Cloud: Page 20


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    Red Sox chase business, baseball wins in cloud

    Boston’s MLB franchise turned to IBM and Wasabi to manage its complex data ecosystem and modernize operations, the team’s CTO Brian Shield said.

    By Matt Ashare • Aug. 14, 2023
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    Microsoft-Epic partnership yields EHR cloud solution

    Mount Sinai Health System is the first provider to implement Azure Large Instances, which scales database capacity to the level needed for health record workloads.

    By Matt Ashare • Aug. 10, 2023
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    Hybrid cloud

    IT decision makers turn to hybrid cloud in search of security, flexibility and scale within enterprise infrastructure.

    By CIO Dive staff
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    Kyndryl leans on consulting, deepens Microsoft alliance in post-IBM drive to profitability

    The IT services company remains committed to cloud but is banking on its expertise in mainframe modernization and hybrid ecosystems to fuel growth.

    By Matt Ashare • Aug. 9, 2023
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    AWS pledges $20M to K-12 cyber training, incident response

    The cloud services provider is participating in a broad White House plan to build additional protection to defend schools against ransomware and other threats.

    By David Jones • Aug. 8, 2023
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    Cloud market growth plateaus as hyperscalers anticipate AI boom

    Global spend increased by $10 billion for the third consecutive quarter, with AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud retaining nearly two-thirds of the market, Synergy Research Group found.

    By Matt Ashare • Aug. 7, 2023
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    AWS growth slows again, but customers are moving to add workloads

    The provider is starting to see more appetite for fresh workloads as the trend of optimization begins to ease.

    By Aug. 4, 2023
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    Oracle unveils secure cloud solution in bid for DoD contracts

    The new infrastructure services are designed to ease critical workload migrations and comply with defense information systems security requirements.

    By Matt Ashare • July 31, 2023
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    FINOS moves to rationalize financial industry cloud controls

    Citi, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are among the companies participating in the Fintech Open Source Foundation project, which will introduce a framework this year.

    By Matt Ashare • July 28, 2023
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    AWS builds out generative AI marketplace, adds 4 foundational models

    The hyperscaler, growing a nascent generative AI marketplace through Bedrock, now features models from Anthropic, Stability AI and Cohere.

    By Matt Ashare • July 27, 2023
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    Microsoft leans on Azure, AI as cloud business grows

    The tech company’s public cloud platform accounted for more than half of its annual cloud revenue in FY2023, CEO Satya Nadella said.

    By Matt Ashare • July 26, 2023
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    Google Cloud extends profitability run, executives hype AI-optimized infrastructure

    Alphabet’s cloud division delivered its second-consecutive quarter of positive income gains, even as customers continued to streamline their spend.

    By Matt Ashare • July 26, 2023
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    Data, instinct drive executive decision-making

    How CIOs make decisions may matter as much as the outcome when weighing the advantages and risks of new technologies.

    By Matt Ashare • July 25, 2023
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    Capital One bets on tech engine for card and retail banking growth

    “Our modern technology capabilities are generating an expanding set of opportunities across our business,” CEO Richard Fairbank said Thursday.

    By Matt Ashare • July 21, 2023
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    IBM sees Red Hat growth as model for its AI business

    The tech company is banking on enterprise adoption of its newly introduced watsonx platform to advance its hybrid cloud strategy.

    By Matt Ashare • July 20, 2023
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    Hyperscalers bet on costly new data centers to capture growing market

    As cloud becomes ubiquitous, AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud are competing to expand their regional reach and localize services.

    By Matt Ashare • July 14, 2023
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    On-prem data centers retain a shrinking foothold as cloud’s shadow looms

    While capacity steadily migrates to massive CSPs, more than one-third of worldwide data and compute remains on-prem.

    By Matt Ashare • July 14, 2023
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    Unleashing the power of the cloud, AI and data analytics: The secret sauce for strategic success

    Explore three strategies to activate the combined power of the cloud, AI and data analytics for transformative success.

    By Dwayne Allen, Senior Vice President, Solution Innovation and Chief Technology Officer, Unisys • July 10, 2023
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    Unilever elevates North America CIO to global VP role

    The global consumer goods giant reconfigured its tech leadership, moving Alessandro Ventura from its U.S.-based operation to its London headquarters.

    By Matt Ashare • July 5, 2023
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    Snowflake, Nvidia target data behind generative AI in new partnership

    The deal will let businesses use proprietary data to build generative AI-powered chatbots, search and summarization services within the Nvidia NeMo platform.

    By June 27, 2023
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    IBM to acquire Apptio in $4.6B deal

    The purchase highlights a persistent customer interest in optimizing cloud costs, and opens upselling opportunities for IBM's hybrid cloud playbook.

    By June 26, 2023
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    Cloud tensions flare as Google accuses Microsoft of vendor lock-in

    The three largest hyperscalers answered a Federal Trade Commission call for public comment, heightening industry scrutiny of Microsoft’s competitive practices.

    By Matt Ashare • June 26, 2023
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    AWS pledges $100M to launch generative AI innovation center

    The new hub will connect customers with in-house experts in the emerging technology, the company said.

    By June 22, 2023
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    Google takes a swing at Microsoft, alleges anticompetitive cloud practices: report

    The Federal Trade Commission stands at the center of an ongoing hyperscaler battle over cloud market dominance, as a skirmish erupts between the second and third largest providers.

    By Matt Ashare • June 21, 2023
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    Oracle deploys EU sovereign cloud solution in bid to satisfy regulators

    New OCI data centers in Germany and Spain aim to satisfy stringent European data privacy and security regulations as part of the company’s broader distributed cloud strategy.

    By Matt Ashare • June 21, 2023
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    SaaS sprawl muddies software contracts, risks compliance gaps

    Cloud-based deployments multiply the challenges of managing enterprise IT assets, as penalties for noncompliance rise.

    By Matt Ashare • June 20, 2023