Microsoft will invest $80B in AI data centers in fiscal 2025
CIO
JANUARY 6, 2025
Microsoft is on track to invest around $80 billion this fiscal year to build out AI-enabled data centers, company president Brad Smith said Friday.
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Overcoming the infrastructure challenges to accelerate AI success
CIO
JANUARY 30, 2025
There is no doubt that artificial intelligence (AI) will radically transform how the world works. AI has the ability to ingest and decipher the complexities of data at unprecedented speeds that humans just cannot match. Along with Dell Technologies data resiliency offerings, the system can allay CIOs most pressing concerns.
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How AerCap’s CIO has been a catalyst for a robust M&A strategy
CIO
JANUARY 1, 2025
At the time, AerCap management had concerns about the shared infrastructure of public cloud, so the business was run out from dual data centers. The running cost for a data center plus the purchase price of the tin should roughly be the same as the run cost of your cloud, he says.
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Self-Guided Meditations With AI On Azure
Xebia
JANUARY 30, 2024
DALL-E, Azure Machine Learning and Azure AI Speech (formerly Cognitive Services) to create fresh daily content. Most of these steps use Artificial Intelligence and usually take some time to process. I’m building this in an Azure Durable Function to deal with these long-running processes.
What is an IT consultant? Roles, types, salaries, and how to become one
CIO
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Enterprise infrastructures have expanded far beyond the traditional ones focused on company-owned and -operated data centers. This increased complexity means more companies will be relying on IT consultants to help navigate the changes and develop short-term and long-term strategies.
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What to expect from AI in the enterprise in 2025
CIO
DECEMBER 9, 2024
As AI offerings from cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud develop in 2025, we can expect to see more competitive pricing that could help keep a check on costs for enterprises. However, this will depend on the speed at which new AI-ready data centers are built relative to demand.
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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need
CIO
JULY 12, 2022
Enterprises today require the robust networks and infrastructure required to effectively manage and protect an ever-increasing volume of data. An industry-first, it allows for greater personalization in a virtual environment that performs and functions like an on-premise solution.
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AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Comparing Cloud Platforms
Kaseya
MAY 13, 2021
In addition, you can also take advantage of the reliability of multiple cloud data centers as well as responsive and customizable load balancing that evolves with your changing demands. In this blog, we’ll compare the three leading public cloud providers, namely Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
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CarMax drives business value with GPT-3.5
CIO
MAY 5, 2023
Everything CarMax does that is new is done on the cloud but the company still has a small data center that will eventually be phased out. As a Microsoft Azure shop, CarMax relies on Azure Data Lake, an essential component of the company’s AI output, the CIO notes. It’s not the wild west,” he says. “We
5 Reasons to Migrate Oracle Applications to Azure
Datavail
AUGUST 3, 2021
As the war for cloud customers continues between ‘as a service’ vendors both large and small, Microsoft Azure continues to maintain its stronghold. From Oracle EBS to JD Edwards to PeopleSoft, Azure can support the critical applications that drive your business in a hybrid or fully cloud hosted environment. 1) High Availability.
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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies
CIO
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
As businesses look to leverage artificial intelligence a lot more, they are and will relook at the workloads and place them on the right infrastructure, be it in the public cloud or the edge or bringing them back to their own private cloud or servers in-house,” Srinivasan says.
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Why Your Healthcare Organization Should Consider HPE GreenLake for EHR
CIO
DECEMBER 20, 2022
The benefits of hybrid multicloud in healthcare When it comes to cloud adoption, the healthcare industry has been slow to relinquish the traditional on-premises data center due to strict regulatory and security requirements and concerns around interoperability and data integration.
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Why enterprise CIOs need to plan for Microsoft gen AI
CIO
AUGUST 14, 2024
But those close integrations also have implications for data management since new functionality often means increased cloud bills, not to mention the sheer popularity of gen AI running on Azure, leading to concerns about availability of both services and staff who know how to get the most from them.
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Cloud Security — Maturing Past the Awkward Teenage Years
Palo Alto Networks
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Q highlights one of the most prevalent fallacies: Some misconceptions are that I can just ‘lift and shift’ everything from my data center up into the cloud and everything will be great. AWS, GCP, Azure, they will not patch your systems for you, and they will not design your user access. Therefore, it'll be easier.
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Unlocking AI potential: The essential role of hybrid, multi-cloud strategies
CIO
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Azures generative AI solutions integrate seamlessly with Microsofts ecosystem, offering a cohesive experience for organizations heavily invested in their products. DORA requires financial firms to have strategies in place to manage risk related to their third-party service providers, such as AWS and Microsoft Azure.
