CIO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Google on Wednesday told the European Union (EU) that Microsoft is illegally using its dominant market position in Windows to force enterprises to use its Azure cloud service or face a 400% price penalty and a denial of upgrades and security patches. He pointed to the continued market dominance of AWS as one proof point.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

With the cloud being an inevitable part of enterprise digital transformation journeys, IT leaders must keep on top of the latest developments in the cloud market to better predict downstream impacts on their roadmaps. Here is a closer look at recent and forecasted developments in the cloud market that CIOs should be aware of.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2025

Some cloud architect roles are tailored to AWS or Azure while others may be targeted at specific knowledge areas such as infrastructure or blockchain. Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert : This expert-level certification from Microsoft validates your skills in designing solutions that run on Azure.

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CIO

JANUARY 30, 2025

Given that the field of AI is a relatively new and emerging area, skills are in short supply, and anyone with skills can command a market premium. Finding and retaining people with the requisite skills tops this list. Another problem is that the adoption of automation in infrastructure is not at the level required.

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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%. Here are the top cloud market trends and how they are impacting CIO’s cloud strategies.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

According to IDC’s Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide (August 2024) , the global AI market is expected to surge from US$235 billion in 2024 to US$632 billion by 2028. Tencent Cloud stands to benefit, particularly in APAC, where market size is predicted to grow from US$45.4 billion in 2024 to over US$110 billion by 2028.

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CIO

JANUARY 1, 2025

AerCap CEO Aengus Kelly gambled that merging two market leaders in the aircraft leasing industry, one of the biggest M&A deals in recent years valued at around $30 billion, would pay off as the sector bounced back from a slump caused by the pandemic. Hes very clear its a holding maneuver before theyre moved to Azure.

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

In his latest AI positioning statement, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that everything must revolve around Azure. In this world, Azure must become the infrastructure for AI, while we build our AI platform and developer tools spanning Azure AI Foundry, GitHub, and VS Code on top of it.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2025

Historically, cloud migration usually meant moving on-premises workloads to a public cloud, like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure. These are both managed NoSQL databases on Azure and AWS, respectively. You may need to overhaul configurations. As an example, take CosmosDB and DynamoDB.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

If the ban is enacted, cloud-based deployments on Azure, AWS, and Nvidia could be discontinued, potentially requiring urgent migration to alternative models, said Anil Clifford, founder of UK-based IT consulting firm Eden Consulting. per one million output tokens for its R1 reasoning model. Other experts, such as agentic AI-providing Doozer.AI

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Microsoft is extending the Startup Founders Hub, its self-service platform that provides founders with free resources including Azure credits, with a new incubator program called the Pegasus Program. “This signals to us that they are ready to go up market to enterprise customers,” Yang added.

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Perficient

AUGUST 4, 2024

Microsoft’s Azure Integration Services , a suite of tools designed to seamlessly connect applications, data, and processes, is emerging as a game-changer for the financial services industry. Azure Integration Services minimize the need for extensive physical hardware and maintenance, resulting in significant cost savings.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

CRAWL: Design a robust cloud strategy and approach modernization with the right mindset Modern businesses must be extremely agile in their ability to respond quickly to rapidly changing markets, events, subscriptions-based economy and excellent experience demanding customers to grow and sustain in the ever-ruthless competitive world of consumerism.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

tech giant’s attempts to deepen its ties with young firms in the South Asian market. As part of a memorandum of understanding that Microsoft has signed with the Indian Space Research Organization, the firm will also provide space tech startups with go-to-market support and help them become enterprise ready, it said. million, with $108.52

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CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Employee knowledge of their companys products, processes, and the markets they operate in and customers they sell to is often uncoded and tacit. This year we saw online education giant Chegg lose 99% of its market value, or $14.5 With AI, this means augmenting your existing skills base and leveraging your human assets.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2025

AI services require high resources like CPU/GPU and memory and hence cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud provide many AI services including features for genAI. The rapid impact of AI costs on diverse cross-functional teams adds to the complexity.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2025

According to Precedence Research, the global gen AI market was over $25 billion in 2024 and is forecast to reach a staggering $803 billion by 2033. Perplexity is built on Microsoft Azure. Gen AI has entered the enterprise in a big way since OpenAI first launched ChatGPT in 2022. The free version leverages OpenAIs GPT-3.5

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

We had a legacy solution that was built on-prem using.NET and monolith patterns with many components reaching end-of-life, with the concomitant high maintenance costs and slow time-to-market for introducing business features. Time to market. Time to market got shortened by 15% on average.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

SAIC, a technology integrator serving the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets, in May 2024 introduced its Tenjin GPT on Microsoft Azure and the OpenAI platform to all 24,000 of the company’s employees. Initial use cases enhance workflows at strategic points throughout the organization.

