Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

When joining F5 , she reflected on her career and said, F5s evolution from hardware to software and SaaS mirrors my own professional journey and passion for transformation. > Fun fact: She is a licensed English-as-a-Second Language teacher. When she landed her first role as head of IT, she had five-month-old twins.)

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Network Industry Oracle Education 390

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Oracle is collocating its Oracle database hardware (including Oracle Exadata) and software in Microsoft Azure data centers, giving customers direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) via Azure.

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Oracle Microsoft Data Center Licensing 279

Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

has expanded its Phi line of open-source language models with the introduction of two new algorithms designed for multimodal processing and hardware efficiency: Phi-4-mini and Phi-4-multimodal. Both Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini are licensed under the MIT license and will be made available through Hugging Face , allowing for commercial use.

Microsoft 73

Microsoft Licensing Hardware Open Source 73

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 30, 2024

History suggests hyperscalers, which give away basic LLMs while licensing subscriptions for more powerful models with enterprise-grade features, will find more ways to pass along the immense costs of their buildouts to businesses. Business and regulatory requirements will also influence which platforms and architecture you pick.

Data 306

Data Dell Open Source Applications 306

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2024

Organizations that make their architectures hybrid-by-design build a full stack approach for data sharing, resiliency and security with support from consulting experts and ecosystem partners to enable secured modernization for their workloads. This, Badlaney says, is where a hybrid-by-design strategy is crucial.

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Vmware IBM Cloud Enterprise 290

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

A pragmatic and structured architectural approach when moving to the cloud is critical,” says William Peldzus, senior director and Center of Excellence head with enterprise consulting firm Capgemini Americas. They may find there’s software that can have multiple licenses added for more than one team to use across the company,” he notes.

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Cloud Fractional CTO Enterprise Enterprise 325

Network World

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The AI model providers (with one exception noted below) are also eager to promote licensing of their generative AI tools. You can’t buy hardware in anticipation of your application needs,” one CIO said. Good GPUs need fast memory, a fast bus architecture, and fast I/O and network adapters. Ah, networks.

Enterprise 397

Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Training 397

CTOvision

MAY 16, 2017

Other capabilities include: Hardware Based Packet Telemetry. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock). Unique hardware filter tables for each adapter hosted IP address. Hardware based firewall – Filtering packets in both directions at a record rate of 250 nanoseconds, offering the fastest filter execution available on the market.

Software 194

Software Software Data Center Hardware 194

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

West Monroe’s Tanowitz agrees, saying, “There’s cloud spend where immature governance approaches have resulted in excess consumption that can be reduced when a holistic cloud architecture approach is taken.” Audit all contracts IT organizations almost always pay for more than the business actually needs for hardware, software, and networking.

Fractional CTO 347

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Budget Licensing 347

Network World

MAY 30, 2024

Gartner analyst Jon Forest adds, “They want to be much more than a networking company as far as selling boxes and licensing software. The problem for Cisco is that ‘normal’ in networking hardware is not a strong growth market anymore. This is not a product, but a new architecture—the first version of something new,” said Patel.

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Data Center Network Security LAN 432

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

As the Boston-based insurance company’s journey to the cloud has unfolded, it has also maintained a select set of datacenters from which to run legacy applications more economically than they would on the cloud, as well as software from vendors that make licensing on the cloud less attractive. It’s a big number,” he says.

Cloud 363

Cloud Insurance Applications Data 363

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This rapid adoption, while driving innovation, has also led to overloaded IT architectures that are fast and automated but often fragile and complex. This might involve consolidating systems, rationalizing licenses, and addressing technical debt. This requires close alignment between IT and business strategy.

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Disaster Recovery Strategy CTO Business Continuity 270

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2023

Meta released Llama 2 in July and it stands out among other open source generative AI projects because of its size and capability, and also because of its license; companies can use it for free, even commercially. The only restriction is that companies with over 700 million active daily users will need to obtain a special license from Meta.

Open Source 246

Open Source Training Licensing Enterprise 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

Each service pack includes the required switching hardware, licenses, management software (HPE Aruba Networking Central), and support components, along with Customer Experience Management (CEM), all bundled in a 3- or- 5-year monthly subscription.

Data Center 246

Data Center Cloud Data Network 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Cloud-first applications support a manageable OpEx cost model, metered like a utility, as opposed to requiring significant upfront capital investments in infrastructure and software licenses. Cloud Architecture, Enterprise Applications This post is brought to you by AWS and CIO Marketing Services.

Applications 347

Applications Enterprise Enterprise Strategy 347

TM Forum

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Although it’s difficult for MTC to quantify the amount of technical debt it had accumulated, the company notes that it was clearly spending more and more time on increasing hardware requirements and adapting systems to meet new demands from the business. Open Digital Architecture (ODA). It wasn’t a sustainable approach.

Cloud 130

Cloud Architecture Hardware System 130

Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 28, 2024

You know the drill: software licenses, subscription fees, consulting fees, and hardware infrastructure. They had everything mapped out: software licenses, new cameras and sensors, integration services, and training. Then, there’s the data architecture overhaul. Let me give you a real example.

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Budget Government System Data 130

CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

Other capabilities include: Hardware Based Packet Telemetry. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock). Unique hardware filter tables for each adapter hosted IP address. Hardware based firewall – Filtering packets in both directions at a record rate of 250 nanoseconds, offering the fastest filter execution available on the market.

