Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

The cloud market continues to grow at an accelerated rate, defying the economic pressures that are stifling the rest of the industry. Spending on cloud services is in turn driving massive investment in equipment , which is good for the IT vendors because the on-premises data center market is largely flat.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives. Lets talk about risk reduction.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS) intends to invest $100 billion in ramping up infrastructure for AI cloud services this year, surpassing the spending plans of rivals Microsoft and Google. And AWS isnt the only cloud service provider that is ramping up its investments into AI-enabled data centers.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Other members of the consortium include Broadcom, Dell, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, Meta, Oracle, Microsoft and Red Hat. The group wants to improve compatibility between different hardware and software platforms, simplify software development, and identify “new architectural requirements and functions.”

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

IBM, Microsoft and Boeing all had big announcements to make, with some indications that the industry may be entering a new phase of development. Gambetta says that IBM has been making quantum computing available to customers since 2016, via the cloud, with hundreds of institutions using the platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

In 2019, Gartner analyst Dave Cappuccio issued the headline-grabbing prediction that by 2025, 80% of enterprises will have shut down their traditional data centers and moved everything to the cloud. So, Cappuccio wasnt totally wrong; cloud is growing fast, but on-prem isnt declining as precipitously as anticipated.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 18, 2021

Microsoft is bringing advanced hardware security to more Surface devices with cloud firmware management to help enterprises deploy new PCs quickly.

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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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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Atom Computing is working with Microsoft on fault-tolerant quantum computers. Atom Computing Photo) Microsoft and Atom Computing say they’ve reached a new milestone in their effort to build fault-tolerant quantum computers that can show an advantage over classical computers.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Infoblox is rolling out a unified management platform to allow customers to see, control and secure IT resources spread across their hybrid multi-cloud enterprises. Another issue is that multi-cloud setups make it difficult to allocate IP addresses effectively across environments.

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Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The challenges of AI on WAN connectivity With the immense hardware and bandwidth requirements of AI, the challenges for AI connectivity across the WAN are numerous. De Grace acknowledged that currently, Microsoft is not opposed to using InfiniBand, as it is the established standard for the GPU stack.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 14, 2024

Private cloud providers may be among the key beneficiaries of today’s generative AI gold rush as, once seemingly passé in favor of public cloud, CIOs are giving private clouds — either on-premises or hosted by a partner — a second look. The excitement and related fears surrounding AI only reinforces the need for private clouds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

In October, Microsoft announced that 100,000 organizations including Standard Bank, Thomson Reuters, Virgin Money, and Zurich Insurance are using Copilot Studio, double the number just months earlier. Throughout late 2024, Microsoft continued to expand its agentic offerings with purpose-built agents for specific use cases.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As demand for cloud access soars, AWS announced Tuesday that it would spend £8 billion (about US$10.4 This appears to put AWS at roughly the same UK investment level as rivals Microsoft and Google. Google and Microsoft have historically been similarly vague about their European cloud budgets.

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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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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 15, 2017

If you’re running a cloud platform at Microsoft’s scale (30-plus regions around the world, with multiple data centers per region) and you want it to run on the best data center hardware, you typically design it yourself. But what if there are ideas out there — outside of your company’s…

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Public cloud services are one of the biggest disruptions in the tech market in the past 15 years. Rymer published their latest public cloud services outlook, The Public Cloud Services Market Will Grow Rapidly To $236 Billion In 2020 ,projecting 22% annual growth in public cloud services over the 2015-to-2020 period.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

Network as a service (NaaS) is a cloud service model thats designed to let enterprise IT professionals order network infrastructure components from a menu of options, have them configured to fit their business needs, and have the whole thing delivered, running and managed in a matter of hours instead of weeks.

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Network World

MAY 30, 2024

Alibaba’s recent move to reduce prices of several cloud services, including compute, storage, and database offerings among others, is seen by experts as a strategy to attract new customers in emerging markets as competing in China heats up. By offering lower prices, they can capture market share in these regions,” Dickens said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Multiple business imperatives are driving CIOs to re-examine and re-invent their approach to network infrastructure, including the mission critical backbone that supports highly complex, bandwidth-intensive, multi-cloud environments. Hybrid multi-cloud : The debate over cloud vs. on-prem has been pretty much settled; and the answer is both.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. He adds, “This is behind the drive to generative AI by the cloud providers.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Nokia is offering customers an alternative way to set up data center networks by expanding its data center fabric package to support the open-source Software for Open Networking in the Cloud ( SONiC ). The SONiC community has grown significantly since and now features some 4,000 contributors and 28 paying members.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

As Windows 10 nears its end of support, some IT leaders, preparing for PC upgrade cycles, are evaluating the possible cloud cost savings and enhanced security of running AI workloads directly on desktop PCs or laptops. OEMs that have shipped or are readying AI PCs for 2025 or 2026 include Dell, Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and Microsoft.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In some cases, the AI add-ons will be subscription models, like Microsoft Copilot, and sometimes, they will be free, like Salesforce Einstein, he says. While AI projects will continue beyond 2025, many organizations’ software spending will be driven more by other enterprise needs like CRM and cloud computing, Lovelock says.

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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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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Most enterprises deploying AI technology have been turning to hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft to provide all the necessary infrastructure. According to IDC data released this month, cloud and shared environments account for most AI server spending 72% in the first half of 2024. The data is their lifeblood.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Cruise Photo) Microsoft will take an $800 million charge on its investment in the Cruise robotaxi business after General Motors announced it would no longer fund the initiative as part of a shift in its autonomous driving strategy. Wall Street analysts had expected Microsoft to report earnings of $3.14 The Redmond, Wash.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Two ERP deployments in seven years is not for the faint of heart,” admits Dave Shannon, CIO of the hardware distribution firm. Allegis had been using Eclipse for 10 years, when the system was acquired by Epicor, and Allegis began exploring migrating to a cloud-based ERP system. which performed two ERP deployments in seven years.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

After all, an effective multicloud framework offers greater platform and service flexibility by leveraging the strengths of multiple cloud environments to drive business agility and innovation. Each cloud is a silo of specific, often proprietary services and tools. Each cloud is a silo of specific, often proprietary services and tools.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While overall revenue growth slowed to 6% in the quarter for Alphabet, Google Cloud grew 38% year-on-year to $6.9 I’ve long shared that cloud is a key priority for the company,” said Sundar Pichai, CEO at Alphabet, while addressing analysts on Tuesday, according to a transcript from Motley Fool.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Oracle Oracle ofrece una amplia gama de software , hardware y herramientas empresariales diseadas para respaldar la TI empresarial, con un enfoque en la gestin de bases de datos. Ofertas de empleo :90.550 Aumento interanual :7% Total de currculums :32.773.163 3.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

If you recently integrated cloud technologies into your IT environment, chances are your team spent many months working behind the scenes, diligently setting up the implementation to generate quick gains for the business. Either way, clouds of any flavor from public to on prem to hybrid don’t manage themselves. They have two options.

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

Infrastructure agents from Cisco and Microsoft simultaneously validate security, identity and access, costs, and SLO compliance. IBM and Microsoft looking at agent overload Cisco isnt alone in exploring the impact of the proliferation of agents. For example, Microsoft has talked about how AI agents will impact application development.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

We doubled the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) capacity and bandwidth, and also doubled the Interchip Interconnect (ICI) bandwidth over TPU v5e,” Amin Vahdat, general manager of systems and cloud AI at Google, wrote in a blog post. Cloud Computing, Generative AI, Google Cloud Platform

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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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