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Tech leaders discuss generative AI’s impact on enterprise, startups and society

GeekWire

“Conversational AI Roundtable,” an event hosted at the Bellevue Club by tech consulting firm Hitech Advisors , gathered industry leaders to discuss AI’s potential impacts on enterprises, startups and society. Startups must factor in hardware costs for running large AI models, according to Batalov.

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Microsoft cloud revenue up 22%, Windows business plunges 27% in first report since job cuts

GeekWire

billion, including a decline of 39% in revenue from versions of Windows licensed to computer manufacturers. This is the business unit run by Charlie Bell , the former Amazon Web Services exec. However, other parts of Microsoft’s business experienced significant declines. Windows revenue fell 27% to $4.8 per share, down 6%.

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

TM Forum

Communications service providers (CSPs) have become significantly leaner over the past decade. One contributing factor is that there has been a shift in the industry towards spending that was traditionally classified as capex being reclassified as opex. Spectrum costs.

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A new era for VMware Cloud Service Provider Partners begins

CIO Business Intelligence

Delivering services based on the same consistent VMware Cloud Foundation stack enables partners to focus less on infrastructure and more on differentiating their managed services and specialization. One Simplified Business Model – All services offered by VCSPs will now be based on a per core subscription license.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company’s new security organization is taking on “the next big challenge for our company and our industry.”

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Cloud, Mobile, Social and Cyber: 2015 Predictions That Will Rock The World (AGAIN!)

Cloud Musings

Cloud Service Broker ) - Traditional system integrators will finally realize that their current product and labor based business model is about to go the way of the dinosaurs. They will insist on the use of more agile commodity IT services in the development of their custom systems of record.

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FINRA CIO Steve Randich pushes the public cloud forward

CIO Business Intelligence

The CIO of a regulatory agency that reports to the US Securities and Exchange Commission — one of the biggest cloud consumers in the world — has made it his mission to help other CIOs — and Amazon Web Services itself — improve cloud computing. One of the things that we’ve been doing in the last few years is looking at our SLAs.

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