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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Private cloud providers may be among the key beneficiaries of today’s generative AI gold rush as, once seemingly passé in favor of public cloud, CIOs are giving private clouds — either on-premises or hosted by a partner — a second look. The excitement and related fears surrounding AI only reinforces the need for private clouds.

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Alibaba Cloud is betting on emerging markets with massive price cuts

Network World

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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Building sustainability at the edge of the enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

The enterprise edge has become a growing area of innovation as organizations increasingly understand that not every workload — particularly new edge workloads — can move to the cloud. Generating business value from this data will require significant growth in edge computing deployments.

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IDC: Pace of enterprise applications sales will increase next year

CIO Business Intelligence

IDC forecasts the growth rate of enterprise applications software sales will pick up in 2024, and remain steady through 2027, despite a dip this year as a result of CIOs continuing to pull back on spending due to economic headwinds. through 2027. Software sales grew 9.8% It expects that growth rate to dip to 8.5%

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How being cloud smart fosters growth at Saab

CIO Business Intelligence

Stockholm-based Saab recently announced that it’s significantly raising its growth targets for 2027 from 10 to 15%, an increase linked to the war in Ukraine and the fact that many countries are now rearming, which is clearly evident from Saab’s increased order intake. That kind of technology needs to be tested completely in-house.

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SAP offers faster updates, longer maintenance for S/4HANA in private clouds

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP is doubling the time between major releases of S/4HANA Cloud private edition from one year to two — at the same time promising to release new feature packs every six months or so to keep up the pace of innovation. That’s just as well, as SAP is only promising mainstream support ECC through the end of 2027.

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The impact of AI on edge computing

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprises are moving computing resources closer to where data is created, making edge locations ideal for not only collecting and aggregating local data but also for consuming it as input for generative processes. billion in 2027 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 86.1% over the 2023-2027 forecast period 1.

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