CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Google on Wednesday told the European Union (EU) that Microsoft is illegally using its dominant market position in Windows to force enterprises to use its Azure cloud service or face a 400% price penalty and a denial of upgrades and security patches. It doesn’t address the particulars of Google’s filing,” he said.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Amid all of the buzz around Copilot at Microsoft Ignite last week, SharePoint Premium was revealed. While this is partially a branding and licensing streamlining effort, SharePoint Premium will continue to evolve into an AI-powered content platform with document automation, metadata enrichment, and other intelligent content services.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Chatbot Arena ranks more than 160 top models both proprietary and open source and lists their licenses. Legal indemnification is a common feature of gen AI contracts from OpenAI, Microsoft, Adobe, and other major vendors. Enterprises are better off being model agnostic. Too many to choose from?

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Open Source Security Licensing Training 288

Network World

MARCH 20, 2025

These processors have attracted major cloud providers including Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Alibaba, and Tencent. In technology licensing where an entity is both provider and competitor, boundaries are typically well-defined without special preferences beyond potential first-mover advantages, Kawoosa explained.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

Consulting firm PwC announced Wednesday that it is accelerating its adoption of generative AI in the US and UK through an agreement with OpenAI that it said makes it both the first reseller for ChatGPT Enterprise and the product’s largest user.

Enterprise 317

Enterprise Enterprise Research Licensing 317

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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2022

Cloud adoption might have the effect of consolidating IT by bringing a host of interactions on to a single platform and shift the cost of running IT from CapEx spending to OpEx, but there is the potential for it to cause licensing “bill shock.” Introducing Cloud Navigator portal. Introducing Cloud Navigator portal.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Some delayed decisions by relying on existing VMware licenses, while others explored alternatives or ran redundancies to compare options. operator of 28 hotel and casino properties across the US, was negotiating a fresh enterprise agreement with VMware prior to its acquisition, reported The Register.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

OpenAI has landed billions of dollars more funding from Microsoft to continue its development of generative artificial intelligence tools such as Dall-E 2 and ChatGPT. Microsoft stands to benefit from its investment in three ways. The deal, announced by OpenAI and Microsoft on Jan. It’s going to get ugly,” she said.

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Enterprise Enterprise Microsoft Artificial Intelligence 328

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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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 Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% trillion, Gartner projects. The key message was, ‘Pace yourself.’”

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Network World

MAY 24, 2024

These, along with issues such as software licensing, could disincentivise customers from using rival cloud providers, thereby stifling innovation and inhibiting competition in the cloud service market. Software licensing practices were not widely viewed, in isolation, as influencing the choice of public cloud provider.

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Anoop

JULY 11, 2019

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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. You can marry that to this incredible library of Microsoft technology. Cloud Computing, Enterprise Applications, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Database

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Oracle Microsoft Data Center Licensing 279

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

of Nvidia’s enterprise-spanning AI software platform will feature a smorgasbord of microservices designed to speed app development and provide quick ways to ramp up deployments, the company announced today at its GPU Technology Conference. A host of further integrations is also coming to AI Enterprise 5.0, Nvidia’s AI Enterprise 5.0

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CTOvision

AUGUST 15, 2016

All enterprise professionals should continue to track MicroSoft ( NASDAQ:MSFT ). We focus most of our energy tracking smaller, more disruptive firms since most enterprise technologists will know how to get updates on MicroSoft, but like the other Tech Titans we track we have to keep an eye out for surprises. Bob Gourley.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Generative AI touches every aspect of the enterprise, and every aspect of society,” says Bret Greenstein, partner and leader of the gen AI go-to-market strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Gen AI is that amplification and the world’s reaction to it is like enterprises and society reacting to the introduction of a foreign body. “We

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Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Last week, Microsoft announced that mobile and tablet versions of its Office applications would be free. Most companies and enterprises spend a good deal of money yearly on user computing devices and Microsoft licenses. cio data management data scientist enterprise 2.0 The question is, should we care?

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Microsoft Tools Licensing Mobile 190

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

The breakthroughs from cloud-based leaders such as OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google, and others are impressive, but their focus on outdoing each other and the huge investments needed to do so might be obscuring the more measured approach their customers prefer. 1 Foundry, AI Priorities Study 2025, [link]

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Artificial Intelligence Budget Survey Web Services 191

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With its new Business Data Cloud, SAP wants to help enterprises unify data held in its own systems with that in other vendors applications: Its goal is to expedite advanced analytics and AI use cases. Although enterprises can continue using Datasphere for now, SAP clearly wants them to move to Business Data Cloud.

