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

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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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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

Cloudflare doubles down on inference workloads

CEO Matthew Prince sent technicians with “suitcases full of GPUs” around the world with the goal of deploying the chips in 100 cities by the end of the year.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 5, 2023

For Arvest Bank, wholesale cloud modernization had to start small

With an end-to-end IT assessment in place, Chief Transformation and Operations Officer Laura Merling's team rolled out pre-migration modernizations to make way for cloud.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 5, 2023

Snowflake reports consumption boom as data rushes to cloud

“Interest in AI is also driving interest in data strategy, which then has a knock-on effect on consumption,” Chairman and CEO Frank Slootman said during the data cloud company's Q3 earnings call.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 1, 2023

Salesforce revenue boost driven by cloud ‘cocktail’

As price hikes kicked in, the leading CRM turned to its hyperscale Data Cloud and Mulesoft platform to expand the top end of its enterprise customer base.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 30, 2023

AWS is still trying to cut cloud costs

Just weeks after joining the FinOps Foundation, the leading hyperscaler unveiled infrastructure and service enhancements to help customers optimize data, spending and compute.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 29, 2023

AWS enters enterprise chatbot fray with Q

In the wake of OpenAI’s leadership crisis, the hyperscaler also doubled down on a multimodel AI strategy and deepened its Anthropic alliance.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 28, 2023

MSPs ready to support SEC cyber disclosure requirements

With a line of sight on security operations, MSPs hold keys to materiality determinations and annual 10-K reports.

By Suman Bhattacharyya • Nov. 28, 2023

Nvidia revenues soar amid hyperscaler AI rush

The chipmaker's products underpin the AI services at the center of an enterprise adoption wave, but research and development are still underway.

By Matt Ashare • Updated Feb. 22, 2024

AWS expands AI training portfolio

The cloud provider added eight training courses for upskilling in prompt engineering, building LLMs and other AI proficiencies.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 27, 2023

Cloud security myths can leave SMBs exposed

AWS identified three cyber misconceptions that hinder small- and medium-sized businesses as they migrate workloads.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 22, 2023

FTC extends cloud competition scrutiny to generative AI

“Cloud computing is a key input for artificial intelligence technologies,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said. 

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 20, 2023