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    Generative AI drives cloud spend blitz

    Public cloud spend will increase fourfold over the next three years, largely driven by growing generative AI workloads, according to TD Cowen.

    By • Oct. 3, 2025
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    SaaS spend jumps amid shifts in the vendor landscape

    Consumption-based pricing has left many companies struggling to track spending, leading to a proliferation of underutilized “shelfware,” according to BCG.

    By • Oct. 2, 2025
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    Digital transformation

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

    By CIO Dive staff
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    AWS taps BCG executive for EU sovereign cloud unit

    Stéphane Israël will serve as managing director for the division, which is set to launch by the end of the year.

    By • Sept. 29, 2025
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    VMware customers face crossroads as Broadcom ends vSphere 7 support

    “If you don't upgrade or renew, whatever the case might be, you will not get support from Broadcom,” said Spinnaker Support CTO Iain Saunderson.

    By • Sept. 29, 2025
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    SAP’s ERP support services raise antitrust concerns in EU

    SAP isn’t the first tech company scrutinized for its business practices. It could eventually be forced to make concessions to avoid hefty fines.

    By • Sept. 25, 2025
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    Data center crunch leads businesses to play the long game

    A rise in demand for AI services is propelling IT leaders to plan for capacity as far as five years in advance. 

    By • Sept. 23, 2025
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    Oracle elevates co-CEOs to shepherd AI cloud business

    The company appointed Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to chief executive officer roles Monday. Former CEO Safra Catz became executive vice chair of the board as part of the move.

    By • Sept. 22, 2025
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    Microsoft, Nvidia pour billions into UK data center buildout

    The U.S. tech giants are joining the largest AI infrastructure rollout in the country’s history, Nvidia said Tuesday.

    By • Sept. 17, 2025
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    Global AI spending to approach $1.5 trillion this year: Gartner

    Hyperscaler investments in GPUs and accelerators will nearly double the size of the AI server market, the analyst firm said Wednesday.

    By • Sept. 17, 2025
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    Mainframe skills gain traction with younger techies

    Millennials make up more than half of the mainframe workforce as generative AI workloads proliferate on the platform, according to a BMC study.

    By • Sept. 16, 2025
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    5 tech executive insights on the future of cloud

    Generative AI is broadening the cloud customer base beyond IT as enterprise adoption efforts accelerate, executives said Tuesday at a Goldman Sachs conference.

    By • Sept. 12, 2025
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    Oracle trumpets $6M private data center amid AI spending blitz

    The company added $10 billion to its capital investment plans for the fiscal year, reaching $35 billion, CEO Safra Catz said Tuesday.

    By • Sept. 10, 2025
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    SAP pours more than $23B into EU sovereign cloud buildout

    The ERP will expand access to its software through infrastructure services running in SAP data centers in Europe and to on-premises estates.

    By • Sept. 2, 2025
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    Nvidia CEO praises open-source AI as enterprises deploy GPU servers

    “Open-source models are opening up large enterprises, SaaS companies, industrial companies, robotics companies to now join the AI revolution,” Jensen Huang said.

    By • Aug. 28, 2025
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    Citi rolls out a pair of AI-powered banking platforms

    The financial firm’s data, analytics and innovation team deployed two client-communication assistants for its wealth advisory division Monday.

    By • Aug. 27, 2025
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    Walmart buys into VMware’s private cloud

    The retail giant plans to deploy the vendor’s virtualization software across its globally distributed operations, VMware parent company Broadcom said.

    By • Aug. 26, 2025
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    IT, business leaders clash over cloud, data security

    Executives plan to increase IT spend despite disappointing returns on tech investments, according to Unisys.

    By • Aug. 22, 2025
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    Cyber, AI drive software spending to double-digit growth through 2029

    Cloud security and identity and access management tool purchases insulated the market from tariff-induced economic shocks, according to Forrester.

    By • Aug. 19, 2025
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    Data center vacancies plummet amid power supply constraints

    Colocation vacancy rates in North America dropped to an historic low during the first half of the year, according to JLL.

    By • Aug. 18, 2025
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    Cisco banks on hardware refresh as AI boosts enterprise segment

    The company expects network traffic to reach “unprecedented levels” as agentic AI and inferencing workloads proliferate, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said Wednesday.

    By • Aug. 14, 2025
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    Microsoft axes volume discounts for SaaS suites

    The move is intended to standardize pricing for online services, including Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365, the company said Tuesday.

    By • Updated Aug. 14, 2025
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    Cloud’s big 3 continue to rule infrastructure services

    AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud commanded more than 70% of global IaaS spend in 2024, according to Gartner.

    By • Aug. 11, 2025
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    Why Capital One’s software division created its own data security tool

    When the bank couldn’t find a commercially available tokenization software tool, it tapped its engineering team to build one.

    By • Aug. 4, 2025
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    Amazon leans on AWS’ size, security as Q2 cloud market nears $100B

    “We have a meaningfully larger business in the AWS segment than others,” CEO Andy Jassy said during the company’s Q2 2025 earnings call Thursday.

    By • Aug. 1, 2025
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    Microsoft rebuked by UK regulators as cloud revenues soar

    Azure revenue increased 34% year over year to more than $75 billion in the last year, despite an ongoing capacity crunch, executives said Wednesday.

    By • July 31, 2025