CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

A new research study conducted by Foundry exposes what the most successful cloud cost management programs have in common, helping IT and financial leaders pinpoint FinOps approaches generating the highest savings. The FinOps Framework puts forward a process for addressing cloud waste management. The problem? The tools they use.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

Cloud doesn’t just open the door to enabling advanced technologies like AI, hyper-automation, and big data analytics – it unlocks a complex realm of costs and expense management problems that can threaten innovation and its financial sustainability. This is the first and most essential step for mastering today’s cloud economics.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

GeekWire File Photo) Amazon has committed more than $1 billion to license Microsoft 365 cloud productivity software for 1 million of its corporate and frontline workers in a surprise “megadeal” between the crosstown rivals, Insider reported Tuesday , citing an internal document and a person familiar with the matter.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

A new surge of enthusiasm surrounds a strategic framework poised to simplify the management of cloud expenses and help companies lower their IT costs — it’s called FinOps, a portmanteau of the words Financial and DevOps. Public cloud infrastructure seems to be a place where you can “check out any time you like, but you can never leave.”

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Computerworld Vertical IT

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Google Cloud has joined AWS and Europe-based Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) in protesting Microsoft’s anticompetitive cloud software licensing practices in the EU.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

SAP is doubling the time between major releases of S/4HANA Cloud private edition from one year to two — at the same time promising to release new feature packs every six months or so to keep up the pace of innovation. It is also extending maintenance to seven years, from five today.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

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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Venture Beast

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Microsoft says it will exclusively license OpenAI's powerful GPT-3 natural language processing model as part of a multiyear agreement between the companies. Read More.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

(LinkedIn Photo) After more than a week of controversy, Unity Technologies posted an apology letter to its community and promised to undo or rollback many of the changes it had planned to make to the licensing agreements for its game engine Unity. Unity, which has an office in Bellevue, Wash., 17 promise to reverse course.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2024

“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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Venture Beast

JULY 9, 2021

This week, TikTok parent company ByteDance began licensing parts of its AI technologies to third parties through a new division called BytePlus. Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

While most business leaders know their cloud costs are rising, far fewer are aware of the one small detail that can make a 5X difference in the price they’ll pay to lower those costs. It’s easy to underestimate the administrative work and data analytics required to curb cloud, mobile, and telecom spending. Can you guess what it is?

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Avalara beat analyst expectations for its third fiscal quarter and said it acquired the assets of Business Licenses. The Seattle tax automation company reported $127.9 The company said it paid $97 million in cash and stock to buy the operational assets of Business Licenses , a Monsey, N.Y.-based

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Venture Beast

MAY 17, 2021

France said its state and corporate data can be stored on Google and Microsoft's cloud services which have been licensed to French companies. Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2023

Having the right licenses for the applications the business needs are critical. Licensing can sometimes be complex to understand, however, which is why SMBs should make sure they’re sourcing their licenses from the right places. However, it’s important to understand which part of the solution adds most value to a company.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 12, 2022

African mobile operator MTC Namibia is reducing technical debt and enabling growth with a greenfield, cloud-native approach to transforming operational support systems (OSS). MTC Namibia is tackling technical debt and preparing for growth by moving operational and business support systems (OSS/BSS) to the cloud. Monica Nehemia.

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GeekWire

MAY 21, 2024

The company says the new “Team Copilot” expands its Copilot AI technology beyond its existing function as a one-on-one personal assistant, to play a larger role inside organizations. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and others are competing aggressively in AI to expand the footprints of their cloud platforms.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2024

When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. Customers that paid for older perpetual licenses can continue to use the older vSphere versions they purchased, he said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Fueled by strong sales of cloud-based ERP software that more than offset a decline in revenue from on-premises applications, SAP revenue jumped in the third quarter compared to the year-earlier period, according to company’s quarterly financial report, released Tuesday. SAP’s cloud and software revenue for the quarter rose 14% to €6.71

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

As we moved from transaction to integration, we began to translate customer thoughts into a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for VMware Cloud Foundation, or VCF. It demonstrated that all too often, as innovative companies expand, decisions are made incrementally, not holistically as part of a larger, comprehensive strategy.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Amazon is bringing macOS to its AWS cloud for the first time ever. New Mac mini instances will be available on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), allowing developers to create apps for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and more all on AWS. Amazon is using Apple’s Intel-powered Mac mini computers for its cloud version of macOS.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2020

The Commerce Department has released a new set of rules aimed at making the procedure for licensing Earth-imaging satellite systems more in tune with what’s technically possible and commercially available on the global market. An artist’s conception shows BlackSky’s Global satellites in orbit. BlackSky Illustration).

