GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Washington state residents may no longer need to carry a physical driver’s license — as long as they have a smartphone. A new bill in this year’s legislative session aims to establish groundwork to allow digital driver’s licenses in the state of Washington. Photo via senatdemocrats.wa.gov ).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

The transformation sees the retailer, which is currently up for sale, running workloads on Google Cloud Platform and on private on-premises Google Cloud servers running VMware, as well as some utility workloads on Amazon Web Services, the CTO says. Much of that is based on first-party data of Kohl’s customers online and in stores.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

Theres still enough spending by enterprises on servers, licensed software, and the skill sets they need to maintain and operate the environment that currently exists. Not to be outdone, AWS has a similar offering with its Outposts service, as do Microsoft and Google. The enterprise data center is here to stay.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

We are accomplishing this new engagement in two main ways: Standardizing the metric for our pricing across cloud providers to per-core licensing – the same metric used in our end-customer licensing – and providing license portability for VCF. The license portability feature we have added to VCF is key to this strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In a TheVerge.com article (“ Google is getting even worse for independent sites ”), a series of changes to Google’s search algorithm were shown to heavily impact small websites. In one example provided in the article, a website stated that its search traffic decreased 91% within a few months, devastating its business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

As customers await more ample supply of GPUs, many are looking to AI-specific service providers, as well as public and private cloud offerings for hosting genAI workloads, including Nvidia’s cloud, AWS Trainium and Infertia, and Google Tensor Processor Units, according to IDC Market Glance: Generative AI Foundation Models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Setting the standard for analytics and AI As the core development platform was refined, Marsh McLennan continued moving workloads to AWS and Azure, as well as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform. This costs me about 1% of what it would cost” to license the technology through Microsoft.

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TechSpot

JULY 17, 2024

At its core, it had around €455 million in Google Cloud licenses bundled with €14 million in cash incentives. Bloomberg notes that the rejected proposal outlined a generous five-year partnership. However, it came with a notable string attached – the conglomeration of companies known as the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 28, 2025

Google has announced that PebbleOS is now available for download under an open-source license, signaling its support for volunteers who continue to maintain Pebble devices. In a surprising twist, Pebble Technology's original founder has also confirmed his interest in re-entering the "Pebble game" sooner rather than later.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

IDC Research: Oracle Announcements Recognize the Importance of Multicloud July 11, 2024: Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

The aim being, according to a report in The Register , “to make it easier for enterprises to migrate VMware-based workloads to the cloud while allowing them to re-use on-premises license investments.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 11, 2022

While that cloud growth is good news for Oracle, it is still trailing market leaders Microsoft, AWS and Google. While overall revenue including services and license support rose 4% year over year to reach $10.5 Big reasons for the decline were operating expenses for cloud services and license support, which increased 23% to $1.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

Every time you look something up in Google or Bing, you’re helping to train the system. Licensed by MIT, SpaCy was made with high-level data science in mind and allows deep data mining. Google Cloud Translation. All the algorithm then needs is the word for “store” to complete the translation task. Amazon Comprehend.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2023

Microsoft was encroaching onto Google’s turf when it announced an AI-powered Bing search engine last month. The preview of “Microsoft 365 Copilot” in a pre-recorded online event followed Google’s attempt to preempt Microsoft’s news earlier this week.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Setting the standard for analytics and AI As the core development platform was refined, Marsh McLellan continued moving workloads to AWS and Azure, as well as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform. This costs me about 1% of what it would cost” to license the technology through Microsoft.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Amazon Q competes on different fronts with Microsoft’s market-leading GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot for businesses, Google Gemini, Salesforce Agentforce, and many other AI tools for businesses and developers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

The cloud vendors first raised concerns in 2022, after they said their customers were “asked to pay more to run Microsoft software in non-Microsoft cloud environments, under what they saw as restrictive cloud licensing policies.” However, even with these deals, Microsoft is still under the microscope, especially in Spain.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

They’ll be accessible via Amazon SageMaker, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Microsoft Azure AI, and integrations with AI frameworks like Deepset, LangChain and LlamaIndex are also supported. Nvidia’s AI Enterprise 5.0 Containers, Generative AI, Microservices, Nvidia

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TechSpot

JANUARY 4, 2025

It's become a household name, with nearly every major TV manufacturer today paying the "Dolby tax" to license Atmos. For years, Dolby Atmos has been the dominant force in 3D audio, known for its immersive surround sound that makes it feel as though sounds are coming from all around you. Read Entire Article

