Network World

APRIL 1, 2025

Enterprises know everything is not moving to the cloud that was the lesson of 2024, and it triggered some extreme reactions that fueled the cloud repatriation stories we all heard. Its that some things are, and should be, moving to the cloud. The top strategy so far is what one enterprise calls the Cloud Team.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 1, 2024

Corporate cloud strategies that yesterday centered on the unglamorous transition of legacy apps from out of the data center, along with some new cloud-native apps, must now incorporate transformative technologies with radically different value propositions — all without breaking the IT budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Sastry Durvasula, chief operating, information, and digital officer at TIAA, firmly believes consumption-based pricing is the best model for business organizations AI strategies. Most organizations expect public cloud IaaS to be their primary source for gen AI infrastructure, IDCs survey shows. But it doesnt have to be that way.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

There are a lot of different components that make up a cloud deployment. How many of those components, across multiple cloud environments, is the typical enterprise actually backing up for proper disaster recovery ? Thats a question that cloud infrastructure automation startup ControlMonkey is helping enterprises to help answer.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Regardless of where they are on their AI journey, organizations need to be preparing existing data centers and cloud strategies for changing requirements, and have a plan for how to adopt AI, with agility and resilience, as strategies evolve,” said Jeetu Patel, chief product officer at Cisco.

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Network World

JUNE 3, 2024

The Singapore government is advancing a green data center strategy in response to rising demand for computing resources, driven in large part by resource-hungry AI projects. Data centers can potentially benefit from 2% to 5% energy savings for every 1C increase in operating temperature.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Juniper Networks continues to fill out its core AI AI-Native Networking Platform, this time with a focus on its Apstra data center software. New to the platform is Juniper Apstra Cloud Services, a suite of cloud-based, AI-enabled applications for the data center, released along with the new 5.0

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Options include getting off VMs altogether and shifting workloads to the public cloud, or going to a container-based platform like Red Hat OpenShift. Microsoft Azure Stack HCI For Microsoft shops, Azure Stack HCI is an option that leverages the Azure cloud and Microsofts Hyper-V hypervisor.

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Network World

AUGUST 6, 2024

Rising costs, AI concerns and staffing challenges are among the top issues facing data center leaders in 2024, according to Uptime Institute’s latest survey data. Data center teams are working to balance higher rack power density and future capacity needs with capital investments and staffing limitations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Du, one of the largest telecommunications operators in the Middle East, is deploying Oracle Alloy to offer cloud and sovereign AI services to business, government, and public sector organizations in the UAE. However, with the rapid adoption of AI and cloud technologies, concerns over security and data privacy are paramount.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

And while the maturity of those practices varies, large organizations at the forefront of FinOps are scaling up and out, driving the cloud optimization practice into new areas of IT, including as a way to get a handle on spiraling AI costs. And its FinOps principles arent limited to public cloud or SaaS.

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Information Week

AUGUST 26, 2024

As cloud services continue to scale, the strategic selection of data center sites has become a critical component of successful cloud infrastructure expansion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 1, 2025

The successful execution of AerCaps growth through acquisition strategy involved many moving parts, among them merging two IT departments, a process that has plagued other high profile M&A projects in the past. Business strategy must drive IT decision making Business-first pragmatism is the key to understanding what makes Koletzki tick.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Oracle has partnered with telecommunications service provider Telmex-Triara to open a second region in Mexico in an effort to keep expanding its data center footprint as it eyes more revenue from AI and generative AI-based workloads. billion quarterly in cloud infrastructure. Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Generative AI

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Network World

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Coming up: VMware Explore Barcelona, Fira Gran Via November 4-7, 2024 VMware Explore 2024 attendees saw an emphasis on private AI and cloud repatriation as key strategies for enterprises. Despite the interest in private, the cloud migration is still a hot topic. VMware Explore 2024 Broadcom bolsters VMware Cloud Foundation Nov.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 23, 2024

Cloud has driven enterprise IT transformation with speed and scale that was simply impossible with data centers alone. But operating models haven’t always kept up — and the mismatch means that old operating models impede the optimization of cloud IT.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper.

