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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

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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‘An easy button to get off Windows’: Amazon’s new AI moves Microsoft apps to Linux

GeekWire

The move could boost Amazon’s cloud business by reducing a major hurdle for customers to move away from data centers and servers running on Microsoft’s operating system. It was widely seen at the time as an effort by the company to play catch-up in the fast-moving field of artificial intelligence.

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Ready…Set…Start Your Containers

CIO Business Intelligence

Incompatibility and unreliability caused by configuration differences such as versions of compilers, loaders, runtime libraries, middleware, and operating systems in new environments contributed to increased project effort, cost, and timelines. Containers provide an elegant solution to this problem. in an isolated and executable unit.

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Realizing the promise of multi-cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

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. .

Cloud 246
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Microsoft adopts RISE with SAP for internal migration to S/4HANA

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft has begun migrating its internal SAP systems to S/4HANA under the RISE with SAP umbrella. All three major cloud providers host SAP applications for their customers, and all three run at least some of their internal financial systems on SAP. Microsoft, though, is the first to adopt the RISE with SAP offering.

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How IT Can Deliver on the Promise of Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Public cloud providers such as AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure publish shared responsibility models that push security of the data, platform, applications, operating system, network and firewall configuration, and server-side encryption, to the customer. Going multi-cloud adds another layer of complexity.

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4 remedies to avoid cloud app migration headaches

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, Amazon’s EC2 substrate does the same thing as Google’s GCP, but an application running on EC2 won’t run on GCP without a lot of expensive rework. And while Kubernetes is an industry standard, implementations of it, such as Azure Communication Services and Google Kubernetes Engine, don’t work identically.

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