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

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Separately, Dell announced it will offer support for Nvidia Tensor Core GPUs by the end of the year, including the H200 SXM cloud GPUs. First up, Dell announced that its APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure will offer a Dell-managed option for organizations seeking a simplified deployment and management experience.

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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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Network World

MARCH 5, 2025

Enterprise data storage skills are in demand, and that means storage certifications can be more valuable to organizations looking for people with those qualifications. No longer are storage skills a niche specialty, Smith says. Both vendor-specific and general storage certifications are valuable, Smith says.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Microsoft OneDrive accounts for 26% of the overall usage of cloud storage apps to host malware, ahead of Microsoft PowerPoint and GitHub.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Migration to the cloud, data valorization, and development of e-commerce are areas where rubber sole manufacturer Vibram has transformed its business as it opens up to new markets. Much of this growth is driven by investments in AI technologies, and IDC also expects cloud infrastructure spend to increase 26% compared to 2023.

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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. Its a brand-new skill set.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2025

However, trade along the Silk Road was not just a matter of distance; it was shaped by numerous constraints much like todays data movement in cloud environments. Merchants had to navigate complex toll systems imposed by regional rulers, much as cloud providers impose egress fees that make it costly to move data between platforms.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Google took over the top spot for malicious downloads from Microsoft OneDrive as attackers created free accounts, uploaded malware and shared documents with unsuspecting users, says Netskope.

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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

JUNE 12, 2024

Whether it’s in your data center, an IaaS vendor like AWS, or a SaaS vendor like Microsoft 365, it needs independent backup. However, some people believe we should trust the cloud vendors to do the right thing. Fifteen years of cloud data-loss incidents gives a pretty good idea of how bad a cloud outage can be.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A release issued by the authority, known as Bundeskartellamt, indicated that for the next five years, Microsoft is subject to something called “special abuse control,” which Nextcloud said is a designation that “can prohibit Microsoft from engaging in anti-competitive practices throughout Germany.’’

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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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Computer Weekly

JULY 5, 2017

Despite lingering trust issues, storage and backup are key use cases in the public cloud, says Barracuda survey. Meanwhile, Microsoft Azure is Europe’s favourite cloud provider

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The core of their problem is applying AI technology to the data they already have, whether in the cloud, on their premises, or more likely both. The data is spread out across your different storage systems, and you don’t know what is where. Imagine that you’re a data engineer. NetApp is already addressing many of these challenges.

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Network World

MARCH 18, 2025

An anonymous AWS cloud customer has revealed that the cloud giant pitched it on renting servers powered by its purpose-built Trainium chips, offering the same computing power as Nvidias highly sought-after H100 chips at three-quarters of the price. This also mitigates their dependency on Nvidia as a supplier for a critical service.

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Computer Weekly

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Competition and Markets Authority confirms support of Amazon, Apple and Microsoft as it concludes compliance review into cloud storage sector

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Network World

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Data protection is a broad category that includes data security but also encompasses backup and disaster recovery, safe data storage, business continuity and resilience, and compliance with data privacy regulations. Download our editors’ PDF hybrid cloud data protection buyer’s guide today!]

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

Strategic use of hyper-converged technology to alleviate challenges Addressing these concerns, IDC, together with Dell Technologies and Microsoft, recently held a discussion on how most of these challenges can be addressed with the strategic use of hyper-converged technologies.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But many features — for example, the Joule AI copilot — are included only with the latest cloud solutions such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud and the RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP programs. A plethora of AI tools are already on the market, from open-source options to capabilities offered by internet giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

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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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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

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

MARCH 12, 2025

They combine cloud services from different providers in a targeted way to exploit the advantages of different platforms. For years, outsourcing IT processes to the cloud has been considered an essential step in the digitalization of companies. They combine public cloud services from AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, for example.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

IBM is all set to increase its cloud services costs by up to 26% from January 2024. IBM PaaS services — slated for a 3% price hike globally — include IBM’s Kubernetes Services, RedHat OpenShift, all security services, and all cloud database offerings including Message Hub, Cloudant, and SQL query services. Cloud Computing, IBM

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Distributed Cloud Network Connect is F5’s connectivity service that ties together multiple cloud provider networks. NetApp’s Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Azure NetApp Files optimize cloud storage costs and performance while enhancing data protection and compliance.

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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 29, 2025

Most of these systems are now more complicated than ever, with hybrid cloud becoming the way many organizations operate, Lobig said. EMA research finds that hybrid clouds are particularly problematic for network operations teams today. And nodes have a fixed, defined configuration [with] memory, storage, compute and GPUs attached.

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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

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

AUGUST 14, 2024

The global cloud infrastructure services market remains strong, buoyed in part by enterprise interest in AI. In the second quarter of 2024, global spending on cloud infrastructure services grew by 19% year-over-year to surpass the $78 billion mark. from Google Cloud and GPT-4o mini from Azure. Sonnet and other APIs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2022

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is set to release two new solutions targeted at the manufacturing sector and aiming to ease data engineering and analytics tasks, unifying data from diverse machine assets to offer business insights to factory managers. Edge-cloud connection helps data extraction. billion by 2026. “We

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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

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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