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SAP publishes open source manifesto

CIO Business Intelligence

It arrives alongside the announcement of SAP’s Open Reference Architecture project as part of the EU’s IPCEI-CIS initiative. It’s an open secret that even proprietary software contains open source components these days, and major vendors are, to varying extents, supporting or participating in open source projects.

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Regulators sound out users on cloud services competition concerns

Network World

These, along with issues such as software licensing, could disincentivise customers from using rival cloud providers, thereby stifling innovation and inhibiting competition in the cloud service market. Private clouds and software-as-a-service offerings were considered out of scope.

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6 Key considerations when orchestrating your Windows 11 Pro upgrade

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Refer to Windows 11 Pro specifications and run Microsoft’s PC Health Check app to see if a laptop meets specific requirements.

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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Weve developed our software such that the LLM open source or proprietary can be swapped in or out via configuration. An abundance of choice In the most general definition, open source here refers to the code thats available, and that the model can be modified and used for free in a variety of contexts. Too many to choose from?

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SUSE plans more support for gen AI workloads

Network World

The universal business model is that the CIO wants throats to choke,” Weinberg said, referring to the ability to control employees and contractors that your team has hired, versus an employee or contractor working for the cloud vendor. As for the software, Iams said that “open source is not always going to be cheaper than closed source.

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Broadcom EMEA CTO: ‘When it comes to building private clouds, we are first’

Network World

When I joined VMware, we only had a hypervisor – referring to a single software [instance] that can be used to run multiple virtual machines on a physical one – we didn’t have storage or networking.” That’s where we came up with this vision: people would build private clouds with fully software-defined networks, storage and computing.

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AI dominates Gartner’s 2025 predictions

CIO Business Intelligence

By 2027, 70% of new contracts for employees will include licensing and fair usage clauses for AI representations of their personas. For example, Gartner said it is expecting a proliferation of “agentic AI,” which refers to intelligent software entities that use AI techniques to complete tasks and achieve goals.

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