CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

West Monroe’s Tanowitz agrees, saying, “There’s cloud spend where immature governance approaches have resulted in excess consumption that can be reduced when a holistic cloud architecture approach is taken.” Audit all contracts IT organizations almost always pay for more than the business actually needs for hardware, software, and networking.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

Each service pack includes the required switching hardware, licenses, management software (HPE Aruba Networking Central), and support components, along with Customer Experience Management (CEM), all bundled in a 3- or- 5-year monthly subscription.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

Many companies that once used to rely on big-name chipmakers like AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm have spent much of the last decade building out their own internal chip design teams to lessen their reliance on third-party companies and to better integrate their hardware and software.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

The data is too big, moves too fast, or does not fit the structures of your database architectures. However, massively parallel processing (MPP) database architectures are one example of purpose-built technologies that have been developed to support both OLTP and OLAP data structures at enormous scales up into the petabytes (PB).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2023

Analog computing The most common paradigm for computation has been digital hardware built of transistors that have two states: on and off. Similar attacks on the hardware found in desktops or laptops is starting to hit closer to home for IT departments. Only you know when that moment might be for your tech stack.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And that’s before we get into Microsoft’s game streaming service, xCloud, which could mean you won’t need any Xbox hardware at all to play many of the latest games. It’s not unusual for console manufacturers to offer a couple of different hardware options at launch, but normally, the differences are minor. teraflops of GPU power.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. The DPDK is BSD licensed and source code is available from Intel. Verplanke next reviews some of the I/O optimizations and architecture of the Xeon E5 2600 series platform. Next, he discusses the evolution of network devices so far.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

The new Macs will use arm64, the same CPU architecture that recent iOS devices use (Intel-based Macs use an architecture called x86-64). But it also means that apps that were developed for Intel’s architecture originally won’t run natively on Apple’s upcoming hardware.

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Intel Apple Windows Programming 101

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. “People better understand the charges, and [they] better negotiate costs.

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Linux Academy

MAY 6, 2019

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies – Exam AZ-300 Prep course will get you up to date on Azure architecture and prepare you for the AZ-300 exam. Plus, some Qt license clarity, a handy new Rust feature, and your feedback. Plus, venturing outside and how we install unusual applications.

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Linux Academy

MAY 6, 2019

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies – Exam AZ-300 Prep course will get you up to date on Azure architecture and prepare you for the AZ-300 exam. Plus, some Qt license clarity, a handy new Rust feature, and your feedback. Plus, venturing outside and how we install unusual applications.

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Linux Course Microsoft Study 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies – Exam AZ-300 Prep course will get you up to date on Azure architecture and prepare you for the AZ-300 exam. Plus, some Qt license clarity, a handy new Rust feature, and your feedback. Plus, venturing outside and how we install unusual applications.

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Linux Course Microsoft Study 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). I thought it was useful, so now I’m sharing it with you.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Cloud-first applications support a manageable OpEx cost model, metered like a utility, as opposed to requiring significant upfront capital investments in infrastructure and software licenses. Cloud Architecture, Enterprise Applications This post is brought to you by AWS and CIO Marketing Services.

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Applications Enterprise Enterprise Strategy 138

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Servers/Hardware. The series provides an introduction and overview of licensing (part 1), a review of architecture and hardware recommendations (part 2), an overview of data availability (part 3), and a discussion of fault domains (part 4). Nothing this time (sorry!). Ben Evans has a four-part series (so far) on vSAN.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). I thought it was useful, so now I’m sharing it with you.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cumulus Networks recently shifted their pricing and licensing model toward perpetual licenses; this article has more information and a comparison of the old vs. new models. Servers/Hardware. Roie Ben Haim has an article on how to improve the NSX GUI user experience. VCE—er, or is it EMC Converged Platforms Division?—recently

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Without access to the expertise and insights you need to manage fast-evolving hardware and software infrastructure as efficiently as possible, it can be an uphill battle to keep the lights on – even before you embark on new initiatives. And hardware cannot simply be replaced with software-driven infrastructure or hardware as a service.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Colin Lynch gives a “first look” at the Cisco UCS Generation 3 hardware , which may be of interest if you’re a UCS customer or looking at purchasing UCS. Only a year late, I found this article about Cisco IOS XRv (as in “virtual”). Is OpenStack turning into a niche product?

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Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Doubly challenging when you consider the different topologies of virtual servers, licensing servers, provisioning servers and more, all scaling at different rates to maintain service levels. In fact, using this new architecture, one could even burst (or fail-over) from a private cloud to a public instance. February 15, 2013 at 6:04 AM.

