Network World

MAY 24, 2024

Factors such as egress fees — which service providers charge customers for extracting data from their cloud — and preliminary discounts might be contributing to vendor lock-in, regulators fear. Software licensing practices were not widely viewed, in isolation, as influencing the choice of public cloud provider.

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Cloud Licensing Artificial Intelligence Survey 417

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

But this enthusiasm is tempered by the realities of implementation and integration, coupled with fear of over-depending on rapidly evolving AI cloud service providers. Substantial numbers of organizations will always be wary of service providers or unable to fully entrust their fate to them, especially in such a rapidly changing field.

Artificial Intelligence 191

Artificial Intelligence Budget Survey Web Services 191

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.

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Cloud Web Services Licensing Storage 322

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella directed the company’s security team to boost a bounty program for AI and cloud bugs during one of Microsoft’s weekly Secure Future Initiative meetings. It’s part of a new initiative and planned 2025 hacking event in Redmond that Microsoft is calling the Zero Day Quest.

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Microsoft Security Cloud Programming 110

GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. Jassy showed stats that put AWS’s share of the cloud infrastructure market at 45%, more than double its closest competitor, Microsoft Azure. Screenshot via webcast). Amazon Photo).

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Web Services Cloud Microsoft Virtualization 145

TechSpot

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) and Microsoft have entered talks to resolve a lawsuit the organization brought against Redmond over its cloud licensing policies. Read Entire Article

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Microsoft Cloud Web Services Licensing 120

GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will join Amazon Web Services as its new CEO. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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Web Services CTO Hire Cloud Software 145

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

JANUARY 10, 2024

Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. Refactor your applications to take advantage of web services or serverless capabilities, and re-architect your infrastructure to optimize resource usage,” he says. Open and transparent communication with vendors is essential.

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Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO Budget 312

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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SAP Architecture Licensing Cloud 245

CTOvision

MARCH 13, 2017

Major cloud infrastructure services like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services have fueled new hiring strategies, with 81% of enterprises adopting DevOps strategies and engineers. Still, for business leaders without a strong technical background, cloud computing can seem almost impenetrable.

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Cloud Real Estate Data Center Software 249

GeekWire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Competition and Markets Authority’s cloud investigation is shaping up as Microsoft’s latest tangle with UK regulators. These may increase barriers to multi cloud and switching; The software licensing practices by some cloud services providers which may reduce competition or raise barriers to entry.

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Microsoft Cloud Web Services Licensing 110

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

For example, in April, the CEOs of leading tech companies — including Microsoft, OpenAI, Alphabet and Amazon Web Services — joined an AI safety and security board with the mission of advising the federal government on how to protect critical infrastructure. These are OK, please use those,'” he said.

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Artificial Intelligence Examples Government Airlines 116

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

Under his leadership, VMware witnessed significant strides in transforming to the subscription licensing model, aligning business strategies with market trends and customer needs. In past roles at VMware, Ahmar has been responsible for VMware Cloud on AWS, AWS Sales Synergy, and Cloud Economics business development. Cloud Computing

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Vmware Cloud Programming Web Services 246

GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

GeekWire File Photo Microsoft’s revenue rose 2% to $52.7 The company reported strength in some of its products and services for businesses, led by a 22% increase in Microsoft Cloud revenue, to $27.1 However, other parts of Microsoft’s business experienced significant declines. Windows revenue fell 27% to $4.8

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Microsoft Report Windows Cloud 129

GeekWire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft will report its fiscal first quarter earnings Tuesday afternoon. Analysts are keeping a close eye on the company’s cloud division, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic and related stay-at-home orders increase demand for its products and services. It was a busy quarter for Microsoft.

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Microsoft Report Web Services Cloud 113

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The CIO of a regulatory agency that reports to the US Securities and Exchange Commission — one of the biggest cloud consumers in the world — has made it his mission to help other CIOs — and Amazon Web Services itself — improve cloud computing. Microsoft has not responded to that as of press time.

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Cloud Data Center Web Services Data 264

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

Eight years ago, McGlennon hosted an off-site think tank with his staff and came up with a “technology manifesto document” that defined in those early days the importance of exploiting cloud-based services, becoming more agile, and instituting cultural changes to drive the company’s digital transformation.

Cloud 363

Cloud Insurance Applications Data 363

GeekWire

APRIL 12, 2023

Employees of companies that issue credentials using Microsoft’s Verified ID will see a prompt in LinkedIn to verify their workplace. LinkedIn will offer a new workplace verification system that uses Microsoft Entra Verified ID to issue credentials. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for more than $26 billion in 2016.

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Microsoft Authentication Web Services Licensing 127

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

Containers are faster to start up, drive higher server efficiencies, and reduce server and licensing costs. Container-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings such as Google Cloud Anthos, Red Hat Open Shift, VMWare Tanzu Application Service, and SUSE Rancher are also prevalent. In conclusion.

