CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

The cloud has changed the IT and business worlds forever, and generally for the better. But when misused or abused the cloud can backfire, leading to a serious business setback or, in a worst-case situation, long-term competitive damage. Ensuing proper cloud use is essential in today’s high-stakes, fast-paced business environment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

A key differentiator for VMware Cloud Foundation as the industry-leading private cloud platform is flexibility. And our VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) partners are a vital component of this flexibility. It feels like a public cloud, but its a private cloud, and that is the benefit you get from VMware Cloud Foundation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

Although organizations have embraced microservices-based applications, IT leaders continue to grapple with the need to unify and gain efficiencies in their infrastructure and operations across both traditional and modern application architectures. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is one such solution.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In recent years, VMware has faced major headwinds: It migrated its clients from on-premises to public cloud, changed to a cloud-native application development paradigm, shifted to subscription licensing, had frequent cycles of M&A activities, and experienced unfavorable macroeconomic environments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

Liberty Mutual is one of the most experienced and advanced cloud adopters in the nation. And that is in no small part thanks to the vision of James McGlennon, who in his role as CIO of Liberty Mutual for past 17 years has led the charge to the cloud, analytics, and AI with a budget north of $2 billion.

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Cloud Insurance Applications Data 363

Network World

MAY 20, 2024

First, tool vendors sold them with perpetual licenses, which meant a long-term investment. Most network management tools are now available as SaaS solutions with a subscription license. Tools aren’t as “sticky“ as they once were For a variety of reasons, network management tools have historically been sticky in IT organizations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2024

For some organizations, shifting to the cloud has been a relatively quick race toward highly publicized benefits, such as scalability. The reality is we’ve been incrementally migrating certain applications, workloads, and processes to the cloud over a number of years. “The

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2024

“By expanding the availability of our software portfolio in AWS Marketplace, organizations around the world will have greater access to a streamlined way to procure many IBM AI and hybrid cloud offerings to help propel their business forward,” Nick Otto, Head of Global Strategic Partnerships at IBM, said in the statement.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Once enterprises commit to running business-critical applications in the cloud, they rarely move to another provider. The cost of migrating is simply too high, says Sid Nag, VP of cloud services and technology at Gartner. But doing this requires planning ahead early on, before moving an application to the cloud the first time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLennan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. This costs me about 1% of what it would cost” to license the technology through Microsoft.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This has meant updating cloud, networking, and security infrastructure to adapt to the new realities of hybrid work and a world where employees will need to connect to and access business applications from anywhere and from any device, in a secure manner. A key component of a SASE framework is SD-WAN.

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WAN Security Licensing Firewall 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. Companies that not only survived but thrived amidst the myriad business challenges show why cloud-first application deployment is a critical component of a retooled IT strategy.

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CTOvision

MARCH 13, 2017

Over the last decade, cloud computing has gone from being a buzzword to an essential component of web technology. Businesses, enticed away from traditional data center models by lower upfront capital costs and simpler solutions to scaling and reliability issues, have been adopting cloud technology in droves. IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

To fully capitalize on the cloud’s scalability and flexibility, most enterprises go beyond a simple lift-and-shift approach, instead injecting them with cloud-native capabilities — a strategy that sounds simple but can quickly prove complex. After all, as with many seemingly easy tasks, the devil is in the details.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLellan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. This costs me about 1% of what it would cost” to license the technology through Microsoft.

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Insurance Data Center Training Data 264

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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CTOvision

JUNE 18, 2014

Their core capabilities have been proven in delivery of high performance games via cloud services (their focus has been cloud-gaming). But imagine it is really a cloud-delivered capability. Mountain View, California— March 5, 2014 — OnLive, the leader in cloud gaming, today announces several exciting new innovations.

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Cloud Enterprise Enterprise Mobile 282

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As organizations of all stripes continue their migration to the cloud, they are coming face to face with sometimes perplexing cost issues, forcing them to think hard about how best to optimize workloads, what to migrate, and who exactly is responsible for what. It’s an issue that’s coming to the fore with the steady migration to the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But in many cases, the prospect of migrating to modern cloud native, open source languages 1 seems even worse. Greater integration and scalability: This modular architecture distributes tasks across multiple agents working in parallel, so Code Harbor can perform more work in less time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from traditional centralized data centers to distributed “centers of data.” billion , up 50% from the prior-year period.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

When we were taken private in 2015, we were a traditional software vendor, but the market was starting to embrace the cloud. Many of our customers had already started to move their applications and it made sense they would want to transition to data management in the cloud as well. The architecture was a means to get there.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2023

For many organizations large and small, the COVID-19 pandemic was the tipping point for cloud adoption. Unsurprisingly, more than half of enterprise IT spending in key market segments will shift to the cloud by 2025, according to Gartner. [1] However, the transformative benefits of cloud cannot be realized (or may even be negated!)

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Network Cloud How To WAN 242

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 27, 2022

Liberty Mutual is one of the most experienced and advanced cloud adopters in the nation. And that is in no small part thanks to the vision of James McGlennon, who in his role as CIO of Liberty Mutual for past 17 years has led the charge to the cloud, analytics, and AI with a budget north of $2 billion.

Cloud 246

Cloud Insurance Applications Data 246

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

SAP has agreed to buy German enterprise architecture management specialist LeanIX, hoping its early adoption of AI will help with the massive task of migrating customers still using SAP’s legacy software on premises to the more modern S/4HANA in the cloud. Christ also said generative AI is key to the company’s growth.

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SAP Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 291

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Looking ahead to a future in which customers will move their entire data center workloads to the cloud, Microsoft and Oracle on Thursday expanded their partnership. Ellison says the offering, dubbed Oracle Database@Azure, will help many of its customers fully migrate from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.

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Oracle Microsoft Data Center Licensing 280

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

CTOvision

JANUARY 13, 2015

MapReduce Geo, or MrGeo , is a geospatial toolkit designed to provide raster-based geospatial capabilities performable at scale by leveraging the power and functionality of cloud-based architecture. Analysis Big Data CTO DoD and IC Intelligence Community Open Source Cloud Computing NGA' Government Solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

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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Hardware Licensing Software Software 291

Network World

AUGUST 19, 2024

Will Broadcom raise prices, introduce new licensing models, or rationalize products? They are hungry for roadmap and architecture strategy sessions,” he says. Wakefield Research conducted a survey in June 2024 on behalf of CloudBolt Software, a provider of cloud financial management services.

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Vmware Survey Research Strategy 413

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 30, 2024

Beware the cloud-first playbook Hyperscalers are scaling out with the assumption that the majority of people will consume their LLMs and applications on their infrastructure and pay for ancillary services (private models, or other sandboxes boasting security and governance).

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Data Dell Open Source Applications 307

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 21, 2023

To do so, they are obfuscating reality, limiting transparency, and changing their historic business practices to make RISE appear financially superior to the traditional perpetual license models. Because of the way SAP is positioning RISE in the market, organizations must also re-evaluate their cloud strategy.

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SAP Architecture Licensing Cloud 245

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Check in on those cloud costs “Highly scalable technology combined with increasing use and increasing costs leads to runaway spending,” says Mark Troller, CIO at telecom expense management company Tangoe, which estimates that its clients overspend on cloud by as much as 40%.

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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. Can it catch the next wave of AI and generative AI, or will it be left behind?

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Data Center Network Security LAN 432

Cloud Musings

AUGUST 12, 2012

Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Texas Cloud Computing Lessons Learned. GovCloud Daily.

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