CIO

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as Azure OpenAI have been drawing attention in recent months, and there is widespread consensus that these technologies can significantly transform the retail industry. CarMax used the Azure OpenAI Service to analyze millions of reviews and present a summary.

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InfoWorld

MARCH 28, 2024

Kubernetes plays an important role at Microsoft. The container management system is a foundational piece of the company’s many clouds, from Microsoft 365 and Xbox, to Azure, to partners like OpenAI that use Microsoft’s Kubernetes to host their own services.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The $100 million entrepreneurial tranche was announced last May and was backed by Microsoft and other partners. When OpenAI first detailed the OpenAI Startup Fund, it said recipients of cash from the fund would receive access to Azure resources from Microsoft.

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2022

The UK-based accounting and tax consulting firm was one of few accountants in the UK that weathered the 2020 tax season without a hitch, thanks to its early bet on SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. Navigating the pandemic. It worked like magic.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2022

Google, Microsoft and Amazon collectively made up almost two in three dollars spent on cloud infrastructure around the world last quarter, Canalys noted. Azure was in second place, with 24% of the market after 40% annual growth, and Google Cloud took third, with 45% growth accounting for 8% of total market share. billion out of $62.3

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2024

And four years after that, Mohammed transformed his organization by leveraging Microsoft Office 365, which, he says, enabled better collaboration and productivity among his employees, partners, and customers around the world.

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CTOvision

JUNE 3, 2021

Microsoft and Elastic have recently announced Elastic on Azure, a preview service that offers managed Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana to search, analyze, and visualize data in real-time on Azure. Read about the […].

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2023

They want to be able to do everything on a mobile phone or a smart portal,” says Nilendu Pattanaik, Global Head of Business Applications Practice, Microsoft Business Unit, at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). “Most people do not want to go into a bank to do banking.

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CIO

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Partnering with PwC, Microsoft, and MIT has enabled Cushman & Wakefield “to consume their best-of-breed thinking while we’re building out our own engines,” Companieh says. About a year and a half ago, we moved to a full product operating model. It’s also important to start small, she advises.

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CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In summer 2022, P&G sealed a multiyear partnership with Microsoft to transform P&G’s digital manufacturing platform. To accelerate P&G’s transformation, Microsoft and P&G have created a Digital Enablement Office (DEO) staffed by experts from both organizations. Smart manufacturing at scale.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Cruise has raised $2 billion in a new equity round that has pushed its valuation up to $30 billion and delivered Microsoft as an investor and partner. While Microsoft’s capital is important, the partnership might provide equal and longer-term value for Cruise, at least in the two companies’ views.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Second, the company funnels its engineers to a version of ChatGPT running on a private Azure cloud. More recently, companies have been getting more secure, enterprise-friendly options, like Microsoft Copilot, which combines ease of use with additional controls and protections. It’s blocked.” We are LLM agnostic.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Danish company LMS365 , an online learning management system (LMS) built for use inside Microsoft products, has raised $20 million in its first institutional round of funding. LMS365: Course and content management Image Credits : LMS365 Managers can also track learner progress and present relevant data via Microsoft Power BI visuals.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Examples include Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Sometimes the term NaaS is expanded to include the outsourcing of day-to-day operations and management of a network environment to a third party, such as a networking vendor or partner. This is where it can get confusing.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2024

Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, Oracle, Microsoft, GitHub, and ServiceNow are but a few of the many vendors whose cloud applications make up the new tech backbone for most enterprises today, in conjunction with customized in-house apps and niche offerings across public clouds. It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor.

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Tenable

MAY 24, 2023

With the launch of Azure Linux container host for Azure Kubernetes Service, Microsoft enters the open-source Linux distribution container sphere with enhanced security Kubernetes experience. In this blog, we explain key features of Azure Linux and how Tenable can support the security needs of Microsoft customers.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kyndryl is now running a clean version of S/4HANA Cloud private edition on Microsoft Azure. For other aspects, such as setting up application environments in Azure, he had help from Kyndryl’s own consulting staff. We’re completely running in Azure or are software-as-a-service based.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A multi-partnered strategy for multicloud success IHG, which got its start on the cloud five years ago, is also taking a hybrid approach, continuing to migrate and develop new workloads on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform as it maintains data centers on the east and west coasts of the US.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

“Like many complex businesses, we are an evolving hybrid model that maintains compute and storage capabilities in the public cloud, on-prem, with our co-location partner, and industry cloud partners,” Shields adds. This refinement of thinking about the cloud comes as hefty AI costs loom on the horizon.

