Snowflake gets a Q3 boost from surging enterprise data consumption

The data cloud provider expanded vendor partnerships to enhance analytics and embed more generative AI tools in its products.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 22, 2024

Microsoft, Oracle to add 24 regions to multicloud alliance

The two providers have opened nine Oracle Database@Azure locations since 2023.

By Matt Ashare • Updated Nov. 21, 2024

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Enterprise AI outcomes depend heavily on the health of datasets on hand —  and the talent that manages them.

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European tech alliance rolls out switching specs to ease multicloud adoption

The lobbying group released a framework to help standardize EU Data Act compliance ahead of the 2025 enforcement deadline.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 11, 2024

How the Indiana Pacers, Fever upped their data game in cloud

“We took a sledgehammer to every wall and silo we had in the business,” Jared Chavez, data engineering and strategy manager at Pacers Sports & Entertainment, said.

By Matt Ashare • Oct. 18, 2024

JPMorgan Chase leads banking sector in AI adoption: report

In a tightening race, Capital One gained ground by adding engineering talent, according to Evident research published Thursday.

By Matt Ashare • Oct. 17, 2024

Citi reaps rewards from modernization investments

The bank retired 450 legacy applications this year and over 1,250 since 2022, CFO Mark Mason said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • Oct. 15, 2024

3 effective cooling strategies for high-density IT racks

How can you prevent a data center meltdown? From air cooling best practices to advanced liquid cooling methods, explore effective strategies to manage high-density IT racks and ensure your infrastructure remains cool under pressure.

By Philip Pokorny, Chief Technical Officer, Penguin Solutions • Aug. 26, 2024

How J.C. Penney is using AI and machine learning in its supply chain

The department store retailer is investing heavily in new technology to improve productivity and upgrade its legacy systems.

By Philip Neuffer • Aug. 20, 2024

Answering the big post-outage question: “Are we all patching wrong?”

Adaptiva CEO Deepak Kumar answers pressing patching questions in light of the recent global outage.

Aug. 13, 2024

How to avoid ‘death-by-ROI’ in data and analytics

Effective leaders connect value assessments to company goals, blurring the boundaries between data estates and the processes they support.

By Brian Foster • Aug. 8, 2024

Inside USAA’s 3-year push to clean up a massive data estate

Chief Data and Analytics Officer Ramnik Bajaj set firm migration deadlines for the company’s move to a centralized Snowflake environment.

By Matt Ashare • July 17, 2024

Citi leans on tech modernization to fix data quality management failings

Days after federal regulators hit the bank with more than $130 million in fines, CEO Jane Fraser said Citi's transformation efforts addressed "decades of underinvestment."

By Matt Ashare • July 12, 2024

AWS adds step-by-step guides to its AI assistant’s capabilities

The company is “trying to save agents time but also lower the cognitive load,” VP of Customer Experience Pasquale DeMaio said.

By Bryan Wassel • July 2, 2024

Enterprise cloud storage spend to double by 2028 as AI ramps up

AWS dominated the segment with a 30% share of the nearly $60 billion market last year, according to Omdia’s analysis.

By Matt Ashare • June 28, 2024

Cyber, AI and data dominate upskilling priorities, Skillsoft finds

The three categories align with the positions businesses are having the greatest difficulty filling, according to the report.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • June 21, 2024

Accenture banks $2B in AI deals as enterprises double down on data

“Every other GenAI project is now leading to some data project,” Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said Thursday.

By Matt Ashare • June 20, 2024

IT pros worry over the data that fuels AI

More than 2 in 5 technologists have already had a negative AI experience, according to a SolarWinds survey.

By Matt Ashare • June 18, 2024

Snowflake aims to ease analytics headaches, embeds Nvidia AI in data cloud

The vendor-agnostic Polaris Catalog streamlines access across Apache Iceberg data tables and extends the company’s integrations with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

By Matt Ashare • June 5, 2024

JPMorgan ramps up prompt engineering training, AI projects

The bank estimates its AI use cases can deliver up to $1.5 billion in value, according to President and COO Daniel Pinto.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 28, 2024

Snowflake banks on building modestly sized AI models

“Companies are talking about spending billions of dollars. I don’t think we need to be there,” CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said during the company’s earnings call Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • May 24, 2024

Enterprises outsource data storage as complexity rises

An overload of operations data, ongoing business growth and expanding web analytics are pushing data estates to their limit, according to a Forrester report.

By Matt Ashare • May 10, 2024

IT executives rethink data strategies as enterprises push AI adoption

Disruptive LLM technologies drove more than half of organizations to evolve analytics operating models, elevating the chief data officer role, according to Gartner research.

By Matt Ashare • April 29, 2024

Snowflake launches Arctic, an LLM focused on transparency

The data cloud company peeled back the curtain on the open-source model’s architecture and released a “cookbook” of technical specifications.

By Matt Ashare • April 24, 2024

JPMorgan Chase CEO wants more cloud to fuel AI, analytics

The banking giant aims to have 75% of its data and 70% of its applications in the cloud this year, Jamie Dimon said in a letter to shareholders.

By Matt Ashare • April 12, 2024

Enterprise cloud costs spiral despite FinOps adoption, report finds

Organizations are overprovisioning storage and overconsuming bandwidth, according to a Forrester survey commissioned by Boomi.

By Matt Ashare • April 10, 2024