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

MARCH 17, 2025

In estimating the cost of a large-scale VMware migration , Gartner cautions: VMwares server virtualization platform has become the point of integration for its customers across server, storage and network infrastructure in the data center. HCI vendors include Nutanix , Scale, Microsoft Azure Stack and others.

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Virtualization Strategy Enterprise Enterprise 429

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. These applications require AI-optimized servers, storage, and networking and all the components need to be configured so that they work well together. Its a brand-new skill set.

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Network Storage Training Enterprise 402

Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Google took over the top spot for malicious downloads from Microsoft OneDrive as attackers created free accounts, uploaded malware and shared documents with unsuspecting users, says Netskope.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Microsoft OneDrive accounts for 26% of the overall usage of cloud storage apps to host malware, ahead of Microsoft PowerPoint and GitHub.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) today determined that Microsoft has particular market power. In the complaint, the group, which called itself the Coalition for a Level Playing Field , accused Microsoft of pushing OneDrive “wherever users deal with file storage and Teams is a default part of Windows 11.

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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. Earlier this year, Microsoft President Brad Smith said the company is on track to invest nearly $80 billion to build out AI-enabled data centers this fiscal year.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

based startup CarbonQuest announced a partnership with Iceland-based Carbfix , a global leader in carbon storage, to team up in deploying technologies that address climate change. The technology is already being used in Europe, including a site in Iceland that has Microsoft as one of its customers and investors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The data is spread out across your different storage systems, and you don’t know what is where. Maximizing GPU use is critical for cost-effective AI operations, and the ability to achieve it requires improved storage throughput for both read and write operations. Planned innovations: Disaggregated storage architecture.

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Computer Weekly

JULY 5, 2017

Despite lingering trust issues, storage and backup are key use cases in the public cloud, says Barracuda survey. Meanwhile, Microsoft Azure is Europe’s favourite cloud provider

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Storage Cloud Backup Survey 258

Tech Republic Security

JUNE 27, 2022

Microsoft 365 provides powerful services within Office 365 — but a extensive backup of your Office 365 data is not one of them. Veeam® Backup for Microsoft 365 removes the risk of losing access and control over your Office 365 data, including OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Microsoft Teams — so that.

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Microsoft Backup Data Storage 381

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

Strategic use of hyper-converged technology to alleviate challenges Addressing these concerns, IDC, together with Dell Technologies and Microsoft, recently held a discussion on how most of these challenges can be addressed with the strategic use of hyper-converged technologies.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Supermicro, which designs and manufactures high-performance servers, storage systems, and other IT infrastructure, has had a turbulent few months, even as the year has shown great promise amidst frenzied demand for AI-ready infrastructure.

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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

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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Network World

MARCH 18, 2025

Thus, the company is facing growing competition, even from its own customers, including Google, which is working on the next generation of its Tensor Processing Units to rival GPUs, Microsoft, which offers its custom-designed Azure chips, and, of course, Amazon. For Amazon, thats the Trainium, the Graviton processor, and the Inferentia chip.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A plethora of AI tools are already on the market, from open-source options to capabilities offered by internet giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Beware of escalating AI costs for data storage and computing power. Beware of escalating AI costs for data storage and computing power.

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GeekWire

APRIL 1, 2025

Patti Thibodeau, Microsoft Archivist, left, shows Microsoft’s Albuquerque team photo and a related memo. 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.] REDMOND, Wash.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

NetApp’s BlueXP offers a single integrated pane of glass for monitoring, troubleshooting and managing NetApp storage systems including OnCommand Network Attached Storage Protocol (ONTAP), All flash (AFF), and the Microsoft-NetApp developed Azure NetApp Files (ANF). “By

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

There’s many opinions on whether to protect Microsoft 365 data — but what are the hard facts? busting session with Associate Research Director at IDC, Archana Venkatraman, as she shares her latest research and insights on: The state of the Microsoft 365 data protection market Why it is an imperative to protect Microsoft.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2024

” Benioff is almost as strong in his negative sentiments toward Microsoft’s Copilot. He calls Copilot the second coming of Microsoft’s much-maligned “Clippy” Office assistant, and asserts that the Redmond company is giving AI a bad name by disappointing customers with underwhelming results and lax security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

AWS, Microsoft, and Google may continue to dominate the enterprise cloud market, but a raft of second-tier cloud providers are proving to be valuable partners for organizations and innovators with specialized workloads and use cases especially in the burgeoning AI era. Athos Therapeutics is one such enterprise.

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CTOvision

MARCH 30, 2021

The new frozen data tier makes object stores like Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Storage, and Google Cloud Storage fully […]. The new features are designed to enable users to uncover insights and drive action with their data through the power of search.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Network World

JUNE 12, 2024

Whether it’s in your data center, an IaaS vendor like AWS, or a SaaS vendor like Microsoft 365, it needs independent backup. They blamed their storage vendor rather than taking responsibility. Native retention policies in Microsoft 365 did not allow recovery; in fact, they were the cause of the data loss.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 5, 2019

Microsoft Azure’s now has a new service that allows users to run virtual machines to run a single-tenant physical server. With this new feature, people can now use the cloud storage of Azure to run a private server. This new feature is called the Azure Dedicated Host. The Azure Dedicated Host is great for businesses […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

Reliable large language models (LLMs) with advanced reasoning capabilities require extensive data processing and massive cloud storage, which significantly increases cost. Cost and accuracy concerns also hinder adoption. EXL builds upon this foundation with a multi-agent orchestration framework and deep industry expertise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

In addition to flexible and quickly available computing and storage infrastructure, the cloud promises a wide range of services that make it easy to set up and operate digital business processes. They combine public cloud services from AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, for example.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

On the IaaS offerings front, the price hikes will be applied to bare metal servers, virtual server instances, file and block storage, and networking infrastructure for both classic and virtual private cloud ( VPC ) offerings, the company said. Cloud Computing, IBM

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Network World

MAY 24, 2024

Expert panel The CMA commissioned research among 50 medium to large UK public cloud customers (pdf) who use one of the five largest cloud providers in the UK, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. Microsoft shops may pick Microsoft Azure, for example, as the most convenient option.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2023

Transformation using these technologies is not just about finding ways to reduce energy consumption now,” says Binu Jacob, Head of IoT, Microsoft Business Unit, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

Secure storage, together with data transformation, monitoring, auditing, and a compliance layer, increase the complexity of the system. For example, Mosaic recently created a data-heavy Mosaic GPT safety model for mining operations on Microsofts Bing platform, and is about to roll that out in a pilot.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Soon that same power will reach out to embrace Microsoft Windows, too. The challenge with that approach is that eventually it can’t scale because there is just far too much data and associated storage requirements. At the eBPF Summit on Sept. The open-source eBFP technology enables users to run code safely in the Linux kernel.

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

Additionally, enterprises can make use of Dynamos Memory Manager ability to offload inference data to more affordable memory and storage devices and quickly retrieve them when needed, minimizing inference costs, the chipmaker added.

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Network World

APRIL 5, 2018

This location houses most of the equipment for compute, storage, communications, and security, and this is where enterprise applications are traditionally hosted. For people in branch and other remote locations, traffic is typically backhauled to this hub before going out to other locations, including to the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In September last year, the company started collocating its Oracle database hardware (including Oracle Exadata) and software in Microsoft Azure data centers , giving customers direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) via Azure.

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Tech Republic Big Data

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Microsoft leak, which stemmed from AI researchers sharing open-source training data on GitHub, has been mitigated.

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Microsoft Open Source Storage Data 143