation of logical qubits. In addition, Microsoft also announced that it is working with partner Atom Computing to build what it described as the world’s most powerful quantum machine.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

They are using the considerable power of this fast-evolving technology to tackle the common challenges of cloud modernization, particularly in projects that involve the migration and modernization of legacy applications a key enabler of digital and business transformation. In this context, GenAI can be used to speed up release times.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The proliferation of open-source AI models more than 1 million are currently listed on the Hugging Face portal is driving innovation particularly at the application end. We can expect attention to shift this year from model developers to those building business applications harnessing this low-cost environment for innovation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

Strategic use of hyper-converged technology to alleviate challenges Addressing these concerns, IDC, together with Dell Technologies and Microsoft, recently held a discussion on how most of these challenges can be addressed with the strategic use of hyper-converged technologies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Power BI is Microsoft’s interactive data visualization and analytics tool for business intelligence (BI). Visualize all the services you use Power BI has hundreds of content packs, templates, and integrations for hundreds of data services, apps, and services — and not just Microsoft ones such as Dynamics 365 and SQL Server.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 19, 2024

Microsoft has added generative artificial intelligence and other enhanced features to its quantum-computing platform as part of a larger strategy to deliver the game-changing technology to a broader range of users — in this case, the scientific community.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2023

We spoke with Siddhartha Gupta, Global Head of Application Modernization on Azure at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , about this trend and what financial services organizations need to do to improve their capacity for agility and innovation. How can cloud-native applications help financial organizations drive innovation at scale?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It’s unsurprising to see legacy providers shifting their business models from perpetual software licensing to subscription-based pricing. But lately, some licensees of virtual desktops and applications have been confronted with abrupt changes and even forced to accept and pay for unwanted features. Some do it with a measure of grace.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Professional services leaders are particularly sensitive to the importance of the tools and technologies they use, with 85% saying they significantly impact the quality of their work, according to an August 2023 survey of 213 of them by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

By moving applications back on premises, or using on-premises or hosted private cloud services, CIOs can avoid multi-tenancy while ensuring data privacy. For example, Mosaic recently created a data-heavy Mosaic GPT safety model for mining operations on Microsofts Bing platform, and is about to roll that out in a pilot.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI. That’s risky.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

They combine public cloud services from AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, for example. However, if you work with Office 365 and other Windows-based applications, Microsofts Azure is the better choice. The results are stored in a database and accessed by the Azure application as needed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This year’s Microsoft Ignite developer conference might as well be called AIgnite, with over half of the almost 600 sessions featuring artificial intelligence in some shape or form. Here’s some of the top AI news CIOs will want to take away from Microsoft Ignite 2023. The new Copilot will be generally available from Dec.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In harmony with that mindset are three guiding principles to drive digital transformation: Cloud First, based on a strategic partnership with Microsoft using Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365, among others. Then there’s Standardization First to harmonize global business processes and create a leaner IT landscape.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Especially with companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Salesforce and others in the news recently with announcements of agentic AI and agent creation tools and capabilities. Microsoft recently announced the release of Copilot agents. Microsoft is describing AI agents as the new applications for an AI-powered world.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Microsoft will end product support and updates for Dynamics GP, its legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) product for small and medium businesses, on September 30, 2029, the company announced on Tuesday. Microsoft is committed to ensuring we offer robust and innovative solutions to meet these needs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Emmelibri Group, a subsidy of Italian publishing holding company Messaggerie Italiane, is moving applications to the cloud as part of a complete digital transformation with a centralized IT department. Data is the heart of our business, and its centralization has been fundamental for the group,” says Emmelibri CIO Luca Paleari.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

I like the way Oracle is embedding AI into the ERP and SCM Fusion applications, and I like the opportunity for the smaller, quarterly updates to the apps versus the big-bang-every-five-years-upgrades to other systems,” Neumeier explains. This “put some structure around data quality and data security,” she says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2024

