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IBM and AWS forge global alliance, streamlining access to AI and hybrid cloud solutions

CIO Business Intelligence

“By expanding the availability of our software portfolio in AWS Marketplace, organizations around the world will have greater access to a streamlined way to procure many IBM AI and hybrid cloud offerings to help propel their business forward,” Nick Otto, Head of Global Strategic Partnerships at IBM, said in the statement.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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

TM Forum

The rise in CSPs moving services to the cloud has exacerbated this trend as the spending they make with cloud service providers is on a usage basis in an as-a-service model. The same is true of some of the cloud-native software that CSPs now regard as essential for moving to a techco model. Spectrum costs.

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3 benefits of engaging hyperscalers when evaluating SAP RISE

CIO Business Intelligence

To do so, they are obfuscating reality, limiting transparency, and changing their historic business practices to make RISE appear financially superior to the traditional perpetual license models. Because of the way SAP is positioning RISE in the market, organizations must also re-evaluate their cloud strategy.

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Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.

All Things Distributed

Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.

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UK regulator puts Amazon and Microsoft on notice with details of cloud investigation

GeekWire

The Competition and Markets Authority’s cloud investigation is shaping up as Microsoft’s latest tangle with UK regulators. Ofcom calls these egress fees; The discounts offered by some cloud providers which are conditional on customers committing to a certain level of spend with them.

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AI in the cloud pays dividends for Liberty Mutual

CIO Business Intelligence

Liberty Mutual is one of the most experienced and advanced cloud adopters in the nation. And that is in no small part thanks to the vision of James McGlennon, who in his role as CIO of Liberty Mutual for past 17 years has led the charge to the cloud, analytics, and AI with a budget north of $2 billion.

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