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Cloud Data Center Mobile Virtualization 189

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2023

Meta released Llama 2 in July and it stands out among other open source generative AI projects because of its size and capability, and also because of its license; companies can use it for free, even commercially. The only restriction is that companies with over 700 million active daily users will need to obtain a special license from Meta.

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Open Source Training Licensing Enterprise 98

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Oracle is collocating its Oracle database hardware (including Oracle Exadata) and software in Microsoft Azure data centers, giving customers direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) via Azure.

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Oracle Microsoft Data Center Licensing 111

Dataconomy

APRIL 24, 2024

Through a permissive licensing structure, SMEs can leverage the power of Llama 3 for their specific projects without encountering burdensome restrictions. Ollama employs a transformer architecture, a type of deep learning model that’s pivotal in large language models.

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Open Source Training Windows Data 45

The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

I feel like maybe the frame of our conversation is a little different — Argo makes self-driving hardware and software for cars. You make hardware and software that allows cars to drive themselves. Do you have any hardware demands? You see all the big tech companies are doing better than ever. You don’t make cars.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2023

Christened SalesHub+, the application was custom built with state-of-the-art software, hardware, and connectivity enablement to facilitate order, delivery, and inventory management, as well as timecard, tasks, in-store activities, and passive tracking, all in one place.

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TM Forum

DECEMBER 10, 2021

For the company’s IT teams this required a different way of thinking about architecture, culture and spending. As such, M1 leveraged the TM Forum Open Digital Architecture so that it could make its vendor partners accountable and simplify the systems integration process. Cost considerations were not just based on hardware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2023

Ranjit Satyanath, CTO, Hippo Stores istock The one-stop-shop for construction materials, including steel, cement, bricks, hardware, paint, tiles, electricals, and sanitaryware, caters to both professional construction companies and individual consumers. Hippo Stores opened its first outlet in New Delhi in 2021. Digital Transformation

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Retail Construction Agile Applications 98

Dataconomy

MAY 19, 2023

This eliminates the need for organizations to manage and maintain their own physical desktop hardware and infrastructure. DaaS aims to decouple the desktop infrastructure from physical hardware by hosting and managing virtual desktops in the cloud. What is the purpose of DaaS?

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Cloud Disaster Recovery Virtualization Hardware 60

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

As the Boston-based insurance company’s journey to the cloud has unfolded, it has also maintained a select set of datacenters from which to run legacy applications more economically than they would on the cloud, as well as software from vendors that make licensing on the cloud less attractive. It’s a big number,” he says.

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Cloud Insurance Applications Data 145

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Budget : Beyond the licensing, hardware, delivery, installation, and training costs associated with the platform of choice, the team should also consider wider organizational implications, such as change management. The bottom and most fundamental layer is the hardware layer or infrastructure.

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Examples Data Architecture Hardware 97

ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As a developer you can go to GitHub, see the license agreements, and then add the code to your next build. Vamosi: Virtual Machines are what just that; they’re software representations of hardware machines. They contain an operating system and they have confirmation for RAM and other hardware you may want to simulate.

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Open Source Software Software Applications 52

The Verge

OCTOBER 11, 2020

xCloud may get faster in the future when Microsoft upgrades the hardware it runs on. Microsoft is running the service on custom server blades using Xbox One S hardware, but the company plans to transition the platform to Xbox Series S/X grade hardware to improve performance down the line.

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Future of CIO

MARCH 31, 2013

The controversial point for IT cost breakdown is: With today's complex enterprise architectures it's becoming more and more difficult to identify the cost per unit. And furthermore , the metrics will be different for different industries.

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Budget Project Management Resources .Net 69

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2023

However, by consolidating onto a converged endpoint management (XEM) platform , these teams can finally serve the greater good — reducing risk and licensing costs, increasing productivity, and enhancing the end-user experience. The result is extra cost, complexity, and security risk.

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Licensing SAP Security Tools 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 27, 2022

As the Boston-based insurance company’s journey to the cloud has unfolded, it has also maintained a select set of datacenters from which to run legacy applications more economically than they would on the cloud, as well as software from vendors that make licensing on the cloud less attractive. It’s a big number,” he says.

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Cloud Insurance Applications Data 98

The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As expected, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is the first chip from Qualcomm to use the latest Armv9 architecture from Arm. Qualcomm is also offering more high-end camera features out of the box, including support for shooting in 8K video with HDR 10 Plus and shooting in 18-bit RAW (assuming your phone has the camera hardware to actually pull it off).

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