In the wake of the widespread outage caused by a defective update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon cybersecurity platform, Delta Airlines is among the first enterprises to come forward to demand compensation from CrowdStrike and Microsoft for the enormous losses caused by the interruption of its flights during the failure. A shift ahead?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Organizations can maintain high-risk parts of their legacy VMware infrastructure while exploring how an alternative hypervisor can run business-critical applications and build new capabilities,” said Carter. It’s the ongoing challenge of integrating legacy systems and applications with next-gen technologies and solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

At its Microsoft Ignite 2024 show in Chicago this week, Microsoft and industry partner experts showed off the power of small language models (SLMs) with a new set of fine-tuned, pre-trained AI models using industry-specific data. The company notes that customers can also use the models to configure agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 19, 2024

This week’s Hlth Europe show in Amsterdam saw the European launch of the Microsoft-backed Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network (TRAIN) consortium that wants to meet this need. Hovering over all this, of course, is Microsoft as the technology partner, styling itself as its enabler rather than leader but still an important influence.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2025

Oracle has added a new AI Agent Studio to its Fusion Cloud business applications, at no additional cost, in an effort to retain its enterprise customers as rival software vendors ramp up their agent-based offerings with the aim of garnering more market share. billion in 2024, is expected to grow at a CAGR of 45.8%

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 11, 2025

ServiceNows strong enterprise application suite, combined with its platform, is helping it move quickly toward becoming a major player in this space, and this deal will accelerate that progress even further. This acquisition is another step in that direction.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Second-generation AI PCs just hitting the market in 2025 will offer a substantial upgrade in performance, providing Silicon-on-Chip (SOC) NPUs that exceed 40 TOPS and 16GB of RAM requirements for the Copilot+ PC branding designated by Microsoft. AI PCs can run LLMs locally but for inferencing only not training models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Key components of this collaboration include the development of Arabic-language AI models, which will address a substantial gap in AI accessibility for the region, and other localized AI applications tailored to Saudi Arabia’s needs. billion to expand its MENA business by launching new cloud areas in the Kingdom.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

CIOs must take an active role in educating their C-suite counterparts about the strategic applications of technologies like, for example, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain, and cloud computing. He has held executive roles at AIG, Merrill Lynch and Citicorp, where he led business and IT portfolio transformations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Microsoft will invest €3.2 billion in Germany by the end of 2025 to double the artificial intelligence and cloud capacities of its data centers there. Germany has always been at the forefront of technological and innovative change, Smith said, and this is also evident in terms of AI when he analyses the data available to Microsoft.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

In June 2023, Gartner researchers said, data and analytics leaders must leverage the power of LLMs with the robustness of knowledge graphs for fault-tolerant AI applications. Microsoft announced its GraphRAG project in February then open sourced it in July. But thats true of a lot of gen AI applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

AWS, Microsoft, and Google may continue to dominate the enterprise cloud market, but a raft of second-tier cloud providers are proving to be valuable partners for organizations and innovators with specialized workloads and use cases especially in the burgeoning AI era. Athos Therapeutics is one such enterprise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For instance, Capital One successfully transitioned from mainframe systems to a cloud-first strategy by gradually migrating critical applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Establishing clear governance structures to oversee modernization efforts ensured alignment with business objectives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Google on Wednesday told the European Union (EU) that Microsoft is illegally using its dominant market position in Windows to force enterprises to use its Azure cloud service or face a 400% price penalty and a denial of upgrades and security patches. It doesn’t address the particulars of Google’s filing,” he said. The answer is probably yes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Microsoft, which offers Whisper as part of its cloud computing services, advises companies incorporating it in the solutions they offer to “obtain appropriate legal advice to review your solution, particularly if you will use it in sensitive or high-risk applications.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As part of MMTech’s unifying strategy, Beswick chose to retire the data centers and form an “enterprisewide architecture organization” with a set of standards and base layers to develop applications and workloads that would run on the cloud, with AWS as the firm’s primary cloud provider.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2024

MicroStrategy has added generative AI capabilities to HyperIntelligence, part of its One business intelligence platform, making it possible for workers to access data using natural language by asking questions from within any web application.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

When Microsoft posted its quarterly earnings last week, its CFO Amy Hood said that customers wanted more cloud compute for their AI workloads than the company could supply. Microsoft posted revenue of $61.9 billion for the quarter, up 17% year on year, of which $26.7

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