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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

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After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. According to the Foundry report, 78% of organizations say that, in response to cloud investments made by the organization, they have added new roles.

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Microsoft in talks over cloud licensing complaint in the EU

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Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). The European cloud firms had called this a restrictive cloud licensing policy.

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Aflac virtualizes the customer enrollment experience

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While Aflac’s other major division, its business-to-business insurance line, was relatively unaffected by the pandemic, its independent agents hung in the balance, just as the publicly traded company was undertaking a transformational journey to the cloud. Virtualizing policy enrollment. We’ve made them more bionic, right?”.

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Virtual and hybrid learning works. Here’s how to get it right.

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In part, this shift is driven by students, who increasingly demand virtual and hybrid learning experiences that better match the ways they like to consume content at home. Meanwhile, virtual education has become an essential element of resilience for educational institutions by ensuring that students don’t fall behind during closures.

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Powering Virtual Leadership interaction by leveraging Google Generative AI on GCP Cloud Run

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Let me introduce PaperCompany.io: It is a proof of concept designed to demonstrate the potential of AI-driven interactions with virtual leadership, and it harnesses the capabilities of Google’s Generative AI on GCP Cloud Run. In this blog post I will show you how to do this with GCP on Cloud Run using a small Flask application.

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Price shock: IBM to increase cloud costs by up to 26% from 2024

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IBM is all set to increase its cloud services costs by up to 26% from January 2024. IBM PaaS services — slated for a 3% price hike globally — include IBM’s Kubernetes Services, RedHat OpenShift, all security services, and all cloud database offerings including Message Hub, Cloudant, and SQL query services. Cloud Computing, IBM

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The Cost Paradox Of The Cloud

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Against all odds, some organizations are migrating back from the Cloud to their on-premises servers, as the Cloud turns out to be too expensive for them. This is unexpected because, theoretically, operating your landscape in the cloud ought to be cheaper. In the cloud, following a similar approach will result in high cost.

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