Network World

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, scrutinizing its cloud computing, software licensing, cybersecurity, and AI businesses. The inquiry follows over a year of informal interviews with competitors and business partners, Bloomberg reported.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

In alphabetical order, they are: Hive, Microsoft, Nutanix, Scale and VergeIO. There are three software licensing options, including a free community edition for enterprises that want to kick the tires.The Hive Fabric Enterprise option includes HCI, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), guest pool deployments and user profile management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

Microsoft Power BI users will soon face hefty price increases of anywhere from 25% to 40%. This is not just Microsoft I hear from many clients who are due for renewals that their BI vendors are increasing prices, Forrester VP and principal analyst Boris Evelson told CIO. In some cases, very significantly. E5 costs $54.75

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

Microsoft on Wednesday reported strong earnings, but the percentage increase in its intelligent cloud operating income has dropped off sharply. Drop caused by AI investments: Microsoft The large percentage drops are primarily due to the fact that Microsoft, like all of the major hyperscalers, invested massively in generative AI.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 27, 2022

Only 104 critical vulnerabilities were reported in 2021, an all-time low for the world’s largest software company. The post Critical Microsoft vulnerabilities decreased 47% in 2021 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The software and services an organization chooses to fuel the enterprise can make or break its overall success. Indeeds 2024 Insights report analyzed the technology platforms most frequently listed in job ads on its site to uncover which tools, software, and programming languages are the most in-demand for job openings today.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The two companies are working on integrating Nvidia software with Dell hardware infrastructure. The software is available now, while the GPU update will be available by the end of the year. Separately, Dell announced it will offer support for Nvidia Tensor Core GPUs by the end of the year, including the H200 SXM cloud GPUs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The mother lode of meltdowns A faulty software update from cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike in mid-July caused about 8.5 CrowdStrike blamed a hole in its software testing tool for the flaw in a sensor configuration update released to Windows systemson July 19. But the thing is this isnt the first Microsoft chatbot thats gone rogue.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Other members of the consortium include Broadcom, Dell, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, Meta, Oracle, Microsoft and Red Hat. The group wants to improve compatibility between different hardware and software platforms, simplify software development, and identify “new architectural requirements and functions.”

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

Despite initiating a probe into Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, Microsoft has added the startups latest reasoning model R1, to its model catalog on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub. The Microsoft blog noted that its customers would soon be able to use distilled flavors of the R1 model to run locally on their Copilot+ PCs.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

ECCO, launched last November as part of an anti-competition settlement with Microsoft agreed to in July 2024, was also given a mandate on its formation to monitor other large software firms, including Broadcom/VMware, and issue a report on its findings. This may speed up Broadcoms course of action at some point.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Microsoft and Quantinuum announce 12 logical qubits Also in September, Microsoft announced that it partnered with Quantinuum to create 12 logical qubits, which, according to Krysta Svore, Microsofts vice president of advanced quantum development, was, at the time, the most logical qubits on record.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

IBM, Microsoft and Boeing all had big announcements to make, with some indications that the industry may be entering a new phase of development. But the software side is even more important when it comes to actual enterprise applications, and, this morning, IBM announced what amounts to a kind of app store for quantum software.

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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

JUNE 4, 2024

Microsoft has confirmed that it was laying off staffers from its Azure unit but did not provide an accurate number of employees affected. We will continue to prioritize and invest in strategic growth areas for our future and in support of our customers and partners,” a Microsoft spokesperson said.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Networking software provider Aviz Networks today announced a $17 million Series A funding round to accelerate its growth in open networking solutions and artificial intelligence capabilities.

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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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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Bitdefender is our overall pick for the best antivirus software for small businesses, while Norton offers 24/7 support, and ESET provides scalability.

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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. They use Altera’s HyperFlex architecture found in other Altera products to provide a 1.9x

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Network World

JULY 11, 2024

Microsoft has reportedly agreed to pay $22 million to settle an antitrust complaint with a group representing cloud computing companies in Europe. A complaint was filed in 2022 by CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers Europe) accusing Microsoft of unfair licensing practices that hurt Europe’s cloud computing ecosystem.

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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. headquarters.

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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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Network World

AUGUST 30, 2024

Cisco is now offering its AppDynamics application management suite as part of Microsoft Azure cloud services. Read more about network observability tools in our buyer’s guide ) “Together, we continue to expand our partnership with Microsoft.

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Network World

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It cited the MGM Resorts data breach, the Microsoft email hack, and the FBot malware targeting web servers, cloud services, and software-as-a-service, which achieves persistency and propagates on AWS via AWS IAM (identity and access management) users as three examples of how the keys could be abused.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

She has also worked at Microsoft, Google — and also at Salesforce, much earlier in her career. SalesforceIQ, a software development company he co-founded in 2015, was acquired by Salesforce in 2018, while his next venture, low-code platform vendor Airkit, was swallowed up by Salesforce in October 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This is good news and will drive innovation, particularly for enterprise software developers. Unlike Microsoft and the PC operating system, Google search, and Metas social media, it doesnt look like any single model developer is going to have a controlling interest in shaping the evolution of AI in the near-term.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Acumatica has released a new “edition” of its cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software tailored to the needs of mid-size professional services firms. The number of potential customers for Acumatica’s new functionality — or similar products from competitors — is huge. trillion in 2024, according to The Business Research Company.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

AI coding agents are poised to take over a large chunk of software development in coming years, but the change will come with intellectual property legal risk, some lawyers say. The same thing could happen with software code, even though companies don’t typically share their source code, he says. How was the AI trained?

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Network World

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

To overcome these challenges, Neudesic helps organisations through its expertise, cutting-edge technology, and strong partnerships with Microsoft, having won the Microsoft Partner of the Year award over 20 times. We are also back by IBM and an awarded Microsoft partner.

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Network World

JANUARY 8, 2025

The blueprints require Nvidias AI Enterprise Software, which means it can only be run on cloud services from AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle or Nvidia certified data center equipment from Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro. The blueprints run on Nvidias new Nemotron models, built on Metas Llama LLM.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2025

GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) This week on the GeekWire Podcast, Seattle-area software developer and AI entrepreneur Patrick Husting of Ghostwriter AI and the Equestrian App returns to talk about the evolution of artificial intelligence over the past two years, how people are using the technology today, and where things are headed next.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2024

In the wake of the widespread outage caused by a defective update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon cybersecurity platform, Delta Airlines is among the first enterprises to come forward to demand compensation from CrowdStrike and Microsoft for the enormous losses caused by the interruption of its flights during the failure. A shift ahead?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI. That’s risky.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

At its Microsoft Ignite 2024 show in Chicago this week, Microsoft and industry partner experts showed off the power of small language models (SLMs) with a new set of fine-tuned, pre-trained AI models using industry-specific data. The company notes that customers can also use the models to configure agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

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