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Googles Gemini Flash 2.0 Both Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini are licensed under the MIT license and will be made available through Hugging Face , allowing for commercial use. led with a score of 74.3. In combined visual and audio tasks, Phi-4-multimodal outperformed Gemini-2.0

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

A move that is likely to unlock similar investments from competitors — Google in particular — and open the way for new or improved software tools for enterprises large and small. There is a big battle brewing between the three hyperscalers — Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — and it’s not just about AI. It’s going to get ugly,” she said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

SGB-SMIT’s multi-cloud ambitions have been made possible using VMware Cloud on AWS and Google Cloud VMware Engine. It allows us to share resources, tools, and data between Amazon, Google, and our own private cloud environments.” . It needed a cost-effective solution to help continue its rapid global expansion. . Multi Cloud

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In a powerful and strategic initiative, Google has invested $2.7 billion to bring Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, the founders of AI startup Character.AI, back to Google. Irritated by what he regarded as Google’s too-careful handling of AI, Shazeer quit to launch Character.AI. In any case, according to WSJ , the $2.7

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

In addition, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and AWS all encouraged their midtier Commitment plans — Azure Savings Plan, AWS Compute Savings Plan, and GCP Flexible CUDs. 2023 was a year of growth and service diversification for the cloud services space, and we expect to see that continue throughout 2024.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In my case, I wound up mucking around in Google Maps, pasting in the tournament venue and multiple hotel options to answer the question. The company is pursuing an exclusive license to use the technology. . “There is no way when you’re looking for a hotel to understand, ‘How is this going to fit into my trip?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

You should no longer assume SAP is simply interested in managing infrastructure or introducing a new product repackaging and license scheme. The introduction of RISE and GROW is no different. As customers evaluate RISE, they will be well served to assess the impact of adopting RISE on their existing non-SAP partnerships.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

Google launched its container orchestration platform Kubernetes (K8s) in 2014, announcing the launch of over 2 billion containers weekly. Containers are faster to start up, drive higher server efficiencies, and reduce server and licensing costs. This technology has since been improved by Red Hat, IBM, and Docker.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 21, 2023

To do so, they are obfuscating reality, limiting transparency, and changing their historic business practices to make RISE appear financially superior to the traditional perpetual license models. Because of the way SAP is positioning RISE in the market, organizations must also re-evaluate their cloud strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2023

We use Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and also open source models from Hugging Face,” says Alain Biem, head of data science for the global financial information company. The only restriction is that companies with over 700 million active daily users will need to obtain a special license from Meta.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

In choosing RISE, Microsoft is making SAP responsible for the licensing, technical management, hosting and support of its SAP applications under a single SLA — although ultimately Microsoft will host its S/4HANA instances in its own Azure cloud, and some of the migration work will be performed by third parties.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

TensorFlow: Developed by Google and licensed under Apache License 2.0, Some common tools include: SAS” This proprietary statistical tool is used for data mining, statistical analysis, business intelligence, clinical trial analysis, and time-series analysis. Tableau: Now owned by Salesforce, Tableau is a data visualization tool.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

Organizations don’t need to deal with multiple different vendors and tools, each with different license agreements and upgrade cycles that require integration with each other. It also now helps protect AWS and Google Cloud environments, as well as Linux, MacOS, iOS for iPhone, iPadOS, and Android.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2022

SAP, for example, has launched its RISE offering , including reimagined partnerships with AWS, Google, and Microsoft as well as its consulting partners such as Accenture and IBM to bring a vertically integrated solution to market. Choosing SAP S/4HANA RISE vs. perpetual license model. Establishing an SAP partner strategy.

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GeekWire

MAY 21, 2024

It’s part of a broader effort by Microsoft to expand the capabilities of Microsoft 365 Copilot, which costs businesses an additional $30/user per month on top of the existing price of Microsoft 365 licenses. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and others are competing aggressively in AI to expand the footprints of their cloud platforms.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Mistral is a new AI company co-founded by former Google and Meta alumni valued at $260 million. The startup's focus is providing language model solutions released through open-source licenses, so that AI can become "useful" to anyone with no need to spend huge amounts of money or pay to access. Read Entire Article

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 12, 2024

Google Meet is introducing a new AI-powered feature called “Take notes for me,” aimed at enhancing productivity during meetings by automating the note-taking process. How to control take notes for me on Google Meet? Featured image credit: Google

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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 price rise will not affect existing product orders for business users that are under price protection licensing agreements.

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