Network World

AUGUST 5, 2019

Back when this blog was dedicated to all things Microsoft I routinely railed against the spying aspects of Windows 10. Well, apparently that’s nothing compared to what enterprise security, analytics, and hardware management tools are doing.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Atom Computing is working with Microsoft on fault-tolerant quantum computers. Atom Computing Photo) Microsoft and Atom Computing say they’ve reached a new milestone in their effort to build fault-tolerant quantum computers that can show an advantage over classical computers.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Altera – Intel’s standalone company focused on FPGA hardware – introduced an array of FPGA hardware, software, and services at its annual developer conference. It also announced new development kits and software support for its Agilex 5 FPGAs. performance improvement over the previous generation. Quartus Prime Pro 24.3

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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. HCI vendors include Nutanix , Scale, Microsoft Azure Stack and others.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

In October, Microsoft announced that 100,000 organizations including Standard Bank, Thomson Reuters, Virgin Money, and Zurich Insurance are using Copilot Studio, double the number just months earlier. Throughout late 2024, Microsoft continued to expand its agentic offerings with purpose-built agents for specific use cases.

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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. On top of that, the AI-enabled data center will need liquid cooling, advanced networking infrastructure, and advanced infrastructure management software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

El software y los servicios que una organizacin elija para impulsar su negocio pueden determinar el xito general o el fracaso de ste. Oracle Oracle ofrece una amplia gama de software , hardware y herramientas empresariales diseadas para respaldar la TI empresarial, con un enfoque en la gestin de bases de datos.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 12, 2024

Good coding practices for performance and efficiency have been part of software engineering since the earliest days. Computers that piggyback on vast libraries with extraneous lines of code, developers who have lost count of the number of virtual machines they have spun off — all add drag and increase the carbon emissions related to software.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Juniper Networks is advancing the software for its AI-Native Networking Platform to help enterprise customers better manage and support AI in their data centers. It’s hardware agnostic, so it can be integrated to work with Juniper’s networking products as well as boxes from Cisco, Arista, Dell, Microsoft and Nvidia.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

in 2025, but software spending — four times larger than the data center segment — will grow by 14% next year, to $1.24 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.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

ecosystems based on early stage funding data reflects Seattle’s continued strength in software-related innovation. Seattle was third in the software-as-a-service category among cities ranked by seed and Series A funding data, pulled from companies that use Carta’s equity management platform. Seattle ranked No.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Microsoft co-founders Paul Allen, left, and Bill Gates with an array of personal computers in the early 1980s. Microsoft’s decision to make software, rather than produce a PC of its own, defined its business in its early years. Learn more and register here for our Microsoft @ 50 event, March 20, 2025, in Seattle.

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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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GeekWire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Cruise Photo) Microsoft will take an $800 million charge on its investment in the Cruise robotaxi business after General Motors announced it would no longer fund the initiative as part of a shift in its autonomous driving strategy. Wall Street analysts had expected Microsoft to report earnings of $3.14 The Redmond, Wash.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

DeepSeeks advancements could lead to more accessible and affordable AI solutions, but they also require careful consideration of strategic, competitive, quality, and security factors, says Ritu Jyoti, group VP and GM, worldwide AI, automation, data, and analytics research with IDCs software market research and advisory practice.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Nokia is offering customers an alternative way to set up data center networks by expanding its data center fabric package to support the open-source Software for Open Networking in the Cloud ( SONiC ). The SONiC community has grown significantly since and now features some 4,000 contributors and 28 paying members.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 29, 2025

Conduit Venture Labs Photos) Conduit Venture Labs , a Seattle startup lab founded in 2022 to help incubate and launch hardware-focused companies, has expanded its reach with Conduit Beacon , a service offered to outside founders, companies, VCs and research entities to help them execute and scale.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Because Windows 11 Pro has new hardware requirements, your upgrade strategy must both address hardware and software aspects, not to mention security, deployment plans, training, and more. Assess hardware compatibility Hardware refresh requires careful planning and sufficient lead time.