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Chipotle’s recipe for digital transformation: Cloud plus AI
CIO
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Chipotle’s digital commerce platform is Microsoft Azure, and its internal business processes such as ERP have been migrating from on-premises Oracle to Oracle Cloud. Currently, Chipotle is exploiting a variety of cloud services that are part of the Microsoft Azure platform, such as its AI and ML modeling services.
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JLL reinvents itself for the AI era
CIO
JULY 28, 2023
JLL, for instance, provides facilities management services for many cloud and data center operators. To counteract that, JLL has targeted commercial segments that are experiencing high growth, such as cloud and data center operators, which require lots of square footage. Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation
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Oracle makes its pitch for the enterprise cloud. Should CIOs listen?
CIO
APRIL 11, 2024
But with Amazon Web Services (31%), Microsoft Azure (24%), and Google Cloud Platform (11%) accounting for two thirds of the worldwide market, according to Synergy Research Group, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) remains distantly behind the behemoths, leaving many to question whether Oracle’s cloud gains are enough to make it a contender.
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Dairyland powers up for a generative AI edge
CIO
APRIL 9, 2024
Now, thanks to the cooperative’s tight partnership with Microsoft systems integrator Stoneridge Software, as well as Melby’s extensive technology experience, Dairyland — which was formed during the New Deal in the 1930s — has been able to experiment with and put into production some of the earliest Microsoft Azure-based LLMs, Melby says. “We
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CIOs weigh the new economics and risks of cloud lock-in
CIO
DECEMBER 14, 2023
It is no longer a decision between AWS and Azure. Don’t companies have the same issue for data centers on-premise? Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, IT Strategy, Risk Management “Once you adopt their cloud platforms, it can be difficult and expensive to migrate out.
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NASA accelerates science with gen AI-powered search
CIO
JANUARY 15, 2024
It has since integrated Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service with its own neural search capabilities to power the platform. Aerospace and Defense Industry, Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Data Center Management, Data Management, Data Mining, Data Quality, Data Scientist, Digital Transformation, Generative AI, IT Leadership
Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI
CIO
MAY 14, 2024
HPE GreenLake, for example, is an as-a-service offering that brings cloud-like flexibility to data centers and other locations with higher levels of data security, according to HPE. Such private cloud solutions eliminate the risks of multitenancy data leakage, for example, a key CIO concern with AI. “We
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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold
CIO
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Hot: AI and VR/AR With digital transformations moving at full throttle, and a desire to stay innovative, it should come as no surprise that use cases for virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence continue to grow in several verticals.
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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future
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. It worked like magic. We are using both.
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AI’s Future: Not Always Bigger
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
MARCH 11, 2025
The US is proposing investing $500B in data centers for artificial intelligence, an amount that some commentators have compared to the USs investment in the interstate highway system. Jevons paradox has a big impact on what kind of data infrastructure is needed to support the growing AI industry.
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Krisp nearly triples fundraise with $9M expansion after blockbuster 2020
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
“AWS, Azure and Google Cloud turned out to be too expensive,” Baghdasaryan said. “We have invested in building a data center with Nvidia’s latest A100s in them. This will make our experimentation faster, which is crucial for ML companies.”
IT leaders weigh up AI’s role to improve data management
CIO
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
This doesn’t detract from the fact it’s a very advanced clinical data collection system since it’s digital, in real time, and secure because the data is encrypted on VPN and sent to Emergency’s central data center in Milan. We chose Microsoft and Azure OpenAI technology as our partner,” he says. “We
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Which workloads are best suited for cloud vs. on-premises or edge?
CIO
MARCH 8, 2023
It’s less about what application and data should go on public cloud and more about a continuum from the edge to core [in colocated or private data centers] to public cloud.” Close to the Edge There are several reasons why certain data and workloads need to remain at the edge, as opposed to transitioning to public cloud.
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College of Southern Nevada deploys AI avatar to better engage students
CIO
OCTOBER 10, 2023
“This integration of data, such as student grades and assignments due, with the avatar will enable a much more personalized approach,” Vaithylingam says, adding that he aims to deliver important support services — especially if a student’s grades start to drop or attendance is falling. Artificial Intelligence, CIO 100, Education Industry
Top 17 cloud cost management tools
CIO
JANUARY 26, 2023
See Azure Cost Management , Google Cloud Cost Management , and AWS Cloud Financial Management tools for the big three clouds. The tool also integrates machine learning and artificial intelligence to help analyze consumption patterns across multiple clouds. Currently available for AWS and Azure.
