TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Jeff Kukowski is CEO at CloudBolt, which helps companies automate easily, optimize continuously and govern at scale in hybrid and multicloud, multitool environments. With data centers alone consuming around 1% of global electricity demand , IT departments have substantial influence on their organization’s sustainability goals.

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Kentik

JUNE 27, 2023

Kentik customers move workloads to (and from) multiple clouds, integrate existing hybrid applications with new cloud services, migrate to Virtual WAN to secure private network traffic, and make on-premises data and applications redundant to multiple clouds – or cloud data and applications redundant to the data center.

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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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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.

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CIO

JUNE 21, 2024

As a nonprofit R&D center for the US government, MITRE is no stranger to AI. The AI data center pod will also be used to power MITRE’s federal AI sandbox and testbed experimentation with AI-enabled applications and large language models (LLMs). We are developing security from the ground layer.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I piani recentemente annunciati dall’azienda di fornire una connettività senza soluzione di continuità da Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ad AWS [in inglese] , oltre che per Microsoft Azure e Google Cloud, hanno sollevato alcune perplessità. Il progetto, Cloud Interlink, è in fase di incubazione nei suoi Juniper Beyond Labs.

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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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CIO

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Given LexisNexis’ core business, gathering and providing information and analytics to legal, insurance, and financial firms, as well as government and law enforcement agencies, the threat of generative AI is real. We use AWS and Azure. It was just staggering in terms of its capabilities.” We will pick the optimal LLM.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If you’re in the business of data centers or perhaps have a heavy research and development arm, you might be able to do it more cheaply yourself,” says Ciena CIO Craig Williams, who admits this may be an outlier position. “We He went with cloud provider Wasabi for those storage needs. “We

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s a form of rightsizing, trying to balance around cost effectiveness, capability, regulation, and privacy,” says Musser, whose team found it more cost effective to run some workloads on a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster in the company’s data center than on the cloud.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The certification covers high-level topics such as the information systems auditing process, governance and management of IT, operations and business resilience, and IS acquisition, development, and implementation. According to PayScale, the average annual salary for CISA certified IT pros is $114,000 per year.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2024

We of course handle all of the basics, whether it’s helping an organization get the most out of their deployments with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, but we also have people with significant expertise that isn’t easily replicated by the vast majority of enterprises today.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It was a tie for third place, with data governance issues, workload and data portability, regulatory compliance, and ensuring security across public clouds all cited by 24%. His choice of clouds — Oracle’s OCI and Microsoft’s Azure — was constrained by Reale’s reliance on Oracle’s Exadata platform.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Here, the work of digital director Umberto Tesoro started from the need to better use digital data to create a heightened customer experience and increased sales. Gartner suggests extending the data and analytics strategy to include AI and avoid fragmented initiatives without governance.

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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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CIO

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I’ve done that analysis and the infrastructure cost savings, specifically around hardware and private data center infrastructure is 40% cheaper in AWS than it would be in a private data center based on our calculations. Cloud Computing, Government IT But this is a superficial definition of multicloud, Randich says.

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CIO

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The company’s recently announced plans to provide deep, seamless connectivity from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to AWS , after similar announcements for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, have raised eyebrows. Oracle is providing a different template. The project, Cloud Interlink, is being incubated in its Juniper Beyond Labs. “We

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Una trasformazione che va gestita: gli esperti di Gartner [in inglese] suggeriscono di estendere la strategia data & analytics in modo da includere l’AI ed evitare iniziative frammentate prive di una governance. Il data center di Milano effettua anche l’analisi dei dati, tramite Power BI di Microsoft.

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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 have no choice.

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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. Freeing up valuable resources.

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Xebia

JUNE 17, 2024

At the time, we were running websites hosted in Azure App Service Environments exposed to the internet using an Azure Application Gateway, protected by a Web Application Firewall. We opened Azure Portal to investigate our Web Application Gateway. In our Azure tenant, we had an Azure DDoS Network Protection Plan.

