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Oracle to invest $8 billion in Japan through 2034

CIO

APRIL 18, 2024

Oracle is planning to invest $8 billion in Japan over the next 10 years in order to expand its cloud infrastructure footprint, which in turn will help the company meet the growing demand for AI-based workloads, the company announced on Wednesday. Prior to that in May, Oracle became the first hyperscaler to open a cloud region in Serbia.

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

CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

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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TransUnion transforms its business model with IT

CIO

APRIL 26, 2024

billion acquisition of data and analytics company Neustar in 2021, TransUnion has expanded into other services such as marketing, fraud detection and prevention, and robust analytical services. The multilayered data platform will enable TransUnion’s customers to perform deep analytics and build complex AI models.

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Achieve scalable cyber resiliency in the cloud during an age of exponential data growth

CIO

MARCH 5, 2024

The rest is stored in the cloud (29%), on the edge (19%) and a variety of other locations (4%). But even though the largest share of data is still in the data center, the momentum is clearly with the cloud and the edge. To learn more read IDC’s white paper, Improving Data Resilience with a Cloud-first Approach Cloud Computing

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Detect and Respond to Threats Across Your Applications, Networks, and Infrastructure

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As dynamic, cloud-native environments face increasingly sophisticated security threats, the boundaries between security, development, and operations teams are beginning to fade.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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

OCTOBER 20, 2023

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.

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IBM doubles down on hybrid cloud with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition

CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

In a move that significantly bolsters its position in the cloud services market, IBM has announced it is acquiring HashiCorp , a multicloud infrastructure automation company, for $6.4 HashiCorp has a proven track record of enabling clients to manage the complexity of today’s infrastructure and application sprawl.

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Seekr finds the AI computing power it needs in Intel’s cloud

CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

So, Seekr signed on with a regional colocation provider to host several GPU- and CPU-enabled systems. But with a growing number of customers and the increasing size of AI models, Clark and company recognized the need to shift to a cloud provider that could scale to its needs. “We

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Oracle adds AI capabilities to its Fusion Cloud CX

CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

Oracle is adding more AI capabilities to its Fusion Cloud CX that provides software for sales, marketing, and service teams across an enterprise, the company announced on Thursday. Additionally, it can improve customer response times and free up service agents to deal with complex customer issues or scenarios, the company said.

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Re-imagining Business Workflows with AI-Powered Automation

CIO

MARCH 4, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is delivering rapid change for Australian business by raising customers’ expectations, generating new competitive challenges, and creating opportunities for new products and services. The integration of AI into Tungsten Automation’s service offering is organised around three key pillars.

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Decoding Salesforce’s plausible $11 billion bid to acquire Informatica

CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

Salesforce’s reported bid to acquire enterprise data management vendor Informatica could mean consolidation for the integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) market and a new revenue stream for Salesforce, according to analysts. Informatica offers similar services via its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform.

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Ford’s high-tech business transformation, fueled by cloud

CIO

JANUARY 26, 2024

But it is the cloud — and Ford’s cloud-first strategy — that is propelling Ford’s transformation where the rubber meets the road. Google Cloud’s strength in data analysis and AI tools is a perfect fit for this new world of software-defined vehicles,” McCarthy says. “It

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Why cloud evolution needs a cohesive approach to succeed

CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Many organisations in India are migrating to the cloud, and there is no shortage of cloud providers. But if you want cloud to revolutionise your business, it won’t help to get stuck with a basic cloud configuration that works by default but doesn’t keep pace with your evolving goals.

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Technology’s role in social sustainability

CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

Diversity and inclusion: Diversity and inclusion initiatives can be supported by data analytics, online games, and team-building tools, enabling organizations to monitor progress and foster inclusive workplace cultures. Community engagement and wellbeing: True social sustainability includes the community in which a business operates.

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Discovery : A key requirement for enabling AIOps

CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

The CEO and board of directors expect the CIO to provide higher service reliability, faster time-to-resolution for issues, fewer incidents that affect business operations, and an increasingly efficient IT department that can do more with less. This enables it to pinpoint root causes of issues with startling speed and accuracy.

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Industry clouds give CIOs on-ramp to gen AI

CIO

MARCH 7, 2024

As head of technology for the US division of RBC Wealth Management, Beltzer says one feature in particular, Prompt Builder, will enable more than 2,100 advisors in RBC US’s private client group to “request and retrieve the most compelling data on topics of interest to clients.”