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CIO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Axel Johnson International is an industrial group within Axel Johnson, which also owns Swedish food retailer Axfood and Dustin, the online IT partner in the Nordics and Benelux, among others. An example of that is a data warehouse in Azure we brought in and offer as a service. But at the same time there’s also risk.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Partnering for success Not all CIOs are as experienced at cloud economics, and many are realizing it is best not to go it alone — at least in the preliminary stages of cloud deployment. The Big 3 vendors — Amazon, Microsoft, and Google — are still selling tons of cloud software, just not at the speed of light anymore.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2023

Updated to note that the Microsoft investment closed in January. This is separate to a big investment from Microsoft announced earlier this year , a person familiar with the development told TechCrunch, which closed in January. The money from VCs reported here, part of a tender offer, is separate to that.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2022

Feeding America worked with partners such as Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, Tableau, and Slalom Consulting to build the foundational technology capabilities to support the transformation, which has earned the organization a CIO 100 Award in IT Excellence. Byrdak and team have also implementing a new CRM system for the national office.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Bank came in 2022 when we announced Microsoft Azure as our primary cloud service provider. To date, our employees have obtained several thousand Microsoft Azure certifications. Banking on technology and people The largest technology investment for U.S.

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CIO

DECEMBER 1, 2022

To date the company has moved 5,000 applications to Microsoft Azure as it applies predictive analytics , AI, robotics, and process automation in many of its business operations. The importance of using AI for data ops is critical. What we are trying to do is operationalize all our analytics and algorithmic libraries.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

In partnership with AiFi , a startup that aims to enable retailers to deploy autonomous shopping tech cost-effectively, Microsoft today launched a preview of a cloud service called Smart Store Analytics. Besides being an Azure customer, AiFi’s market share could well have something to do with it.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Last week, Microsoft brought together partners, customers, and thought leaders at Microsoft Ignite , its annual conference, held this year in Seattle. This year’s event featured close to 600 sessions on AI alone, which is unheard of among technology partners.

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CIO

JULY 28, 2023

Being a partner with VMware gave us the opportunity to think out openly and widely on possible solutions,” Gutierrez says. In the end, Atea and VMware recommended a hybrid cloud solution that could extend the organization’s workloads from its on-premises data center into Azure, utilizing the Azure VMware Solution. Multi Cloud

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CIO

JULY 6, 2023

While Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, and IBM have already released their generative AI offerings, rival Oracle has so far been largely quiet about its own strategy. While AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and IBM have laid out how their AI services are going to work, most of these services are currently in preview.

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CIO

AUGUST 11, 2022

SAP, for example, has launched its RISE offering , including reimagined partnerships with AWS, Google, and Microsoft as well as its consulting partners such as Accenture and IBM to bring a vertically integrated solution to market. Establishing an SAP partner strategy. Reassessing existing managed service relationships.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“There’s a big wave of innovation in managing cloud costs,” Team8 co-founder and managing partner Liran Grinberg told TechCrunch as part of our latest cloud investor survey. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn [ … ].

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Atlanta, GA – September 28, 2023 – AltexSoft, a Technology Consulting firm, is pleased to announce that multiple team members have secured certifications from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure over the past six months. Over 200 clients worldwide have chosen AltexSoft as their technology consulting partner.

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CIO

JUNE 26, 2023

Apptio, which has over 1,500 enterprise customers, also integrates with technology from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Salesforce, Google Cloud, Oracle, Salesforce and SAP. IBM is acquiring the company from Vista Equity Partners, which purchased it in 2019 for $1.94

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Customers should construct their SAP system implementation partner evaluation in a manner that compels the consulting firms to demonstrate these capabilities as well as the associated risks and benefits. In addition, SAP customers should identify how their prospective consulting firm’s solution will align with SAP’s tools and accelerators.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

. “ We also work with a number of notable VFX and animation studios such as Spire Animation, and partner closely with 3D streaming and ‘metaverse’ companies such as PureWeb.” ” It’s tough for any cloud provider to compete with the incumbents in the space — i.e., Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why we are excited to launch Cloud NGFW for Azure to strengthen security for applications running on Microsoft Azure while streamlining network security operations. The added strength of Panorama integration makes Cloud NGFW for Azure even more powerful. No need to learn new tools or create new processes.

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