AWS pares back data transfer costs

The largest hyperscaler is the latest provider to waive egress fees, following a similar announcement by Google Cloud in January.

By Matt Ashare • March 5, 2024

Fees consume nearly half of cloud data storage spending: report

Most enterprise customers exceeded object storage budgets last year and expect to increase spending in 2024, according to Wasabi.

By Matt Ashare • March 4, 2024

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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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Snowflake details next stage of AI data strategy as new CEO takes the helm

The retirement of Snowflake’s CEO and ascendance of its SVP of AI punctuates an AI-fueled data boom for the company. 

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 29, 2024

Kubernetes cloud costs spike as overprovisioning persists

Despite optimization efforts, enterprises regularly buy more compute than needed to run containerized workloads, according to a Cast AI analysis.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 28, 2024

Average software waste hit $18M last year despite optimization push

Overall SaaS spending fell year over year, but shadow IT overspend and app redundancies persisted, Zylo research found.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 27, 2024

Cloud intrusions spiked 75% in 2023, CrowdStrike says

Threat actors took advantage of inconsistent cloud security structures, abusing unique features of the technology to initiate attacks.

By Matt Kapko • Feb. 26, 2024

Cloud waste, hyperscaler discounts shape FinOps priorities

As enterprises brace for ballooning AI spend, the pressure’s on to squeeze the most out of commitment-based discounts and existing deployments.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 23, 2024

Nvidia ramps up GPU production to fuel AI data center revolution

The chipmaker expects demand to outpace supply through the year. “We’ll do our best,” CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 22, 2024

Cost rules in enterprise software purchases

Demand for AI and cyber capabilities is driving enterprise customers to add functionality and upgrades to recently purchased solutions, according to Gartner.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 22, 2024

Why enterprises neglect billions in cloud savings

ProsperOps analyzed $1.5 billion in AWS compute spend and found that most organizations fail to take advantage of built-in discounts.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 20, 2024

C-suite leaders demand more cloud spending

Executives are pushing for post-optimization migrations, driving an expected upsurge in enterprise cloud spend this year, according to SaaS provider Wanclouds.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 15, 2024

Mainframes solidify hold on core enterprise systems

On-premises compute survived the rush to cloud and isn’t going away any time soon, according to Advanced.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 12, 2024

McDonald’s invests aggressively in technology

The fast food giant’s three-pronged plan aims to digitally transform customer experience, franchise operations and core systems, President and CEO Chris Kempczinski said Monday.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 6, 2024

Enterprise cloud spend jumped in Q4, nudged upward by AI

The power balance among AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud shifted slightly as infrastructure services saw the largest ever quarter-over-quarter market expansion recorded by Synergy Research Group.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 5, 2024

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

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