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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

But this kind of virtuous rising tide rent, which benefits everyone, doesn’t last. Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. “In

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

CIO Business Intelligence

MuleSoft, acquired by Salesforce in 2018 for $5.7 Also, an integration of MuleSoft’s and Informatica’s offerings later down the line, according to Jain, would allow Salesforce customers the option to consolidate their spending and probably get pricing benefits. billion in 2022. What Informatica has to gain or lose? billion and $1.6

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

CIO Business Intelligence

These changes were designed to lead to an integrated VCF solution that will bring broader long-term benefits to our valued customers both in their own data centers and in the cloud with increased portability to move workloads among on-premise data centers and supported cloud providers. He has held this position since March 2006.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO Business Intelligence

AWS also builds its own low-cost AI chips ( Inferentia and Trainium ) in limited volumes; the company is using the chips internally to power its gen AI capabilities, and it is making the chips available to customers. The gen AI gold rush — with little clarity on cost “It’s the year of AI,” declares Forrester Research.

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For the planet and people: IBM’s focus on AI ethics in sustainability

IBM Big Data Hub

“But it’s important to reap these benefits while minimizing the environmental impact. According to the European Union’s 2023 Energy Efficiency Directive , Europe’s data center electricity consumption is expected to grow 28% from 2018 to 2030, exemplifying the environmental costs of AI usage.

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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

CIO Business Intelligence

Then in March, the pandemic hit and hotel activity stopped, but it gave us the chance to accelerate the company’s transformation and digitalization process that started in 2018 with a five-year plan. Until then, the IT part of Radisson was considered a cost center, but thanks to that plan, it became a central pillar of the group’s strategy.

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Don’t let NetOps “gotchas” derail your digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Another report found that between 2018 and 2022, the percentage of NetOps teams that are successful with their overall missions has declined from 47% to 27%. Public cloud Public cloud services are popular because they offer organizations flexibility, lower costs, and more rapid deployments.