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The mainframe is dying: Long live the mainframe application!

CIO Business Intelligence

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. The future of mainframe-as-a-service. Career counseling.

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Amazon expanding ‘upskill’ training for software developer roles to workers outside of company

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Amazon announced Tuesday that it is expanding one of its so-called “upskilling” programs to people outside of the company who are interested in acquiring training for roles in software engineering. workforce in July 2019, committing at the time to a five-year initiative called “Upskilling 2025.”

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Microsoft invests €3.2 billion in AI and the cloud in Germany

CIO Business Intelligence

billion in Germany by the end of 2025 to double the artificial intelligence and cloud capacities of its data centers there. The company also wants to train more than 1.2 New data centres After doubling the capacity of its own data centers in Germany in 2023, Microsoft intends to double it again by the end of 2025.

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Sana Biotechnology will cut 15% of its workforce in latest layoffs affecting Seattle companies

GeekWire

Seattle-based cell and gene therapy company Sana Biotechnology will reduce its workforce by 15%, according to a statement issued Tuesday. The company said it was shutting a program focused on heart failure and outlined reset priorities for other programs. The company has operations in Seattle, South San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass.

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Deutsche Telekom calls on SAP for Rise all-in-one offer

CIO Business Intelligence

Deutsche Telekom intends to migrate systems used by its European operating companies to Rise over the next two years. It’s already five years since the company embarked on its ERP modernization journey. Those systems are used by national operating companies in Germany and across the European Union.

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Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization

CIO Business Intelligence

By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale. Every company is different based on its industry, its available resources, and its needs.

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NLP Isn’t Enough. Leading Financial Services Companies Are Now Moving to Conversational AI.

CIO Business Intelligence

Today, most banks, insurance companies, and other kinds of financial services firms have deployed natural language processing (NLP) tools to address some of their customer service needs. According to IDC , worldwide spending on AI will likely top $204 billion by 2025. Good for customers, good for companies.