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SUSE changes colors again in private ownership pivot

After just over two years as a public listed firm, SUSE is to take operations private following an announcement by its biggest shareholder, EQT Private Equity.

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New Certinia update provides “pragmatic AI”

Certinia, the platform for services business, has announced its summer 2023 product release with new AI capabilities.

IBM and Microsoft expand collaboration with GenAI offering

IBM and Microsoft expand their partnership in order to accelerate the deployment of generative AI and provide a new offering called the IBM Consulting Azure OpenAI Service.

Analytics and AI

PwC joins the AI trend with its own ChatPwC

PwC is slowly releasing its new generative AI tool named ChatPwC, which has already been released to approx. 1,000 employees.

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St. Luke’s safeguards millions of patient records with Rubrik and Microsoft

Rubrik helps healthcare services non-profit achieve over 73 percent cost savings using data security solutions alongside Microsoft Sentinel.

SUSE C-suite complete with CFO and CSO refresh

SUSE has appointed Ian Halifax as CFO and Frank Feldmann as CSO to complete the company's strengthened executive leadership team.

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CIQ, Oracle and SUSE create OpenELA following RHEL changes

CIQ, Oracle and SUSE have announced their intent to form the OpenELA to drive the development of distributions compatible with RHEL.

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IBM closes $5bn Apptio deal

IBM is rumoured to want to acquire Apptio, which could be beneficial as it is a big player in helping companies manage what they spend on technology, an area IBM has been seeking to grow in.

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U.S. Steel and Google Cloud collab on GenAI transformation

U.S. Steel has collaborated with Google Cloud to leverage generative AI to enhance operations at the largest iron ore mine in North America.

Oracle debuts Compute Cloud@Customer

Oracle unveiled Compute Cloud@Customer, to enable enterprises to leverage OCI compute across diverse locations.

John Lewis Partnership and Google Cloud collab on £100m digital deal

John Lewis Partnership has teamed up with Google Cloud for a deal worth £100m spanning the next five years, focused on a digital transformation of its retail stores.

Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan and Accenture to form a joint venture

Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Inc. and Accenture have agreed to form a joint venture, which they will embark on in January 2024.

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Kyndryl adopts gen AI for businesses with Microsoft collaboration

Kyndryl has entered into a collaboration with Microsoft to enable the adoption of enterprise-grade generative AI solutions for businesses on the Microsoft Cloud.

HPE CFO Robbiati to step down for RingCentral CEO role

HPE has announced it has accepted the resignation of Tarek Robbiati, executive vice president and CFO, effective August 25.

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L3Harris Technologies arms its ERP systems with RISE with SAP

L3Harris has partnered with RISE with SAP to support the aerospace company’s strategy to transform to a single ERP platform.

Salesforce lets enterprises plug in own AI models through Einstein Studio

Salesforce has launched BYOM Einstein Studio to make it easy for businesses to use proprietary data to build and deploy AI models.

Cognizant and Google Cloud partner for healthcare innovation

Cognizant and Google Cloud are hoping to create healthcare large language mode solutions, bringing the potential of generative AI to a range of healthcare business challenges.

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IBM and NASA’s watsonx.ai lifts off on Hugging Face for climate mission

In the face of climate change, data is more important than ever. IBM and NASA hope watsonx.ai can drive Earth science innovation.

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phoenixNAP expands cloud platform with cloud-native HPE servers

HPE has announced that phoenixNAP, a global IT services provier, is expanding its Bare Metal Cloud Platform with cloud-native HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 servers, using energy-efficient processors from Ampere Computing.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

AWS revenue growth in Q2 beats analyst expectations

Amazon’s second quarter financial results have shown revenue from its cloud unit Amazon Web Services rise 12 percent year on year.

Salesforce picks up the Slack with Sales Elevate and CRM app

Salesforce has announced the general availability of Slack Sales Elevate which integrates Sales Cloud with Slack to create a personalized sales home that centralizes information, simplifies processes and automates administrative tasks.

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Samsara reveals electric vehicles to drive future enterprise operations

Samsara has announced new research revealing that over half (55 percent) of physical operations leaders surveyed in the UK and Ireland could have a hybrid or electric fleet by 2025, rising from 42 percent currently.

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United BioSource with Oracle Argus sees pharma leave premises

United BioSource, LLC (UBC), a provider of evidence-based research for the biopharma industry, has migrated its safety functions from on-premises to Oracle Argus Cloud Service.

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Sumitomo and AWS to reduce Japan’s carbon footprint

Sumitomo and AWS partner to take a step forward in the realm of digital transformation, sustainable practices and AI-driven innovations.

Oracle secures the cloud for DoD

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has introduced a new Secure Cloud Computing Architecture (SCCA) for the U.S Department of Defense.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Capgemini results boast good news, generative AI “patisserie”

Capgemini results for the first half (H1) of 2023 saw revenues of €11.426m, up 6.9 percent from the same period last year.

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Lemongrass lets you move SAP environments with ‘near-zero’ downtime

Lemongrass has unveiled LCP Migrate, designed to help companies move SAP environments of any size to the Cloud with little to zero downtime.