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GeekWire

JULY 25, 2023

The company said its overarching Microsoft Cloud offerings drove much of the growth, with quarterly revenue of $30.3 The Intelligent Cloud segment saw a revenue growth of 15%, amounting to $24 billion, largely due to an increase in Azure and other cloud services revenue. billion, marking a 21% increase year-over-year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud. Cloud costs continue to be a top concern for CIOs,” says Dave McCarthy, analyst at IDC.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2023

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs. I am in the business of hospitality.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Results: Adopted cloud-native and microservices-based solution that resulted in 50% shorter time to market. 40% decrease in licensing costs. High operating costs, due to licensing fees, and infrastructure and operations requirements affected HT’s competitiveness. 40% better productivity. 30% more systems availability.

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Kitaboo

MAY 30, 2023

With the rise of digital content consumption, it becomes crucial for publishing companies to protect their valuable intellectual property from unauthorized copying and distribution. In this article, we will explore the benefits of DRM for publishing companies and how it enhances the security of eBooks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Once enterprises commit to running business-critical applications in the cloud, they rarely move to another provider. The cost of migrating is simply too high, says Sid Nag, VP of cloud services and technology at Gartner. But doing this requires planning ahead early on, before moving an application to the cloud the first time.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - How To Get the Best User-Friendly Software Licensing Protection - Information Technology Blog. These software licensing protection gurus offer the most dynamic licensing models to date. No More Host-Based Licensing Frustrating Your End-User. Focus on Your Customers.

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Network World

MAY 20, 2024

First, tool vendors sold them with perpetual licenses, which meant a long-term investment. Second, tools could take time to implement, especially for larger companies that invest months of time customizing data collection mechanisms, dashboards, alerts, and more. But things have changed.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2021

Nuance has licensed this tech for many services and applications, including, most famously, Apple’s digital assistant Siri. For Microsoft, which makes roughly two-thirds of its revenue from enterprise software sales and cloud computing, improving its transcription services for scenarios like these makes complete sense.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 11, 2022

Cloud services and sales of SaaS applications boosted Oracle revenue for its last fiscal quarter, but the price of keeping up with the leading hyperscale cloud providers dragged down overall profit. Oracle did have results to brag about, in terms of growing its cloud user base. Oracle’s user base grows. billion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

It was only a few years ago when ‘digital transformation’ was on every CIO’s agenda, and businesses started to understand how cloud could deliver real value. They stopped asking whether they should move to the cloud and started asking what they needed to do to get there. Honestly, in 2016, cloud wasn’t really affordable.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

Around the globe, multi-cloud adopters are realizing incredible results as they migrate from older environments. . The company has integrated disparate IT environments, reduced management complexity, and streamlined business expansion as it builds a global multi-cloud strategy.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As reported by The Register, Microsoft updated its Universal License Terms for Online Services for its range of Azure Services and Dynamic 365 Services to prohibit cryptomining without the company's prior approval. It covers any "Microsoft-hosted service to which Customer subscribes under a Microsoft volume licensing agreement."

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the Field. Cloud Computing. (55). Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in. Cloud Computing. Cloud Musings. Wisdom of Clouds. Cloud Computing Journal.

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GeekWire

JULY 22, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic and related stay-at-home orders boosted the company’s productivity, cloud and gaming businesses, including subscription versions of Microsoft Office, and the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The company’s profits fell 15% to $11.2 Intelligent Cloud: Revenue rose 17% to $13.37

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