What’s been happening in the tech and vendor world in February 2023? We compiled the latest vendor news and trending topics of the past month. It takes just a few minutes to be up to date.
SoftwareOne has unveiled a new brand identity and market positioning that reflects the company’s transformation over the last five years. During this time, we have evolved from a licensing reseller to a global software and cloud solutions provider that helps organisations unlock the value of technology. Marilyn Moodley shared insights into the new brand on Digital Street.
We are a proud sponsor of the FinOps Foundation’s Community Day Europe in Amsterdam on 21st March 2023. The event is aimed at anyone involved in building a FinOps practice and a culture of continuous improvement.
We know that a contract negotiation is almost never a walk in the park. You need to start preparing six to twelve months before you start the negotiation process, and you should know that software vendors are motivated by their own strategy, pricing, discounts, bundles, and sales drivers. So how do you make contract negotiation a walk in the park?
Our biggest partner Microsoft has joined us by becoming a Premier member of the FinOps Foundation, highlighting the importance FinOps now represents to IT organisations around the world. Working with Microsoft and the FinOps Foundation, SoftwareOne continues to help promote FinOps best practice.
Azure OpenAI Service now generally available, more businesses can apply for access to the most advanced AI models in the world. Helping businesses and developers with high-performance AI models at production scale with industry-leading uptime leveraging GPT-3-powered natural language Codex, and DALL•E 2 to create cutting-edge applications.
It’s been a big month of AI led announcements from Microsoft. Firstly, Microsoft together with OpenAI, introduced an all new AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser. New Bing runs on a new next-generation OpenAI large language model that takes key learnings and advancements from ChatGPT and GPT-3.5. It also announced the launch of AI powered Microsoft Teams Premium built on the latest technologies, including Large Language Models by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5, to make meetings more intelligent, personalized, and protected. Finally, a new generative AI-powered experience was introduced in Microsoft Viva Sales . Leveraging the power of Azure OpenAI Service and GPT, Viva Sales provides access to rich, people-centric data and insights in the Microsoft Cloud.
AWS is planning to invest an estimated $4.5 billion (approx. A$6.8 billion) in Australia by 2037 and has launched its second infrastructure region in Australia. The general availability of AWS Telco Network Builder was introduced, a fully managed service to help Communications Service Providers (CSPs) deploy and manage public and private telco networks on AWS.
HPE and VMware advance their partnership to drive digital transformation with Integrated Hybrid Cloud Experience.
Oracle and Red Hat expand cloud collaboration to offer customers a greater choice of operating systems to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
By now you know that Oracle changed its subscription model and global price list for Oracle Java SE. But do you know already how that can impact your organisation? Understand what the change means and how you can mitigate the impact:
The FinOps Foundation have just released the results of their 2023 State of FinOps research, read the latest report to find out how you compare to your peers on your FinOps journey.
According to a study from S&P Global Market Intelligence, commissioned by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, 98% of enterprises using public cloud have adopted a multi-cloud infrastructure provider strategy.
Forrester Research says global tech spending will grow 4.7% to reach $4.4 trillion with Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa to witness the fastest regional tech spend growth.
GLG conducted a survey of 100 IT and business decision makers at ISVs. This panel indicated that their organisations saw improvements in key metrics stemming from their adoption of AWS for the development and deployment of their products and services.
Global public cloud revenues reached a record $544 billion in 2022, up 21% yearly. Despite economic challenges, including inflation and numerous IT companies cutting staff in 2022, public cloud sales con-tinued to increase with no signs of slowing down in 2023 and beyond.
90% of APAC enterprises plan to deploy AI over the next 12 months which includes IT operations, security, and customer support and service.
SoftwareOne Benchmarking and Negotiating Service puts you in the driver’s seat. We help future-proof your business with optimal pricing and commercially favourable terms.
SoftwareOne Benchmarking and Negotiating Service puts you in the driver’s seat. We help future-proof your business with optimal pricing and commercially favourable terms.
