CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

In terms of raw server and storage capacity, enterprise data centers will not be shrinking at all. According to a June 2024 IDC survey , about 80% of 2,250 IT decision-maker respondents expected to see some level of repatriation of compute and storage resources in the next 12 months. They will remain relatively stable, says Synergy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In some cases, the AI add-ons will be subscription models, like Microsoft Copilot, and sometimes, they will be free, like Salesforce Einstein, he says. The company also plans to increase spending on cybersecurity tools and personnel, he adds, and it will focus more resources on advanced analytics, data management, and storage solutions.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 27, 2014

As it joins the Open Compute Project, Microsoft can now show the world the custom server and storage designs that power its global armada of more than 1 million servers. Blades Microsoft' Here''s a closer look.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Its especially attractive as an alternative to MPLS, promising to do for wide-area backbones what the cloud did for compute, storage, and application development. As with other as-a-service offerings, the idea behind BBaaS is to simplify the process of providing secure, high-performance connectivity across geographic regions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

A new generation of AI-ready PCs deliver the hardware specs and design features to drive AI adoption in the workforce and optimise work. Dell Copilot+ PCs have a dedicated keyboard button (look for the ribbon logo) for jumping to Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant. Content-based and storage limitations apply.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 14, 2022

IaaS is defined as the use of IT hardware and software infrastructure components like compute power or storage, utilized through the cloud in a flexible consumption or subscription-based model. Like SaaS, it is an all-inclusive category that can span the entire IT infrastructure portfolio from compute to storage to networks.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

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. Companies can use Apstra’s automation capabilities to deliver consistent network and security policies for workloads across physical and virtual infrastructures. headquarters.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Sony has confirmed to The Verge that you won’t be able to expand that blazing-fast SSD storage on day one. PlayStation hardware architect Mark Cerny spent several minutes talking up the SSD storage expansion feature as part of his technical preview back in March, but he also said at the time that support was likely to be “a bit past” launch.

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Network World

MAY 30, 2024

Alibaba’s recent move to reduce prices of several cloud services, including compute, storage, and database offerings among others, is seen by experts as a strategy to attract new customers in emerging markets as competing in China heats up. The growth in generative AI, approximately a CAGR of 73.3%

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This appears to put AWS at roughly the same UK investment level as rivals Microsoft and Google. Given that AWS did not break down the investment in terms of employees, contractors, hardware, software, and other items, it’s impossible to know what this investment will specifically buy. Not able to provide a breakdown, I’m afraid.”

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TechSpot

JUNE 9, 2022

According to a report from analytics company Trendfocus (via Tom's Hardware), Microsoft is pushing those OEMs who use HDDs as the primary storage device in pre-built Windows 11 PCs to switch to SSDs. It's even set a deadline for when it wants the transition to take place: 2023.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 25, 2021

(Microsoft Image). Microsoft has announced the release date for its forthcoming first-person shooter Halo Infinite , as well as a lineup of special-edition Xbox hardware meant to celebrate the video game franchise’s 20 th anniversary. 8, Microsoft confirmed Wednesday at the German gaming conference Gamescom.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. Microsoft offers a similar service called Microsoft Azure Stack. The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

Microsoft is announcing today that it won’t block people from installing Windows 11 on most older PCs. Microsoft announced its Windows 11 minimum hardware requirements in June, and made it clear that only Intel 8th Gen and beyond CPUs were officially supported. Windows 11 will now run on older CPUs.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

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. > Her resume includes stints at Deloitte Consulting, USB Investment Bank, Red Hat, Oracle, GE Digital, and Microsoft.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. He went with cloud provider Wasabi for those storage needs. “We growth experienced in 2022.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 9, 2023

Microsoft has acquired Fungible , a 6-year-old startup that helps companies with data center storage and networking needs. (Fungible Photo). Fungible, based in Silicon Valley, raised a $200 million Series C round led by SoftBank in 2019 and cut its workforce in August. Earlier reports pegged the deal at $190 million.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

So we’ll do a lot of work around how to create the operating environments, the compute or the storage or the GPU as-a-service models to really start to test and play with the operating capability, or help them define how to move their operating workloads into those environments effectively,” Shagoury said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 14, 2024

