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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage
An audit report showed the space agency spent an additional $20 million over the same period in fines and overpayments to vendors such as IBM, SUSE, and SAP among others.
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Oracle’s Chicago cloud region targets manufacturing, financial services
The new public cloud region will offer over 100 OCI services and applications, including Oracle Autonomous Database, MySQL Heatwave, OCI Data Science, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Analytics.
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Oracle to invest $2.4 billion quarterly in cloud infra as demand grows in triple digits
Cloud services as a category has been growing faster than license support business for the company, which expects cloud infrastructure margins to improve in the coming quarters.
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IBM to acquire Octo to boost its US government business
Octo exclusively serves the US federal government, including its defense, health, and civilian agencies in digital transformation projects.
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Microsoft increases software, services pricing by up to 11% in India
The new prices, which will take effect from February 1, 2023, cover a large portfolio of Microsoft products including on-premises software, online services and Windows licenses.
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AWS makes a foray into supply chain management
At re:Invent 2022, the cloud services provider launched a new application that integrates machine learning to help enterprises get a unified view of their supply chain.
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AWS adds machine learning capabilities to Amazon Connect
At re:Invent 2022, Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of forecasting, capacity planning, scheduling, and Contact Lens features for its Amazon Connect contact center service, while introducing two new features in preview.
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AWS launches second region in India with a $4.4 billion commitment
The $4.4 billion investment for Hyderabad region is about 60% higher than the initial commitment of $2.8 billion announced by AWS for the region in 2020.
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Zendesk announces 300 job cuts to reduce costs
The layoffs are estimated to set Zendesk back by about $28 million, primarily due to costs incurred on severance payments and employee benefits.
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Cloud spending forecast to grow despite faltering global economy
Spending on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is expected to grow the most, with platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) showing signs of slowdown, Gartner reports.
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Macroeconomic jitters further slow AWS growth in Q3
Revenue for the third quarter of 2022 marks AWS’ slowest expansion in the last few quarters.
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ServiceNow buoyant about growth despite economic headwinds
The company remains confident of posting strong revenue numbers for the rest of the year despite uncertain macroeconomic conditions.
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Over 90% of companies overpay for project collaboration software: Report
SaaS purchasing platform Vertice reports that enterprises are overpaying between an average of 20%-30% for collaboration tools.
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Oracle adds Fusion Cloud features targeted at healthcare firms
At its CloudWorld conference, the company announced healthcare-oriented features for its Fusion Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Supply Chain and Manufacturing (SCM) and Human Capital Management (HCM) suites.
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Oracle opens up ERP app platform, updates Fusion Cloud offerings
At CloudWorld, Oracle said it's opening up its applications platform for ERP customer developers, unveiled a new B2B service, and announced a slew of updates to its EPM, SCM and HCM offerings.
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Oracle continues to lay off staff in the US
The 201 employees laid off from its Redwood Shores office in the latest round of cuts include data scientists, developers and marketing specialists, according to several news reports, and comes as hiring for IT slows.
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Google Cloud AI update adds translation, document services
The company has released a new AI-based translation service called Translation Hub and added two new features to its Document AI service.
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Google to add new cloud regions across five countries
The company is adding the new regions in Austria, Greece, Norway, South Africa, and Sweden to meet growing demand and help companies meet data sovereignty requirements.
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