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SAP Data Cloud Enterprise 162

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The professional services arm of Marsh McLennan advises clients on the risks, shifts, and challenges facing the modern enterprise, most poignantly the vital role technology now plays in business and on the world stage. This costs me about 1% of what it would cost” to license the technology through Microsoft.

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Insurance Data Center Training Data 305

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2023

Microsoft 365 is the productivity engine at the heart of many SMB businesses across Australia. Having the right licenses for the applications the business needs are critical. Licensing can sometimes be complex to understand, however, which is why SMBs should make sure they’re sourcing their licenses from the right places.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

At Trellix, which is positioning itself as a leader in extended detection and response (XDR), she heads the Enterprise Technology and Operations group.Anstett said at her appointment : My number one priority as CIO is to deliver insights to our business to serve our customers. Fun fact: She is a licensed English-as-a-Second Language teacher.

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Network Industry Oracle Education 363

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Oracle is an enterprise software vendor based in Austin, Texas. This announcement came on the heels of a very busy June for Oracle as it announced earnings, including 12% growth for cloud services and license support revenue and new extensions of relationships with Google and Microsoft, respectively. Should CIOs listen?

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Oracle Enterprise Enterprise Applications 298

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

Also, it is difficult and costly to find and retain cybersecurity professionals with the expertise to protect enterprise data against a new generation of attacks. In addition, most enterprises use multiple tools and solutions that must be managed by lean, in-house security teams. First: Simplify. Perceptions are changing.

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Security Microsoft Enterprise Enterprise 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

The AI service providers, sometimes dubbed AI hyperscalers, offer GPU-as-a-service, enabling enterprises to purchase GPU power on demand to limit spending. These AI service providers include CoreWeave, Equinix, Digital Realty, and Paperspace, as well as GPU leader Nvidia and, to an extent, cloud hyperscalers Microsoft, Google, and AWS.

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Fractional CTO Open Source Cloud Energy 340

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The professional services arm of Marsh McLellan advises clients on the risks, shifts, and challenges facing the modern enterprise, most poignantly the vital role technology now plays in business and on the world stage. This costs me about 1% of what it would cost” to license the technology through Microsoft.

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Insurance Data Center Training Data 263

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2024

In partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA, and ServiceNow, Dell Technologies introduced Dell NativeEdge , an edge operations software platform that is made to simplify edge operations in a secure environment. When combined, both Dell NativeEdge and NVIDIA AI Enterprise will revolutionize edge AI technology and transform field level operations.

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Dell Applications Enterprise Enterprise 289

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. In addition, Extreme has enhanced the visualization of third-party devices, such as through built-in integrations with Intel and Microsoft, Bukhari said.

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Network Security Licensing Wireless 243

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2024

That’s what a number of IT leaders are learning of late, as the AI market and enterprise AI strategies continue to evolve. Low barriers to entry Better yet, the cost to try a small language model AI is close to zero, as opposed to monthly licensing costs for an LLM or spending millions of dollars to build your own, Bullock says.

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Licensing Training Tools CTO 328

CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2016

Its cloud and on-premise software business consists of three segments, including cloud software and on-premise software, which includes Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and software license updates and product support. A Very Clear Plan (blogs.oracle.com).

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Oracle Enterprise Enterprise Hardware 150

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Citing currency fluctuations, Microsoft is all set to increase prices of its on-premises software, online services and Windows licenses in India by up to 11%. The change will see India prices for commercial on-premises software rise by 4.5%, Microsoft said in a blog post. Microsoft, Pricing

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Microsoft Software Software Licensing 130

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2022

IBM’s ERP transformation will be one of the largest under the “Rise with SAP” umbrella — perhaps rivaling that of Microsoft , which announced its own adoption of Rise with SAP for the first stages of its move to S/4HANA in March 2022. Work on it began in late 2021, a few months before Breakthrough was announced.

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SAP IBM Cloud Software 331

Venture Beat

MAY 17, 2021

France said its state and corporate data can be stored on Google and Microsoft's cloud services which have been licensed to French companies. Read More.

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Google Microsoft Cloud Data 136

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

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. The cloud services landscape is in constant flux.

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Strategy Cloud Storage Data Center 328

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2023

Many, if not most, enterprises deploying generative AI are starting with OpenAI, typically via a private cloud on Microsoft Azure. And many organizations already have a relationship with Microsoft, and are comfortable with the security, manageability, and enterprise support they get from the company.

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Open Source Training Licensing Enterprise 246

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

UL Solutions , part of the UL enterprise that grew out of Underwriters Laboratories, on Monday jumped into the crowded genAI third-party evaluation service market, joining Stanford University and Microsoft , among many others, but with a more customized approach. The UL team will be asking questions as well as analyzing code.

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