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Oracle makes its pitch for the enterprise cloud. Should CIOs listen?

CIO

In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan , Mexico , and the Middle East.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

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In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” The Fungible team will join Microsoft’s data center infrastructure engineering teams, Bablani said.

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Walgreens partners with TCS and Microsoft to builds an intelligent data platform for actionable insights

CIO

Walgreens processes hundreds of millions of prescription dispenses each year across nearly 9,000 stores, and each of those transactions creates hundreds of associated data points. Read the full customer story to learn more about Walgreens’ digital transformation journey on Microsoft Cloud.

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DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

CIO

Cloud cost management remains a critical CIO priority. With questions around ROI, increasing outlay, and corporate scrutiny on IT cost savings on the rise, CIOs must know not only what contributes to their organization’s overall cloud spend but also how to optimize it.

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The Practical Guide to Using a Semantic Layer for Data & Analytics

Download this guide for practical advice on how to use a semantic layer to unlock data for AI & BI at scale. Read this guide to learn: How to make better, faster, and smarter data-driven decisions at scale using a semantic layer. How to enable data teams to model and deliver a semantic layer on data in the cloud.

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Microsoft can’t keep up with demand for AI in the cloud — for now

CIO

When Microsoft posted its quarterly earnings last week, its CFO Amy Hood said that customers wanted more cloud compute for their AI workloads than the company could supply. billion (up 21%) came from its Intelligent Cloud segment, consisting of Azure and other public, private, and hybrid server products and cloud services.

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

CIO

After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper.

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