Software 151

Software Software Data Center Hardware 151

Dataconomy

MARCH 26, 2025

Just a massive set of model weights, an MIT license, and a few technical whispers that were enough to set the AI community ablaze. DeepSeek, however, opted for its trademark under-the-radar approach, quietly uploading 641 GB of data under an MIT license. While some innovations arrive with fanfare, this release was different.

Open Source 50

Open Source Data Center Licensing Research 50

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

“The AI solution stack varies according to how it will be used, which implies one must have intimate understanding of the AI use case — your AI workers and the end domain in which they work — and how to map the needs of the use case to the silicon, software, system hardware, and services.”

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Enterprise 3D Training 130

Kitaboo

MAY 19, 2020

In addition, EDRLab is also the driving force behind the LCP (Licensed Content Protection) system, which is a significant new development of Readium. Create a cross-platform native code software development kit (SDK), which you can use to build native applications across different hardware platforms. Architecture of Readium.

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Architecture eBook Open Source Applications 78

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. “People better understand the charges, and [they] better negotiate costs.

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Strategy Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO 351

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. The DPDK is BSD licensed and source code is available from Intel. Verplanke next reviews some of the I/O optimizations and architecture of the Xeon E5 2600 series platform. Next, he discusses the evolution of network devices so far.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 131

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2023

Ranjit Satyanath, CTO, Hippo Stores istock The one-stop-shop for construction materials, including steel, cement, bricks, hardware, paint, tiles, electricals, and sanitaryware, caters to both professional construction companies and individual consumers. Hippo Stores opened its first outlet in New Delhi in 2021. Digital Transformation

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Retail Construction Agile Applications 246

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2023

Christened SalesHub+, the application was custom built with state-of-the-art software, hardware, and connectivity enablement to facilitate order, delivery, and inventory management, as well as timecard, tasks, in-store activities, and passive tracking, all in one place.

Retail 246

Retail Mobile Applications Authentication 246

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 27, 2022

As the Boston-based insurance company’s journey to the cloud has unfolded, it has also maintained a select set of datacenters from which to run legacy applications more economically than they would on the cloud, as well as software from vendors that make licensing on the cloud less attractive. It’s a big number,” he says.

Cloud 246

Cloud Insurance Applications Data 246

The Verge

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s the first mobile system-on-a-chip to include a GPU with AMD’s RDNA 2 graphics architecture, enabling features like hardware-accelerated ray tracing. The two companies first announced a licensing deal in 2019, then AMD confirmed last year that Samsung’s “next flagship mobile SoC” would use RDNA 2.

Mobile 94

Mobile Architecture Licensing Hardware 94

Dataconomy

MARCH 20, 2025

Its innovative data flow architecture enables users to execute complex statistical analyses and create sophisticated models efficiently. It uses a graph-based architecture that organizes data flow, optimizing computations for large-scale parallel processing. license, it quickly gained traction among developers and researchers.

Open Source 36

Open Source Architecture Hardware Applications 36

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2023

However, by consolidating onto a converged endpoint management (XEM) platform , these teams can finally serve the greater good — reducing risk and licensing costs, increasing productivity, and enhancing the end-user experience. The result is extra cost, complexity, and security risk.

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Licensing SAP Security Tools 130

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for example, uses multiagent systems to ensure its clean rooms stay clean so nothing contaminates flight hardware bound for other planets. The company was paying half a million a year in license fees, says Joseph Ours, Centric’s director of AI solutions, and there was still a lot of manual work involved.

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System Data Fractional CTO Examples 340

Dataconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2024

From the latest 5th generation EPYC processors to next-gen Instinct accelerators, AMD is doubling down on high-performance hardware for AI workloads. Su noted, “We thought about it from the architectural standpoint—how do we build the industry’s broadest portfolio of CPUs that covers both cloud and enterprise workloads?”

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Hardware Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 45

The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

Many companies that once used to rely on big-name chipmakers like AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm have spent much of the last decade building out their own internal chip design teams to lessen their reliance on third-party companies and to better integrate their hardware and software.

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Apple Engineering Data Center Intel 120

Dataconomy

JANUARY 27, 2025

Image: DeepSeek In purely factual terms, Janus-Pro-7B is licensed under a permissive MIT framework , with added usage guidelines from DeepSeek. The result is a versatile framework that excels at multimodal tasks, thanks to its specialized yet cohesive architecture. How to use DeepSeek Janus-Pro-7B?

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Meeting Open Source Guidelines Licensing 48

TM Forum

JUNE 13, 2022

Fortunately, the move to 5G standalone architectures will require a great deal less infrastructure investment and more IT spending, which on the whole is less extensive. The cost of these licenses in many countries broke all previous records, and MNOs registered a great deal of disquiet. architectures. Spectrum costs.

Cloud 130

Cloud Network B2B Architecture 130

GeekWire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This system is designed fully in-house to optimize for speed, cost and reliability, and the entire architecture has worked flawlessly from the very start.” “Per their FCC license , Kuiper has to launch about half of their constellation, or about 1,600 satellites, by the summer of 2026.

Network 133

Network System Architecture Data 133

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

One does not have to buy new hardware. We license it to the companies where they can run it and see the results themselves. For a large enterprise architecture, we need a control plane and a data plane, and we need to separate the control plane from the data plane. What would the new protocol have been?

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Enterprise Enterprise Banking Software 242

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And that’s before we get into Microsoft’s game streaming service, xCloud, which could mean you won’t need any Xbox hardware at all to play many of the latest games. It’s not unusual for console manufacturers to offer a couple of different hardware options at launch, but normally, the differences are minor. teraflops of GPU power.

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Hardware Microsoft Examples Storage 110