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Operating Systems Applications Enterprise Enterprise 246

GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

Slack will shift to Amazon Web Services’ Chime infrastructure for voice and video calls on its platform under an expanded partnership announced by the companies Thursday afternoon. Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform competes with AWS and Microsoft Teams has been going head-to-head with Slack in collaboration technology.

Web Services 121

Web Services Licensing Microsoft Cloud 121

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 17, 2022

It’s basically a stronger set of security authentication measures, in essence, a better security ‘handshake’ between the device and a third-party service. Companies in the alliance include board-level members like Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, and other tech-heavy hitters.

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Authentication Security Web Services Tools 264

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 27, 2022

Eight years ago, McGlennon hosted an off-site think tank with his staff and came up with a “technology manifesto document” that defined in those early days the importance of exploiting cloud-based services, becoming more agile, and instituting cultural changes to drive the company’s digital transformation.

Cloud 246

Cloud Insurance Applications Data 246

GeekWire

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Matt Wood, Amazon Web Services VP of Product, shows some of the third-party services that Amazon Connects with in its new Amazon Q artificial intelligence tool for work. We sell a lot of Windows licenses on EC2 as an example, and through Amazon WorkSpaces,” he said. “NEED GPU?”

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Web Services Artificial Intelligence Conference Microsoft 123

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When this no longer became tenable, Microsoft led the way and started its Trustworthy Computing initiative in 2002. And look at this sample of the end-user license agreement (EULA) for the flashlight app, which shows significant data-gathering requirements for a simple flashlight.

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Backup Information Security Security Cloud 321

GeekWire

JUNE 28, 2024

Amazon will use some of Adept’s technology as part of a non-exclusive license. Prasad said the license from Adept “will accelerate our roadmap for building digital agents that can automate software workflows.” Microsoft previously invested in Inflection. ” David Luan.

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Enterprise Enterprise Licensing Report 111

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. Microsoft Photo). And the security of Microsoft’s software is still falling well short of Gates’ vision. “Your code will be attacked.”

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Microsoft Security Web Services Software 106

GeekWire

MAY 11, 2023

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy highlighted generative AI in his recent shareholder letter , and Microsoft continues to push out a stream of AI product announcements. Batalov touted Amazon’s Code Whisperer , which offers a tool that vets AI-generated code and provides links to sources, while also checking for licensing requirements.

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Enterprise Enterprise Engineering Open Source 134

GeekWire

AUGUST 16, 2024

Federal Trade Commission in June when it hired the founders of Adept , a well-funded startup building AI agents that automate enterprise workflows, and struck a licensing deal with the company. This division has been led by former Microsoft executive Panos Panay since last fall. Canada, Ireland, Romania, and Estonia.

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Artificial Intelligence Web Services Licensing Cloud 135

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The Microsoft-IBM Cloud Computing Alliance will be model as other IT behemoths partner to take down Amazon Web Services. Local licensing of taxis, hotels and similar businesses will implode under the weight of digital transformation.

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Social Mobile Cloud Data Center 169

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Or should it make it easier to shift OpenStack clouds to Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine for companies that want to use both approaches in a hybrid infrastructure? JVC quickly licensed VHS, giving up control, while Sony didn’t take what the consumers wanted into account. Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center.

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Google Data Center Cloud Open Source 199

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

Nvidia hopes to allay those concerns by striking a licensing deal with stock image library Getty Images, which says it will pay royalties to artists on revenue generated by models trained on the works in its database. These 3D designs will be available for use in industrial digital twins running on Nvidia’s Omniverse platform.

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Enterprise 3D Training 130

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Analysis: Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda is a massive disruption for the video game industry. Microsoft started its working week by announcing that it intends to purchase ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, for $7.5 Azure Orbital launches Microsoft into cloud-based space race with Amazon.

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Microsoft Licensing Conference Web Services 76

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

Delivering services based on the same consistent VMware Cloud Foundation stack enables partners to focus less on infrastructure and more on differentiating their managed services and specialization. One Simplified Business Model – All services offered by VCSPs will now be based on a per core subscription license.

Vmware 147

Vmware Cloud Programming Licensing 147

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, is concerned the market for public cloud infrastructure services is concentrated in the hands of just three providers, limiting competition and making it difficult for enterprises to switch or use multiple suppliers. Those three providers—AWS, Microsoft, and Google—argue the contrary.

Cloud 130

Cloud Microsoft Enterprise Enterprise 130

Fountainhead

APRIL 23, 2012

From the cloud API perspective, there are a few likely contenders/winners here: The Amazon Web Services (AWS) approach: arguably dominating the market at the moment, explicitly supported by Eucalyptus, as well as by Nebula, and CloudStack. As the public and service provider cloud market matures, natural "Camps" will form around them.

Cloud 180

Cloud Vmware Data Center Virtualization 180

GeekWire

AUGUST 4, 2023

The declining percentage comes from noticeably slower growth in the online segment over the past couple years (including year-over year declines in some recent quarters) and the continued growth of the company’s revenue from areas including third party seller services, Amazon Web Services, and advertising services.

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.Net Artificial Intelligence Web Services Advertising 98