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CIO e gestione dei dati: come valorizzare il business aziendale con l’AI e la GenAI
CIO
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Ciò non toglie che sia un sistema di raccolta dei dati clinici molto avanzato: digitale, in tempo reale e sicuro, perché i dati sono crittati su VPN e mandati a Milano, dove EMERGENCY ha il suo data center centrale. Il data center di Milano effettua anche l’analisi dei dati, tramite Power BI di Microsoft.
Which Workloads Belong On-Premises as Part of Hybrid IT
CIO
AUGUST 5, 2022
It’s less about what application and data should go on public cloud and more about a continuum from the edge to core [in colocated or private data centers] to public cloud.”. There are several reasons why certain data and workloads need to remain at the edge, as opposed to transitioning to public cloud. Close to the Edge.
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Dissecting Alstom’s three-part IT strategy
CIO
JULY 19, 2023
We aim to give value to data and guarantee its digital continuity, from design conception to the operation process, including maintenance of the products we make. Right now, in the main projects we have, we use technologies like artificial intelligence, which we’ve been implementing in our service maintenance systems for many years.
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LA Public Defender CIO digitizes to divert people to programs, not prison
CIO
APRIL 4, 2024
So he was recruited to create a 20-year vision to establish a client-centered case management system to replace the “on-premise computer closets that was called a data center,” he says. He arrived at a crucial time when the office, laden with paper records and outdated legacy systems, desperately needed a digital overhaul.
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What is Oracle’s generative AI strategy?
CIO
JULY 6, 2023
AWS offers foundation models via its generative AI-based service Amazon Bedrock , while Microsoft offers APIs for GPT models via its Azure OpenAI service. Oracle is also planning to extend the service to enterprises that have their data and applications in their own data centers.
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Steps Gerresheimer takes to transform its IT
CIO
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
By mid-2023, Walldorf-based Gerresheimer had its IT strategy revised, and a central component of this was its cloud journey, for which CIO Zafer Nalbant and his team built a hybrid environment consisting of a public cloud part based on Microsoft Azure, and a private cloud part that runs in a data center completely managed by T-Systems.
Sustainable Software Talks and Latest News About Green Software
Apiumhub
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Carbon Emissions She addressed the growing impact of Artificial Intelligence on carbon emissions, quoting Dr. Sasha Luccioni’s perspective on the illogicality of using AI to address environmental issues caused by activities like deforestation.
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AltexSoft Team Members Attain Notable AWS and Azure Certifications
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. About AltexSoft AltexSoft is a technology consulting company specializing in travel tech and data services.
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10 most powerful ERP vendors today
CIO
MAY 23, 2024
The advantage Microsoft has is that it has integrated its ERP capabilities with the rest of the Microsoft ecosystem, including the Azure cloud and applications such as Power BI, Power Apps, and Dataverse. Dynamics 365 is primarily a SaaS solution hosted as a managed service.
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IT leaders grapple with shadow AI
CIO
JULY 27, 2023
Consequently, Parsons settled on the use of data-loss prevention (DLP) tools to prevent data exfiltration via generative AI. Our focus is embracing and accelerating the use of smart artificial intelligence, while managing it with DLP tools to ensure security,” says Wright.
The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Computing: What Your Business Needs To Know
OTS Solutions
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Some of the private clouds are HP Data Centers, Ubuntu, Elastic-Private cloud, Microsoft, etc. We have physical data centers. Cloud computing has cloud-based data centers. Data backup and recovery options can be a tedious task. You need to buy services and pay as you use them. It is static.
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When least privilege is the most important thing
CIO
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
The future is no brighter Nowadays, everyone is talking about artificial intelligence (AI). Traditional security methods that rely on data center and database-level controls will not work in this new world. Will we rely on AI to secure its own data – and can we trust that it can do that?
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Cloud Computing – Overview, Types, Benifits and Future Scope
The Crazy Programmer
JULY 13, 2019
IaaS is suitable for those companies who require computing resources like servers, firewall, data center, and storage capacity. For example: Microsoft Azure, Open Shift, Apache Stratos, Heroku, Beanstalk, Magento, etc. For example: software like Salesforce CRM dashboard, Quickbooks, Google Apps, Slack, Mint, etc. Image Source.
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The NBA’s digital transformation is a game-changer
CIO
JUNE 7, 2023
The third pillar of Bhagavathula’s cloud game plan includes the development of advanced applications not just for fans but for referees, players, teams, and coaches, all of whom rely more on data to improve their performance. Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation, Media and Entertainment Industry, Microsoft Azure
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