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Cloud, SaaS boost Oracle sales, but competition exacts costs

CIO Business Intelligence

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. For example, in comparison, Microsoft reported $22.1

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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations

CIO Business Intelligence

As organizations of all stripes continue their migration to the cloud, they are coming face to face with sometimes perplexing cost issues, forcing them to think hard about how best to optimize workloads, what to migrate, and who exactly is responsible for what. It’s an issue that’s coming to the fore with the steady migration to the cloud.

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Certinia bakes AI into its latest professional services updates

CIO Business Intelligence

There, the company showed off a series of dashboards that enable users to perform tasks such as synchronize employee schedules in response to customer requests, track whether billable elements of a project have been sitting idle or not, and keep a running comparison of a project’s current revenue compared to earlier estimates.

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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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Meet Mistral 7B, Mistral’s first LLM that beats Llama 2

Dataconomy

This means that anyone can fine-tune and utilize the model without restrictions, whether for local or cloud-based applications, including enterprise scenarios. license By using software licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, for example, end users are guaranteed a license to any patents covered by the software.

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Fixed Layout vs. Reflowable eBooks: Which to Choose for Your Publication

Kitaboo

Today, we demystify the two formats through a detailed eBook layout comparison , helping publishers choose the right one for their specific needs. For instance, using cloud-based digital publishing software can automate several processes and help you bring out high-quality eBooks in either format quickly. Table of Contents: I.

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

GeekWire

” Helion and Microsoft have signed a power purchase agreement in which the software and cloud computing giant agrees to buy electricity from the fusion startup once the facility is generating power. The agreement between Helion and Microsoft began with conversations five years ago with the cloud company’s data center group.

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