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Microsoft, Oracle deliver direct access to Oracle database services on Azure

CIO

Looking ahead to a future in which customers will move their entire data center workloads to the cloud, Microsoft and Oracle on Thursday expanded their partnership. Ellison says the offering, dubbed Oracle Database@Azure, will help many of its customers fully migrate from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.

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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI

CIO

Private cloud providers may be among the key beneficiaries of today’s generative AI gold rush as, once seemingly passé in favor of public cloud, CIOs are giving private clouds — either on-premises or hosted by a partner — a second look. The excitement and related fears surrounding AI only reinforces the need for private clouds.

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Azure Container Apps – Simplifying Container Deployment Without the Kubernetes Complexity

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In August 2021, I was accepted to test and provide feedback on what was referred to as ‘Azure Worker Apps’, another Azure service Microsoft was developing to run containers. Fast forward, that service is now known as Azure Container Apps. This is where Azure Web Apps for Containers comes into play.

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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. ” A DPU is a dedicated piece of hardware designed to handle certain data processing tasks, including security and network routing for data traffic. .”

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO

The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. He adds, “This is behind the drive to generative AI by the cloud providers.

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Multicloud by design approach simplifies the cloud experience

CIO

After all, an effective multicloud framework offers greater platform and service flexibility by leveraging the strengths of multiple cloud environments to drive business agility and innovation. Each cloud is a silo of specific, often proprietary services and tools. Each cloud is a silo of specific, often proprietary services and tools.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO

Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud. Cloud costs continue to be a top concern for CIOs,” says Dave McCarthy, analyst at IDC.

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