CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, however, CIOs face the daunting challenge of navigating a complex and rapidly evolving cloud ecosystem.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2024

With more and more businesses moving to the Cloud, FinOps is becoming a vital framework for efficiently controlling Cloud expenses. Given that SaaS accounts for a sizable amount of Cloud expenses for businesses of all kinds, including small and medium-sized firms, this addition is essential.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic. Keeping control However, anyone wanting to use the latest Llama 3.2

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

It is available both in a cloud-based SaaS and an on-premises version. S/4HANA Cloud With S/4HANA, SAP has also taken a new approach to its operating model. S/4HANA can now be operated not only on-premises but also leased as a cloud version. The S/4HANA Cloud Edition is offered assoftware-as-a-service.

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Network World

MAY 24, 2024

Research by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has uncovered concerns that cloud users’ established commitments with hyperscalers may limit their future cloud computing options. Private clouds and software-as-a-service offerings were considered out of scope.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. Leaders across every industry depend on its resilient cloud platform operated by a team of industry veterans and experts with extensive networking, connectivity, and security expertise.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This includes acquisition of new software licenses and/or cloud expenses, hardware purchases (compute, storage), early termination costs related to the existing virtual environment, application testing/quality assurance and test equipment, the report reads. Add to all this personnel costs, and the expense might not be worth it.

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

What today is known as secure service edge (SSE) started under a different name — secure access service edge (SASE) — with a slightly different meaning. In 2019, Gartner created the term SASE to describe a cloud-based service that combines networking and security to give remote workers safe access to internet-based resources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That’s why Rimini Street strategic services groups assist clients at any stage of their infrastructure modernization, including: • License advisory services to help maximize deployment of your Oracle Database licenses to achieve the best return on investment • Help with developing a business-driven, rather than vendor-dictated roadmap–even migrating (..)

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

Simplicity is a superpower that’s strong,” said Chris Wolf, global head of AI and advanced services, VMware Cloud Foundation division of Broadcom. One bright shiny object that VMware pursued a decade ago, he said, was the public cloud. You’re confronting the three Cs of public cloud. Complexity: It is another platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Alan Qi, President of Huawei Cloud Middle East and Central Asia, stated that Huawei Cloud is transforming how enterprises harness AI.He Huawei Cloud combines Cloud for AI and AI for Cloud, leveraging cloud infrastructure to build AI model capabilities and utilizing AI to enhance cloud development processes.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella directed the company’s security team to boost a bounty program for AI and cloud bugs during one of Microsoft’s weekly Secure Future Initiative meetings. GeekWire File Photo) If security is really more important than everything else, will it be in the keynote?

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Concerns about price hikes surfaced when Broadcom moved VMware away from perpetual licensing terms and onto a subscription model that bundles multiple products together. But the analogy has its limitations because many users think of mainframes as a legacy technology, while VMwares cloud-based products address future challenges, he adds.

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Network World

AUGUST 30, 2016

Identity management vendor Okta and Google have announced a partnership aimed at getting enterprises to secure their users' identities in the cloud. Businesses that buy a ton of Apps for Work licenses will also be encouraged to use Okta's services to manage how their users connect to business apps. .

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As modern networking deployments across the cloud and edge become increasingly complex, it can be a non-trivial exercise for teams to get proper visibility. The release focuses on streamlining network operations across cloud, SD-WAN and traditional environments while strengthening security and compliance capabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

Many CIOs expect significant price increases in the cloud and other IT products and services during 2025, requiring those with stagnant budgets to make difficult decisions about IT spending. Faiz Khan, founder and CEO of multicloud services provider Wanclouds, agrees that cloud prices are likely to go up this year.

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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. 1 – Security.

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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.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Cato Networks today introduced digital experience monitoring (DEM) capabilities that will augment the company’s cloud SASE platform with application traffic and network performance data that IT operations teams need to optimize end-user experiences. The DEM features are natively available across Cato’s Cloud SASE platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The software spending increases will be driven by several factors, including price increases, expanding license bases, and some AI investments , says John Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner. “We We’re consistently evaluating our technology needs to ensure our platforms are efficient, secure, and scalable,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2025

Shadow IT can create several problems, he says, including software license violations and security holes. But this creates even more problems security risks, data silos, and a lack of standardization that makes IT support a nightmare. Some organizations are too strict, however, Gfesser adds. These are clearly good things.

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Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

So far, the $60 billion Broadcom-VMware deal has led to some layoffs , VMware licensing changes, production rationalizations, and shifts to the partner program. Competitors are claiming some success in attracting VM defectors , though analysts aren’t reporting widespread migrations. VMware customers would be wise to have an exit plan.”

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Vmware Symantec Licensing Enterprise 418

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2024

A member of your organization’s security team reads about a new kind of security tool and brings it to the CISO’s attention, who decides that it’s a good investment. The CISO sees a new kind of security threat that requires a different security tool. A colleague recommends a security tool she says is indispensable.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

But this enthusiasm is tempered by the realities of implementation and integration, coupled with fear of over-depending on rapidly evolving AI cloud service providers. Many CIOs and CTOs are assessing the risks of placing too much faith in public cloud AI platforms. 1 Foundry, AI Priorities Study 2025, [link]

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Network World

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

That seems to be the mantra for Cisco in 2019 as the company pushes software-defined WANs, cloud partnerships, improved application programs and its over-arching drive to sell more subscription-based software licenses. Check out What is hybrid cloud computing and learn what you need to know about multi-cloud. |

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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. I want to provide an easy and secure outlet that’s genuinely production-ready and scalable. The biggest challenge is data.

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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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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. Network Management Software, Network Security Also, many tools were difficult to use, so they came with a learning curve.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Talk may be cheap, but when it comes to IT security, strategic conversations with colleagues, business partners, and other relevant parties can be priceless. Ongoing IT security strategy conversations should address the organization’s cyber risk and arrive at strategic objectives, Albrecht says. What would be the next steps?

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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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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Extreme Networks is rolling out an AI-infused networking platform that aims to help enterprise customers integrate, manage and automate a broad range of network and security technologies. Overall, one of the keys to networking platforms is reimagining the experience that network and security operators have when doing their jobs.

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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

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

JANUARY 16, 2023

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. With Amazon taking care of infrastructure, patching, and security, Choice’s 650-member Scottsdale, Ariz.-based

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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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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2025

Microsoft announced a major expansion of its Security Copilot platform today, introducing a suite of AI agents designed to automate common security operations tasks and reduce the burden on cybersecurity professionals. Many see promise but also critical pitfalls if these agents are deployed without proper controls.

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