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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO Business Intelligence

But for Koch Industries, a $115 billion global conglomerate that has acquired five companies in two years, including Infor for $13 billion in 2020, connecting those acquisitions’ networks to its own sprawling network has been a challenge of another magnitude. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says. Laying the foundation.

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO Business Intelligence

The UK-based accounting and tax consulting firm was one of few accountants in the UK that weathered the 2020 tax season without a hitch, thanks to its early bet on SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. We increased our resources by a couple hundred people, and we couldn’t have done it without the Virtual Desktop.”.

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Microsoft President Brad Smith warns that U.S. is repeating a key Sept. 11 mistake in digital era

GeekWire

One anecdote illustrates the challenge from Microsoft’s perspective: “Repeatedly in late 2020 we found people in federal agencies asking us about information in other parts of the government, because it was easier to get it from us than directly from other federal employees. The reality, he says, is somewhere in between.

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The mainframe is dying: Long live the mainframe application!

CIO Business Intelligence

The z900 also had one of the longest periods of follow-on service, at 8.5 IBM’s current mainframe models, the z15 T01 and z15 T02, were introduced in September 2019 and May 2020 respectively, and the company still offers follow-on service for machines right back to the zEC12 released in September 2012.

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GeekWire Podcast: Seattle region’s new tech giant; ‘Slackforce’ analysis; AWS re:Invent takeaways

GeekWire

billion; Amazon Web Services makes some surprising news at its annual re:Invent cloud conference ; and a new tech giant arrives in our backyard. — Matt McIlwain (@mattmcilwain) December 1, 2020. The data warehousing company surpassed a $100 billion valuation this week. Matt McIlwain. Madrona Photo).

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The impact of 5G and cloud on telco capex and opex

TM Forum

On top of this another 10%-15% could be saved by implementing a shared backhaul function to common data centers. On average, the percentage of total revenues that B2B services (connectivity and beyond) represent, reached 30% in 2020 for many major operators. But it is not all about the technology costs.

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Seven Trends and Predictions for 2017

CTOvision

By 2020 major international cities will have car-free downtowns. Adoption of IoT devices will exceed predictions, reaching 50 billion devices by 2020. Prediction: Don’t expect machines to become sentient, but expect Microsoft and Google virtual assistants to actually become helpful. Trend #2—Internet of Things (IoT).

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