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The MongoDB development happened when the organization was putting all force into developing a Microsoft Azure-type PaaS in 2007. is their latest version that was supported by MS Azure CosmosDB since August 2020. Since September 2021, MongoDB Inc has had a market cap of over $32.79 MongoDB History. MongoDB 3.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Instead, you farm out your infrastructure needs to the major cloud platforms, namely Amazon AWS , Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. So spending less on AWS or Azure would be nice for startups. How did Yotascale know when it found product market fit? And you don’t build an in-house data center team.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. The sky’s the limit for the cloud market. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s “Azure and other cloud services” grew 35%. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Battery believes that the cloud market could eventually be worth $1 trillion. Microsoft also breaks out growth for its Azure service, but with other services included in the reporting category, the exact number is harder to nail down. What’s more, the data implies a healthy pipeline of major cloud IPOs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

” Baffle supports all major cloud platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, and it’s currently used to protect more than 100 billion records in financial services, healthcare, retail, industrial IoT and government, according to the startup.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Market shifts, mergers, geopolitical events, and the pandemic have further driven IT to deploy point solutions, increasing complexity. Running consistently across data centers, edge, AWS, and Azure, it allows IT to extend to public clouds, reduce migration times, ensure availability, and control costs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

These companies want to deploy minimum cloud computing to reduce infrastructure costs and technical decisions so they can focus on product and market strategy. Then this company signed a new customer based in China who insisted on having their entire cloud solution on Azure-China, a subset of Azure (level 2).

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A UK law firm on Tuesday filed what amounts to a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of using its market share to overcharge clients running Windows Server on AWS, Google, or Alibaba cloud offerings instead of on Microsoft Azure. The lawsuit is seeking more than £1 billion (roughly US$1.3 Kimball asked.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

While the agentic AI market is in its early days, CIOs who are optimistic about the promise of AI agents are aware of the need for managing and monitoring AI agent workflows in real-time. What is needed is a single view of all of my AI agents I am building that will give me an alert when performance is poor or there is a security concern.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

CoreWeave was founded in 2017 by Intrator, Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee to address what they saw as “a void” in the cloud market. billion in revenue last year, while Google Cloud and Azure made $75.3 The startup managed to secure funding even coming off of a rough quarter for the cloud infrastructure market.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Implementing AI with confidence Mapping like this represents the first step towards building a culture of continuous improvement and adaptability, ensuring that utility companies can rapidly respond to evolving regulations and changing market demands. Working with a trusted industry leader is a surefire way to do this confidently.

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CIO

MAY 30, 2024

There are an additional 10 paths for more advanced generative AI certification, including software development, business, cybersecurity, HR and L&D, finance and banking, marketing, retail, risk and compliance, prompt engineering, and project management.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Most of them are still fairly complicated, no matter what their marketing copy says. The service can pull in data from most of the standard databases and data warehousing services, including AWS Redshift, Azure Synapse, Google BigQuery, Snowflake and Oracle.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Microsoft is working closely with partners — including Bayer, Cerence, Rockwell Automation, Saifr, Siemens Digital Industries Software, and Sight Machine — to leverage its Phi family of SLMs so it can provide these adapted AI models through the Azure AI model catalog. Among the first models released is E.L.Y.

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors 1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Snowflake's projected 8 2022 research and development costs are 20% of revenue, and their sales and marketing costs are 48%!

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2024

The global cloud infrastructure services market remains strong, buoyed in part by enterprise interest in AI. According to a new report from Canalys, the top three cloud providers — AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud — collectively grew by 24% this quarter to account for 63% of total spending. Sonnet and other APIs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Microsoft has held conversations to invest in the Indian play-to-earn gaming platform Zupee in recent weeks and proposed to potentially lead a funding round of over $100 million, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, the latest in a series of bets from the cloud services giant to expand its business in the key overseas market.

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