Nvidia eyes everyday AI to sustain rapid revenue growth

The chipmaker saw quarterly revenues nearly double year over year to almost $40 billion as it ramped up production of the Blackwell GPU family.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 27, 2025

Data center vacancies hit historic lows despite capacity buildouts

Rental rates in Northern Virginia, Atlanta and other key markets increased 12.6% during the last half of 2024, according to CBRE research.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 26, 2025

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Digital transformation goes beyond technology — if companies want to engage in a new era of technology, they must rethink how work is done too.

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Cloud data storage woes drive cost overruns, business delays

Nearly two-thirds of organizations exceeded their budgets last year as unanticipated usage and egress fees piled up, according to Wasabi Technologies.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 26, 2025

Enterprises lean on FinOps to rein in SaaS, AI overspend

“Companies understand they need to do FinOps,” FinOps Foundation Executive Director J.R. Storment said. “The big ones — the mature ones — have gotten good at it.”

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 24, 2025

Akamai chases billions in revenue as cloud business expands

The company grew its distributed network to 41 locations in 36 cities globally last year and plans to add container services to its platform, CEO Tom Leighton said Thursday.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 21, 2025

AI hardware spending soared last year, thanks to cloud

Hyperscalers and digital service providers will push global AI infrastructure spending past $200 billion by 2028, according to IDC.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 19, 2025

Where confidential computing fits in the enterprise data strategy

The computing framework shields data privacy while in storage, transit or use – helping businesses reduce the risks involved in data sharing.

By Kamal Janardhan and Nelly Porter • Feb. 19, 2025

AI drives up compute costs as cloud inflation slows

Competition among hyperscalers AWS, Microsoft and Google has given CIOs an opening to lock in lower infrastructure service rates.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 18, 2025

AWS tightens up SaaS marketplace discount policy

The hyperscaler will require third-party software to run on AWS infrastructure to qualify for commitment-based discounts starting May 1.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 13, 2025

SAP leans on Databricks to unify business analytics in the cloud

The ERP giant rolled out its SAP Business Data Cloud platform along with four Joule copilot agents Thursday.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 13, 2025

Financial firms plan to increase software spending this year

Despite buyer’s remorse, most organizations intend to boost investments in AI, IT management and security solutions this year, Capterra found.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 11, 2025

Generative AI fueled $60B boost in enterprise cloud spend last year

“The technology might be expensive, but it is creating new services that are bringing in tens of billions of dollars for the cloud providers,” Synergy Research Group Chief Analyst John Dinsdale said.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 10, 2025

How Mondelēz laid the groundwork for a major digital overhaul

The snack maker spent 18 months gearing up for transformation, which will include data center exits, workload migrations, generative AI exploration and an ERP upgrade.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Feb. 10, 2025

Amazon to boost AWS capacity with $100B investment

The company will keep fueling infrastructure spend to support AI and cloud, amid what CEO Andy Jassy described as a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 7, 2025

Google plans $75B investment to build out cloud AI capacity

The majority of the spending will target technical infrastructure, including servers and data centers, CFO Anat Ashkenazi said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 5, 2025

Enterprises lean on container solutions to deploy generative AI

The move to scale use cases revealed limitations in existing IT infrastructure, a Nutanix report found.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 5, 2025

Microsoft races to bring more cloud capacity online

Enterprise AI workloads and OpenAI training consumed Azure resources last year. “We have been short power and space,” CFO Amy Hood said.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 30, 2025

How JPMorgan Chase’s infrastructure chief keeps the AI engine humming

The bank is sourcing compute resources five to 10 years out, said Darrin Alves, CIO of infrastructure platforms.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 30, 2025

SAP unveils additional ERP transition support in ongoing cloud push

The ERP giant will offer business continuity services through 2033 to customers facing complex migrations, the company said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 28, 2025

Tech execs grapple with budget sinkholes as AI drives up spend

Unpredictable cloud bills, outdated software licenses and shadow IT frustrate FinOps efforts, according to Apptio.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 27, 2025

Banks fire up coding assistants as AI costs plummet

“Generative AI is going to impact every function within a bank — every single part of the job,” Accenture Global Banking Lead Michael Abbott said.

By Matt Ashare • Updated Jan. 27, 2025

Travelers’ modernization push yields efficiency, productivity gains

The insurer more than doubled strategic tech investments since 2017 while reining in routine IT spending, CEO Alan Schnitzer said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 23, 2025

Google Cloud links poor credentials to nearly half of cloud-based attacks

Cloud services with weak credentials were prime target for attackers, often resulting in lateral movement attempts, a Google Cloud report found.

By Matt Kapko • Jan. 23, 2025

Capital One touts efficiency gains from long-haul IT makeover

"Efficiency was never the objective function," CEO Richard Fairbank said Tuesday. "It was one of the many benefits of a tech transformation."

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 22, 2025

PC shipments saw sluggish growth in 2024 despite AI hype

 IT leaders leveraged cloud for AI and took a wait-and-see approach to investing in souped up AI PCs, according to Gartner.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 17, 2025