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Network World

JUNE 17, 2024

Check out our calendar of upcoming network, I&O and data center conferences, and let us know if we’re missing any of your favorites.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs. Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% in 2025, but software spending — four times larger than the data center segment — will grow by 14% next year, to $1.24

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

IT leader and former CIO Stanley Mwangi Chege has heard executives complain for years about cloud deployments, citing rapidly escalating costs and data privacy challenges as top reasons for their frustrations. In that case, the board’s bank was troubled by the volume of unexpected fees charged by cloud providers.

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Network World

JANUARY 2, 2025

For starters, the AWS disclosure confirms that hyperscalers are developing more and more of their own custom silicon , according to Patrick Moorhead, CEO of Moor Insights & Strategies. Gravitons success could impact Ampere, which makes Arm-based processors for both the enterprise and the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2024

The AI revolution is driving demand for massive computing power and creating a data center shortage, with data center operators planning to build more facilities. But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say.

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Network World

MARCH 20, 2025

The deal, which sees Oracle and Carlyle selling their stakes in Ampere, strengthens SoftBanks position in the growing market for AI-optimized processors as major cloud providers increasingly look beyond traditional x86 architecture. SoftBank Group has announced plans to acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The program, known as Project Transcendence, marks a significant push by the Kingdom to develop a robust AI ecosystem that can rival leading tech hubs, including neighbouring United Arab Emirates and other global technology centers. In recent years, the Kingdom has set up research centers, ministries, and educational programs focused on AI.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Aviz Networks provides support and services to enable organizations to adopt the open source SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) network operating system. In the past year, Aviz Networks has seen solid progress, with the company reporting a 400% increase in revenue compared to the previous year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

billion (£10 billion) to build one of Europe’s largest AI data centers in Northumberland, UK, the British Prime Minister’s office said in a statement. The project is expected to enhance the UK’s AI infrastructure, catering to the vast data storage demands of AI technologies. US private equity giant Blackstone is investing $13.3

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Network World

JULY 1, 2024

Alibaba’s cloud computing unit, otherwise known as Alibaba Cloud or Aliyun, has decided to cease data center operations in India and Australia. “As The data centers in these two countries, located in Mumbai and Sydney, are expected to shut by July and September respectively.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Negli ultimi tempi, le strategie cloud sono andate incontro a un cambiamento radicale, con i CIO che stanno diventando sempre più propensi a sfruttare al meglio le formule multiple. Molte strategie ‘multicloud’ non sono effettivamente tali. Si limitano a prevedere carichi di lavoro in più cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2025

To keep ahead of the curve, CIOs should continuously evaluate their business and technology strategies, adjusting them as necessary to address rapidly evolving technology, business, and economic practices. Over the next 12 months, IT leaders can look forward to even more innovations, as well as some serious challenges.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

I am happy to announce that my coverage area now includes Data Center Services, Infrastructure Outsourcing, and Semiconductors. In terms of my interests in these areas: Now that organizations understand what use cases work best in the public cloud, I am interested […]

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2024

AWS, Microsoft, and Google are going nuclear to build and operate mega data centers better equipped to meet the increasingly hefty demands of generative AI. Earlier this year, AWS paid $650 million to purchase Talen Energy’s Cumulus Data Assets, a 960-megawatt nuclear-powered data center on site at Talen’s Susquehanna, Penn.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Yet, despite its potential, cloud computing has not fully leveraged these advantages in managing complex cloud environments. Much like finance, HR, and sales functions, organizations aim to streamline cloud operations to address resource limitations and standardize services.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Edge data centers include hardware, software, applications, data management, connectivity, gateways, security, and advanced analytics. Larger ones resemble traditional data centers. Download our editors’ PDF edge data center buyer’s guide today!] [Download our editors’ PDF edge data center buyer’s guide today!]

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Historically, data center virtualization pioneer VMware was seen as a technology leader, but recent business changes have stirred consternation since its acquisition by Broadcom in late 2023. Many customers remain wary, prompting IT leaders to explore alternatives and adjust their strategies regarding VMware products.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

research firm Vanson Bourne to survey 650 global IT, DevOps, and Platform Engineering decision-makers on their enterprise AI strategy. Most AI workloads are deployed in private cloud or on-premises environments, driven by data locality and compliance needs. Nutanix commissioned U.K.

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