AWS expands cloud footprint, extends useful life of servers

Amazon saw cloud segment revenue grow to more than $90 billion in 2023, as customers began easing cost optimization efforts.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 2, 2024

Microsoft, Google build out cloud capacity as AI powers consumption

Both hyperscalers expect to increase data center infrastructure investments this year to meet growing customer demand for AI computing.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 31, 2024

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SAP revamps migration support programs, adds financial incentives

The software company will give customers credits and technical support to offset adoption costs as part of its RISE and GROW programs.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 30, 2024

Southwest Airlines to spend $1.7B on tech, cloud migration this year

The commercial carrier has shifted just under half of its tech estate to cloud, President and CEO Bob Jordan said Thursday.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 29, 2024

What’s behind SAP’s massive restructuring push?

“Cloud is the big elephant in the room for SAP," Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Liz Herbert said.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 26, 2024

IBM leans hard on consulting, governance to drive AI business

“Just as we quickly ramped a meaningful practice around Red Hat to address the hybrid cloud opportunity, we are on a similar trajectory with generative AI,” CEO Arvind Krishna said.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 25, 2024

Software, IT services to accelerate tech spend: Forrester

Enterprise and government investment in technology will grow 5.3% year over year, reaching $4.7 trillion this year, the firm projects.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 23, 2024

Can FinOps save cloud from itself in 2024?

Mistakes were made. Budgets ballooned. Repatriations commenced. Now, enterprises are learning from costly migrations.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 22, 2024

IBM buys Advanced’s mainframe modernization unit to deepen consulting bench

The deal also bolsters IBM’s broader hybrid cloud strategy, complementing the application refactoring capabilities of watsonx Code Assistant for Z.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 19, 2024

Google Cloud pulls back on egress fees in multicloud play

The hyperscaler removed charges for customers migrating data to another cloud provider or on-prem.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 12, 2024

Google lays off hundreds of workers, citing organizational changes

Several divisions were impacted, including teams in central engineering, augmented reality and the Assistant unit.

By Roberto Torres • Jan. 12, 2024

SAP adds board-level cloud migration unit, reshuffles executive roles

The ERP behemoth aims to ease customers’ journey to SaaS as it moves to a usage-based pricing model.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 11, 2024

Nvidia unveils laptop AI chip, developer toolkit

The GPU manufacturer is expanding its enterprise IT ambitions and portfolio as the race to deploy LLMs closer to the business user intensifies.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 10, 2024

CompTIA bolsters training portfolio, adds AI fundamentals and AWS pro certs

The rollout will include new cybersecurity, data science and full-stack credentials and refresh five existing certification programs.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 3, 2024

Enterprises plan to boost reliance on distributed cloud

Data-hungry LLMs are pushing workloads to the edge as IT leaders seek to bring data and infrastructure closer together.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 2, 2024

Industry clouds set for slow start in the new year: Forrester

Cost and lack of clear path to ROI to hinder adoption in 2024, according to the analyst firm’s research.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 21, 2023

How Capital One, Arvest Bank keep cloud costs under control

Industry best practices, tools and data hygiene help the two organizations get clarity on total cost of ownership.

By Roberto Torres • Dec. 20, 2023

Gartner elevates Oracle in annual hyperscaler assessment

The company joined AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud as a leading provider in the analyst firm’s annual review of strategic cloud platform service vendors.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 18, 2023

Enterprise cloud aspirations hindered by buyer’s remorse

Most organizations are saddled with second thoughts about their primary hyperscaler contract as adoptions proceed.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 14, 2023

Software spend to rebound in 2024 as ERP, database move to SaaS

After two years of flat revenue growth, Forrester expects software vendors to see incremental upticks going forward.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 13, 2023

Oracle embarks on data center building spree

The company had “billions of dollars more in contracted demand than we currently can supply," CTO Larry Ellison said Monday.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 12, 2023

‘Tis the season for a retail tech-stack rethink

An influx of in-store technologies has CIOs leaning toward cloud for integration solutions, according to research by Bain and Aptos.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 12, 2023

Cloud customers undeterred by cost, billing complexity

Most companies are satisfied with their primary provider, Forrester research found. But compliance, resilience and flexibility are luring them to multicloud.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 11, 2023

McDonald’s taps Google Cloud to super-size analytics, AI

The fast food giant said it plans to leverage the hyperscaler’s hardware and software capabilities across thousands of locations worldwide.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 7, 2023

Accenture helps Unilever boost AI adoption

The partnership leverages the IT services firm’s $3 billion investment in the technology, and follows Unilever's launch of an AI research lab last month.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 6, 2023