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ADP’s cloud transformation pays dividends

CIO

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

For most organizations, a shift to the cloud brings scalability, access to innovative tools, and the possibility of cost savings. For payroll services company ADP, it has paved the way to becoming a SaaS provider capable of taking on big names in enterprise software. An early partner of Amazon, the Roseburg, N.J.-based

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Oracle plans to expand its cloud region across the Middle East

CIO

JANUARY 30, 2024

The company that just turned 35 years old in the UAE will continue to invest in local infrastructure to bring cloud capabilities that will help the UAE Government entities and private sector. Cloud is the platform for innovation and provides a rich source of services for digital reinvention.

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Huawei Cloud named leader in emerging Asia-Pacific hybrid cloud market

CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Frost & Sullivan, a global research and consulting firm, recently released the Emerging Asia-Pacific Hybrid Cloud Market Report 2022 report. In this report, Huawei Cloud was named a “Leader” and positioned ahead of all other providers in terms of market performance, technical innovation, and customer services.

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Oracle’s Fusion Cloud CX, ERP, and SCM get generative AI features

CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Nearly all of Oracle’s Fusion Cloud suites — including Cloud Customer Experience (CX), Human Capital Management (HCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) — are being updated with the company’s Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)generative AI service.

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Simplify IT operations with observability and AIOps

CIO

MARCH 11, 2024

At the same time, they must deliver consistent IT service performance and availability to end users, while enabling innovative digital transformation for the business. Not all platforms, however, provide the key capabilities required to enable AIOps and observability functionality.

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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. The cloud also helps IHG “drive commercial value for our enterprise,” Turner says, noting that IT pros can innovate in the cloud in months what used to take years. This is driving a hybrid approach to cloud.”

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A new era for VMware Cloud Service Provider Partners begins

CIO

APRIL 8, 2024

Broadcom’s strategy is to drive adoption of our full stack VMware Cloud Foundation as the best subscription-based private cloud platform for our customers’ innovation. We will rely heavily on partners to help customers transform their business with our private cloud infrastructure.

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9 tips for achieving IT service delivery excellence

CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Service delivery excellence is an attribute that far too many IT leaders fail to prioritize. That’s unfortunate given how much of smooth business operations depends on the efficient delivery of IT services today. But is your organization doing all it can to ensure service delivery excellence?

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Mainframe data: hybrid cloud object store vs. tape

CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Meanwhile, enterprises are rapidly moving away from tape and other on-premises storage in favor of cloud object stores. Any organization that currently stores its mainframe data on tape or VTL should prioritize migrating that data to a hybrid cloud object store.

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Global managed services to grow in 2024 as enterprise IT spending rises

CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

The global market for managed services will rise in 2024 due to organizations’ IT spending surge and larger investments in managed services deals involving AI and cloud computing, according to market intelligence firm IDC. This trend, IDC attributed to the growing investments by organizations in areas such as AI and cloud.

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

CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

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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A changing market landscape requires constant evolution: Our mission for VMware customers

CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

As we moved from transaction to integration, we began to translate customer thoughts into a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for VMware Cloud Foundation, or VCF. One of the hot topics across customer and partner communities has been the changes to how we engage with cloud service providers.

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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

CIO

MARCH 5, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3 billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. billion to launch new cloud areas.

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Accelerating innovation with cloud-native apps on Microsoft Cloud

CIO

APRIL 11, 2023

The financial services sector is undergoing rapid change as fintechs develop convenient, consumer-focused services that were once the province of traditional banks. What are the greatest challenges that financial services firms face with their digital transformation initiatives?

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CIOs need a universal storage layer to manage multicloud complexities…here’s why.

CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

However siloed operations with multiple management interfaces and unique services across different clouds can drive up costs, reduce agility, and increase risk. Consequently, multicloud diversity and complexity can stifle innovation – the very thing technology is meant to enable.

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6 most underhyped technologies in IT — plus one that’s not dead yet

CIO

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“Anything that falls into the category of IT management tools is often cast aside, but these are the workhorses of IT,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas. They all just work, and that’s what people want from IT,” he adds.

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Orro: Delivering a sustainable future enabled by the cloud

CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In Australia, Orro is synonymous with ironclad software-defined infrastructure and sovereign cloud services that enable new ways of working, from fully managed cloud-native applications that accelerate the pace of business, to advanced collaboration tools that deliver on the promise of remote work.

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Principal Financial unifies IT to lay foundation for growth

CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

That’s where EVP and CIO Kathy Kay found herself in coming to Principal Financial Group from PG&E in May 2020 with a desire to lead an aggressive plan to adopt digital technologies, ranging from the cloud to AI.