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Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

Amazon maintains its strong market-share lead with 32%, followed by Microsoft at 23% and Google at 12%. Both Microsoft and Google continue to grow their cloud revenues by about 30% year-on-year, which is pretty impressive for such large operations,” said Dinsdale.

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Network World

JULY 18, 2024

The Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) aims to validate the progress of quantum computer hardware and determine if it’s possible to build an industrially useful quantum computer faster than current predictions – which forecast serious quantum adoption is well over 10 years away.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

NGINX Plus is F5’s application security suite that includes a software load balancer, content cache, web server, API gateway, and microservices proxy designed to protect distributed web and mobile applications. The package will offer customers protection, scalability, and performance for advanced AI inference development, the vendors said.

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

Infrastructure agents from Cisco and Microsoft simultaneously validate security, identity and access, costs, and SLO compliance. IBM and Microsoft looking at agent overload Cisco isnt alone in exploring the impact of the proliferation of agents. For example, Microsoft has talked about how AI agents will impact application development.

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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Approximately 50% of the ~600 sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2023 were AI-related in some way. The post Microsoft Ignite 2023: Is Microsoft the Most Clear-Headed Company on AI? appeared first on Spiceworks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2025

Nordquist, speaking in a CIO webcast, commented: Since 2020 AMD has worked closely with Microsoft and OEM partners to better protect devices from firmware vulnerabilities and browser-based attacks. Today, were working together to embed future-ready AI capabilities like Microsoft Pluton into AI PCs for robust, hardware-based security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Second-generation AI PCs just hitting the market in 2025 will offer a substantial upgrade in performance, providing Silicon-on-Chip (SOC) NPUs that exceed 40 TOPS and 16GB of RAM requirements for the Copilot+ PC branding designated by Microsoft. AI PCs can run LLMs locally but for inferencing only not training models.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

One of the keys to SONiC is its switch-abstraction interface, which defines an API to provide a vendor-independent way of controlling forwarding elements such as a switching ASIC, an NPU, or a software switch in a uniform manner. In April 2022, Microsoft turned the project over to the Linux Foundation and its 450,000 developers.

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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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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

She joined Zuora, a startup that provides billing and subscription management software, scaling it from $30M to $300M in revenue and taking it public in 2018. When joining F5 , she reflected on her career and said, F5s evolution from hardware to software and SaaS mirrors my own professional journey and passion for transformation. >

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Explosive growth in cloud applications has depressed software license sales, and cloud platforms have upended the traditional on-premises server and storage market. In response, traditional software and hardware vendors are moving to the cloud via both acquisitions and launches of new cloud services. Read more.

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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. You get to a certain point where its cheaper to run it on your own hardware instead of running it in the cloud, Harvey says. Then theres the cost issue.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

The historical challenges with application compatibility of Windows on ARM have been addressed by Microsoft and Qualcomm. Software distribution Ensure your selected software distribution method deploys the optimal version for your specific Copilot+ PC3device. High speed internet and Microsoft account required.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

HPE Arubas CX 10000 high-end switch uses AMD DPUs, and other vendors such as Microsoft and IBM use the technology as well.) The AMD DPUs are based on technology developed by Pensando, which AMD bought in 2022 for $1.9

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2021

Microsoft’s fiscal fourth quarter earnings report mostly contained good news for the Xbox department. While 2021’s slow release calendar has created a sluggish market for third-party games, Xbox reported continued growth on hardware sales and Xbox Game Pass subscriptions. Xbox Series S (top) and X. Thomas Wilde Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Two ERP deployments in seven years is not for the faint of heart,” admits Dave Shannon, CIO of the hardware distribution firm. The company wanted to leverage all the benefits the cloud could bring, get out of the business of managing hardware and software, and not have to deal with all the complexities around security, he says.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveils Copilot + PCs, a linchpin of the companys plan to reinvent Windows, during a special event in Redmond in May 2024. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Editors Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giants past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2023

To help IT leaders keep tabs on their exposure to generative AI, CIO.com offers this round-up of the latest generative AI announcements from some of the major enterprise software vendors. July 2023 Microsoft adds Copilot abilities to Dynamics 365 suite Microsoft will roll out its Copilot generative AI assistant across more of its products.

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