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Ivanti

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Amanda and Chris share stories proving why your data really is more secure in the cloud than the average on-premises server closet – and what organizations should worry more about when it comes to data security. How data centers can stop fully loaded tractor trailers going 60 MPH [04:18]. Chris Goettl [00:04:12] Yeah.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2024

For many CIOs, embracing cloud point solutions has been a key facet of their strategy to get out of the data center management business. Instead, in working across Azure, “we use some proprietary solutions that we licensed and then do very simple coding,” he says.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

We also govern it with specialized expertise, certifications, and top-tier proprietary assets that enable us to exceed the most demanding service level agreements.” At WIIT we engineer, implement, and govern custom hybrid cloud and multi-cloud models in conjunction with the complex IT architectures our customers need.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We can’t immediately upend the entire power grid structure, but together with a willing and enthusiastic government and strong partners like VMware, we can make a difference. They are also becoming more and more aware that their data center operations are a very large contributor to their overall carbon footprint.

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CIO

JANUARY 26, 2023

See Azure Cost Management , Google Cloud Cost Management , and AWS Cloud Financial Management tools for the big three clouds. Some tools for surveying enterprise architectures or managing software governance now track costs at the same time. There’s also a focus on supporting public clouds used by governments.

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ParkMyCloud

APRIL 11, 2019

Additionally, you’d want to consider available services and networks provided to see the full scope of their resource capabilities and governance. But, Microsoft Azure and Google (GCP) are not far behind, and in recent years they have commanded innovation and market pricing reductions, thus closing gaps to bring them closer to AWS.

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CIO

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Cushman & Wakefield’s IT team has also developed and deployed Jasper AI and Azure OpenAI large language models (LLMs) for another key “persona” group: the firm’s advisory team. Companieh says she and her extensive team are also working on governance to prevent errors, remain in legal compliance, and deploy AI ethically.

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CIO

JULY 6, 2023

The service also comes with Nvidia’s foundation models, such as BioNeMo and Nvidia Picasso, along with AI training and governance frameworks. AWS offers foundation models via its generative AI-based service Amazon Bedrock , while Microsoft offers APIs for GPT models via its Azure OpenAI service.

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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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CIO

MARCH 2, 2023

Today, 42% of the nation’s federal agencies rely on Macquarie Government’s cloud solutions and services to address the most stringent security and sovereignty requirements. We also took the opportunity to see what he sees as the greatest misconception about data sovereignty. Our customers use and trust VMware,” he says.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 11, 2025

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that DeepSeeks low inference cost was subsidized by the Chinese government. Did DeepSeek steal training data from OpenAI? Jevons paradox has a big impact on what kind of data infrastructure is needed to support the growing AI industry. Did DeepSeek report its costs accurately?

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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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Datavail

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In 2016, the company launched “ A Cloud for Global Good ,” which included recommendations for government and industry to help technological opportunities get shared consistently to achieve digital transformation. When it comes to Azure, there are many critical layers to its security model. Microsoft Strategy: A Cloud for Global Good.

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CIO

DECEMBER 13, 2024

based finserv hosted workloads on a cloud platform within its own data centers. For example, by leveraging OpenShift, Discover and other enterprises can achieve portability across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM Cloud. For many years, the Riverwood, Ill.-based

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Instaclustr

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

But when you do, you’ll notice the difference right away.” Sure, this quote may be squarely about Instaclustr Managed PostgreSQL on Azure NetApp Files (ANF) but the underlying lesson certainly rings true for countless other (read: non-technical) situations as well: Going for a hike on a trail you already know like the back of your hand?

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In this blog, we’ll take you through our tried and tested best practices for setting up your DNS for use with Cloudera on Azure. Most Azure users use hub-spoke network topology. Most Azure users use hub-spoke network topology. Most users have restrictions on firewalls for wildcard rules.

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