Network World

JANUARY 28, 2025

AWS and Microsoft could potentially face an investigation of their cloud businesses in Britain should the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) follow the recommendation of an independent inquiry group that reports into the UKs antitrust regulator. In its report, the inquiry group concluded that competition in the 9 billion (US$11.2

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

4-7 with a new portfolio of solutions and an emphasis on its flagship private cloud platform, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). When I joined VMware, we only had a hypervisor – referring to a single software [instance] that can be used to run multiple virtual machines on a physical one – we didn’t have storage or networking.”

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Network World

JANUARY 21, 2025

Integrating traffic management, policy enforcement, and role-based access control, Red Hat Connectivity Link is a new technology from IBMs Red Hat business unit thats aimed at simplifying how enterprises manage application connectivity across distributed cloud environments. Red Hat Connectivity Link is not a mesh, Ferreira emphasized.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. In the rush to the public cloud, a lot of people didnt think about pricing, says Tracy Woo, principal analyst at Forrester. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs?

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Network World

JANUARY 22, 2025

In recent years, organizations have increasingly moved workloads to the cloud, where they have not had the same network visibility. Why Stratoshark matters for cloud operations There are many different ways to get visibility into the cloud today.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Nobody wants to waste money on cloud services. But by failing to fully address a handful of basic issues, many IT leaders squander funds on cloud services that could be used to support other important projects and initiatives especially as AI comes along to alter the cloud economics equation.

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Network World

DECEMBER 2, 2024

With the incremental differences in the major enterprise cloud environments today, that may be enough. He said that the new services are, not unexpectedly, trying to get enterprises to align with AWS services, which should make it more difficult to later move to a competing cloud platform. “Is

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Network World

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, scrutinizing its cloud computing, software licensing, cybersecurity, and AI businesses. The inquiry follows over a year of informal interviews with competitors and business partners, Bloomberg reported.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It’s unsurprising to see legacy providers shifting their business models from perpetual software licensing to subscription-based pricing. This past year has been rife with complaints over a substantial licensing change by Citrix after it was acquired by private equity firms and merged with TIBCO Software.

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Network World

MARCH 6, 2025

Also, as part of the partnership, Veeam will integrate Microsoft AI services and machine learning (ML) capabilities into its data resilience platform, Veeam Data Cloud. It combines software, infrastructure, and storage into an all-in-one cloud service. This allows organizations to bring down costs and simplify data management.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

F5 is evolving its core application and load balancing software to help customers secure and manage AI-powered and multicloud workloads. It ensures traffic management and communication between on-premises systems, cloud-based AI models, edge devices, andAPIs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Acumatica has released a new “edition” of its cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software tailored to the needs of mid-size professional services firms. The number of potential customers for Acumatica’s new functionality — or similar products from competitors — is huge.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 13, 2025

Three years ago, Lee Sustar and I published the report, Navigate The Cloud-Native Ecosystem In 2022.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Software developers are in demand. They must be developer-friendly because software development is not a traditional 9-to-5 job. Anyone who has a good idea for a new function in the software, who thinks they have discovered a profitable gap in the market or who wants to test a new algorithm can simply do so.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

IT professionals have been striving to manage cloud costs effectively since the inception of cloud computing. Those efforts have evolved into FinOps , a business discipline and a set of best practices to optimize cloud spending. See also: Will FinOps help reduce cloud waste in organizations?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In his role as president, CPO, and COO, Zavery’s responsibilities include ServiceNow’s platform, products, engineering, cloud infrastructure, and user experience. During his tenure, he helped build Google Cloud into the fourth-largest enterprise software company by increasing annualized revenue from $7 billion to over $41 billion.

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Network World

MARCH 4, 2025

Products that include VMware ESXi, such as VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation, and VMware Telco Cloud Platform, are also impacted. Hypervisors, or virtual machine monitors, are the virtualization software used to create and run virtual machines.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As organizations globally discover new opportunities created by AI, many are investing significantly in GenAI, including as part of their cloud modernization efforts. The fact that these applications were not born in the cloud makes efforts to update them laborious at best and sometimes impossible.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A cloud analytics migration project is a heavy lift for enterprises that dive in without adequate preparation. Traditional systems often can’t support the demands of real-time processing and AI workloads,” notes Michael Morris, Vice President, Cloud, CloudOps, and Infrastructure, at SAS. But this scenario is avoidable.

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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 version of the Apstra software.

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Network World

JANUARY 8, 2025

Exadata is Oracles hardware and software platform for running Oracle Database workloads on premises or in hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. The previous version, X10M, was released in June 2023, just as demand for generative AI was taking off, and some of the changes in the latest version address the needs of that market.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The software and services an organization chooses to fuel the enterprise can make or break its overall success. And part of that success comes from investing in talented IT pros who have the skills necessary to work with your organizations preferred technology platforms, from the database to the cloud.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

a significant update to the open-source distributed cloud platform designed for IoT, 5G, O-RAN and edge computing applications. StarlingX got its start back in 2018 as a telecom and networking focused version of the open-source OpenStack cloud platform. The Open Infrastructure Foundation is out with the release of StarlingX 10.0,

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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.

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2024

GenAI will easily eclipse the effects that cloud and outsourcing vendors had on previous years regarding data center systems,” said John-David Lovelock, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, in a statement. “It It took 20 years for the cloud and outsourcing vendors to build up spending to $67 billion a year on servers. “It Devices: 9.5%

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Outdated software applications are creating roadblocks to AI adoption at many organizations, with limited data retention capabilities a central culprit, IT experts say. Moreover, the cost of maintaining outdated software, with a shrinking number of software engineers familiar with the apps, can be expensive, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A high hurdle many enterprises have yet to overcome is accessing mainframe data via the cloud. In order to make the most of critical mainframe data, organizations must build a link between mainframe data and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Four key challenges prevent them from doing so: 1.

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Network World

JANUARY 15, 2025

The vendors AI Defense package offers protection to enterprise customers developing AI applications across models and cloud services, according to Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos Security, Data Center, Internet & Cloud Infrastructure groups. AI Defense will be available in March.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Cisco has taken the wraps off a pair of intelligent WiFi-7 access points and introduced a new way of licensing wireless gear across cloud, on-premises and hybrid networks. These licenses include product support for both hardware and software. AI and security aren’t just add-on features—they’re built into every layer.

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

Microsoft on Wednesday reported strong earnings, but the percentage increase in its intelligent cloud operating income has dropped off sharply. But that is the lowest percentage increase in quite some time; in the same quarter of 2024, intelligent cloud operating income grew by $3.6 billion, a 14% boost. billion, a whopping 40%.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

SASE since its inception has typically been deployed in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, delivering network security services from the cloud. Like most SASE vendors, it started with a shared cloud service, then rolled out a private SASE service, where organizations get their own dedicated private link.

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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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Network World

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) emerged in 2014 as a way to help organizations embrace the cloud and quickly became a hot commodity. In fact, Gartner predicts by 2027, 65% of new software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) purchases will be part of a single-vendor SASE offering, an increase from 20% in 2024.

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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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Forrester IT

DECEMBER 11, 2024

After offshore and cloud, managed services are being reshaped by AI at a fundamental level, introducing a new services paradigm that blends performance-based models, automation, and human-centric refinement.

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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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