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Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’

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Helion plans to build the commercial facility in Washington state, where the companies are headquartered. The goal is to get the plant running by 2028. Microsoft needs clean electricity to fuel the operations of its more than 200 energy-hungry data centers internationally.

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IT services spending signals major role change for CIOs ahead

CIO Business Intelligence

2 IT spending slot by 2028. increase in data center systems spending, demonstrating an uptick for on-premises strategies buoyed in part by ongoing scrutiny of cloud costs and returns on cloud investments among IT leaders. Rent vs. buy Breaking down its projections, Gartner sees IT services spending increasing 8.7%

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Steps Gerresheimer takes to transform its IT

CIO Business Intelligence

By mid-2023, Walldorf-based Gerresheimer had its IT strategy revised, and a central component of this was its cloud journey, for which CIO Zafer Nalbant and his team built a hybrid environment consisting of a public cloud part based on Microsoft Azure, and a private cloud part that runs in a data center completely managed by T-Systems.

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What is a managed service provider? Strategic outsourcing for IT services

CIO Business Intelligence

A managed service provider (MSP) is an outsourcer contracted to remotely manage or deliver IT services such as network, application, infrastructure, or security management to a client company by assuming full responsibility for those services, determining proactively what technologies and services are needed to fulfill the client’s needs.

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10 most powerful ERP vendors today

CIO Business Intelligence

By 2028, 85% of enterprises using intelligent applications will have evolved to run as autonomous organizations, redefining the technology resource usage within the business.” Power moves: Not resting on its laurels, SAP has announced a company-wide transformation program and restructuring aimed at strategic growth areas, particularly AI.

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3 force multipliers for digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Tech companies have laid off over 250 thousand employees since 2022, and 93% of CEOs report preparing for a US recession over the next 12 to 18 months. Some IT organizations elected to lift and shift apps to the cloud and get out of the data center faster, hoping that a second phase of funding for modernization would come.

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Are quantum computers for real? So far, the uncertainty principle rules the day

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The IonQ Forte quantum system is roughly the same size as a standard data center cabinet. A data center cabinet? One of the slides shown at the summit suggests that IonQ is targeting 64 algorithmic qubits in 2025, and 1,024 AQ in 2028. Will they have to be the size of a football field? A microwave oven?