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“Cloud adoption momentum in the GCC will gain further impetus in 2024”

CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2023

GenAI created tremendous interest, and is giving a boost to enterprise AI strategies, and promises to enable many business outcomes. Use cases in areas such as customer service, financial reporting, content marketing, code development and others are being taken up by early adopters. Everyone is talking about GenAI.

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Solving the top 3 IT challenges of anywhere work

CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

Here’s how the right Managed Services provider can help ensure successful IT transformation and allow your workforce to perform at their best. To meet this challenge, your Managed Services provider should deliver: Small, business-ready printers to extend your print network into your remote workers’ homes.

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

CIO

JANUARY 8, 2024

Even as its cloud journey reaches cruising altitude, Cathay Pacific Group IT is not slowing down. Instead, the publicly held operator of Cathay Pacific Airlines and HK Express is shifting from migration to optimization mode in an effort to wrest additional benefits from its all-in cloud transformation.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.

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Salesforce IT injects generative AI to ease its massive datacenter migration

CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

But the most compelling aspect of the migration is that the process will be aided by Salesforce’s Data Cloud and its own generative AI platform. Salesforce’s novel approach to using gen AI in its infrastructure operations will enable Salesforce IT to “bring human intent into machines managing machines,” Lutz says. “We

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Oracle Cloud SCM gets new capabilities to help manage logistics

CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Oracle is adding new capabilities to its Supply Chain and Manufacturing (SCM) Fusion Cloud to help enterprises manage their logistics. This enables application users to bid on spot market shipments, capture shipment actuals, and launch maps, Oracle said. billion annually in 2026, up from $5.3 billion in 2021.

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5 pillars of a cloud-conscious culture

CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Most CIOs recognize the advantages of cloud, the global reach it provides, and the ease with which services can be scaled up and back down again. It enables us to free our people so they can innovate and create lasting competitive advantage.” But recognizing cloud advantages doesn’t always mean a smooth transition from on-prem.

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Low-code: An Accelerator for Digital Transformation

CIO

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Taking the programmer out of software development, low-code provides tools that enable people with minimal training and coding skills to create and adapt applications themselves using prebuilt templates and program modules. interactive dashboards enabling details such as vehicle type, critical dates, and related documents to be viewed easily.

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The multi-cloud era – a faster path forward for enterprises and Managed Services Providers

CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The era of the multi-cloud landscape is here. CIOs are taking deliberate action by proactively matching workloads and applications with the ideal cloud, and companies are also seeing a proliferation of multi-cloud architectures created by mergers and acquisitions, data sovereignty needs, support for remote work, and shadow IT.

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Oracle to invest $8 billion in Japan through 2034

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TransUnion transforms its business model with IT

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

Multicloud by design approach simplifies the cloud experience

IBM doubles down on hybrid cloud with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition

Seekr finds the AI computing power it needs in Intel’s cloud

Oracle adds AI capabilities to its Fusion Cloud CX

Re-imagining Business Workflows with AI-Powered Automation

Decoding Salesforce’s plausible $11 billion bid to acquire Informatica

Ford’s high-tech business transformation, fueled by cloud

Why cloud evolution needs a cohesive approach to succeed

Technology’s role in social sustainability

Discovery : A key requirement for enabling AIOps

Industry clouds give CIOs on-ramp to gen AI

ADP’s cloud transformation pays dividends

Oracle plans to expand its cloud region across the Middle East

Huawei Cloud named leader in emerging Asia-Pacific hybrid cloud market

Oracle’s Fusion Cloud CX, ERP, and SCM get generative AI features

Simplify IT operations with observability and AIOps

IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

A new era for VMware Cloud Service Provider Partners begins

9 tips for achieving IT service delivery excellence

Mainframe data: hybrid cloud object store vs. tape

Global managed services to grow in 2024 as enterprise IT spending rises

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

A changing market landscape requires constant evolution: Our mission for VMware customers

AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

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6 most underhyped technologies in IT — plus one that’s not dead yet

Orro: Delivering a sustainable future enabled by the cloud

Principal Financial unifies IT to lay foundation for growth

“Cloud adoption momentum in the GCC will gain further impetus in 2024”

Solving the top 3 IT challenges of anywhere work

Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

Salesforce IT injects generative AI to ease its massive datacenter migration

Oracle Cloud SCM gets new capabilities to help manage logistics

5 pillars of a cloud-conscious culture

Low-code: An Accelerator for Digital Transformation

The multi-cloud era – a faster path forward for enterprises and Managed Services Providers

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