Nearly a third (31%) of respondents said they are building internal private clouds using hybrid cloud management solutions such as software-defined storage and API-consistent hardware to make the private cloud more like public cloud, Forrester adds. billion in 2024, and more than double by 2027. billion in 2024 and grow to $66.4

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

Microsoft Photo). Microsoft announced this morning that it will release Windows 11 on Oct. Microsoft will use what it calls a “phased and measured approach” that assesses a PC’s specs to determine when Windows Update will offer the upgrade. ” It’s part of a broader refresh of the Microsoft Store.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The world’s largest and most northerly commercial satellite ground station, KSAT’s Svalbard Station in Norway’s Arctic archipelago, will be part of Microsoft’s Azure Orbital network. ” Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. Microsoft Graphic). KSAT Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

For instance, IDC predicts that the amount of commercial data in storage will grow to 12.8 Implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) is projected to reduce account compromise attempts by 90% according to a Microsoft report. Data volumes continue to expand at an exponential rate, with no sign of slowing down. ZB by 2026.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2014

For those not familiar or who need a recap, VCE was created to create converged server, storage I/O networking hardware and software solutions combing technologies from its investors resulting in solutions called vBlocks.

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2021

Microsoft is starting to submerge its servers in liquid to improve their performance and energy efficiency. This immersion process has existed in the industry for a few years now, but Microsoft claims it’s “the first cloud provider that is running two-phase immersion cooling in a production environment.”. Image: Microsoft.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Edge data centers include hardware, software, applications, data management, connectivity, gateways, security, and advanced analytics. Dell: The Dell Native Edge platform includes hardware, storage, software, gateways, and consulting services to help businesses centrally manage and securely scale their edge across multiple locations.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Microsoft gave an update on its Secure Future Initiative. Charlie Bell, EVP of Microsoft Security, in 2022. The deputy CISOs report directly to Microsoft’s Chief Information Security Office, led by Igor Tsyganskiy as Microsoft’s CISO. government officials. and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

When Houston-based Axiom Space starts putting together its commercial space station, some out-of-this-world infrastructure for cloud computing could be close behind — and Microsoft could help make it happen. Steve Kitay, senior director of Microsoft Azure Space, is fully on board. ” he asked.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 22, 2017

Data storage regardless of if hardware, legacy, new, emerging, cloud service or various software defined storage (SDS) approaches are all fundamental resource components of data infrastructures along with compute server, I/O networking as well as management tools, techniques, processes and procedures.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2022

Image: Microsoft. Microsoft appears to be testing a new type of ad inside File Explorer on Windows 11. Microsoft MVP and Twitter user Florian Beaubois discovered an ad in the latest test build of Windows 11, prompting users to check out the Microsoft Editor. pic.twitter.com/rusnyrYyX2 — Florian (@flobo09) March 12, 2022.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 18, 2021

” That makes the International Space Station an extreme case study for edge computing, the concept of bringing storage and processing closer to the source of data to improve speed and reduce the bandwidth needed for cloud computing. Microsoft Azure corporate vice president. Spaceborne Computer-2 (HPE Image).

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2021

Now that Microsoft has announced Windows 11 , you may be wondering what you’ll need to install it. Confirming information pulled from last week’s leak , all you’ll need to run it is a 64-bit CPU (or SoC), 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage, specs that are only slightly higher than Windows 10’s current requirements. RAM: 4 gigabyte (GB).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

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. 1 – Security. These are just some of the security challenges IT faces.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It offers global compute, storage, data protection, and client device as-a-Service solutions, enabling cloud adjacency, multicloud connectivity, and a full suite of hosting, outsourcing, and application management services through Dell and its global partners.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 10, 2025

Here are five strategies being employed by Seattle-area data center hyperscalers Microsoft and Amazon. Microsoft signed a deal in September to restart a nuclear reactor at Pennsylvanias Three Mile Island a facility made infamous by a partial meltdown in 1979. Microsoft has deployed battery systems at sites in Europe.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Putting hardware, software, and network technology at the edge, where data originates, can speed responsiveness, enable compute-hungry AI processing, and greatly improve both employee and customer experience. A central location might also be the nexus of data storage and backup. We didn’t want vendor lock-in,” he explains.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

To that end, AWS has been increasing efforts to educate large enterprise customers on how to adopt intelligent tiering storage options to reduce costs of hosting dormant data — while paying premium for the data in most active use in applications running on AWS. Microsoft has not responded to that as of press time.

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