Google Cloud revenue soars as AI drives billions in infrastructure spend

The tech giant reported $9.6 billion in cloud segment revenue on the quarter, a 28% increase year over year.

By Matt Ashare • April 26, 2024

IBM deepens multicloud solution portfolio with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition

“CIOs and developers are up against dramatic complexity in their tech strategies,” IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • April 25, 2024

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SAP leans on Business AI to spur ERP migrations

Enterprise customers accelerated their shift to cloud-based solutions this year, CEO Christian Klein said during a Monday earnings call.

By Matt Ashare • April 23, 2024

Coca-Cola pours $1.1B into Microsoft cloud, generative AI partnership

The beverage maker will test Azure OpenAI Service and Copilot 365 use cases across business functions, the companies said Tuesday.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 23, 2024

Manufacturing, auto leaders reach the cloud, but cost woes remain

While cloud delivers more capabilities today, its architecture, applications and funding model is more complex, Infosys' Global Head of Manufacturing Jasmeet Singh said.

By Matt Ashare • April 22, 2024

AI is a power-hungry beast: Who’s responsible for taming its energy appetite?

Sourcing the power to feed large language models is a growing concern as AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud embark on a data center building boom.

By Matt Ashare • April 22, 2024

United Airlines nears final mile of cloud migration

"You don’t save the cost of moving to the cloud until you shut the mainframe down,” CFO Mike Leskinen said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • April 18, 2024

Microsoft raises business application suite prices as Copilot permeates Dynamics 365

The tech giant updated terms on its CRM and ERP solutions for the first time in more than five years.

By Matt Ashare • April 16, 2024

JPMorgan Chase CEO wants more cloud to fuel AI, analytics

The banking giant aims to have 75% of its data and 70% of its applications in the cloud this year, Jamie Dimon said in a letter to shareholders.

By Matt Ashare • April 12, 2024

How the Boston Celtics used cloud to up their basketball analytics game

As big data rolled in, the 78-year-old NBA franchise migrated its tech stack from CTO Jay Wessland’s back office to AWS infrastructure.

By Matt Ashare • April 12, 2024

Amazon CEO peels back the layers of generative AI, its next pillar of growth

The company is working to clear the path to adoption for enterprises, from costs to chip supply issues, Andy Jassy said in a letter to shareholders.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 11, 2024

PwC rolls out generative AI tax solution, grows Google Cloud alliance

The professional services firm is also developing cloud-based security, compliance, legal and sustainability tools using Google's Vertex AI platform and Gemini models.

By Matt Ashare • April 10, 2024

Enterprise cloud costs spiral despite FinOps adoption, report finds

Organizations are overprovisioning storage and overconsuming bandwidth, according to a Forrester survey commissioned by Boomi.

By Matt Ashare • April 10, 2024

Google Cloud broadens its AI footprint, grows enterprise model portfolio

The tech giant is emphasizing its ability to give customers a variety of options throughout the generative AI lifecycle, from chips to business applications. 

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 9, 2024

Alibaba cuts cloud prices in global market play

The China-based hyperscaler reduced core service costs by up to 59% for workloads running in data centers outside its domestic market.

By Matt Ashare • April 8, 2024

IT hiring swings upward after 4-month slump

The addition of more than 200,000 tech positions across the economy marks a “welcome return to stability,” CompTIA Chief Research Officer Tim Herbert said.

By Matt Ashare • April 5, 2024

As mainframes turn 60, skill gaps threaten the enterprise workhorse

“Great technology doesn't really go away — it finds the niche that it was made for,” Forrester Senior Analyst Brent Ellis said.

By Matt Ashare • Updated April 12, 2024

Banking’s mainframe strategies shift as boards push for AI, cloud

Nearly two-thirds of global banking leaders plan to use generative AI to expedite cloud migrations, according to NTT Data.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 4, 2024

Why CIOs should rope tax into ERP modernizations

“The tax agenda is the most underserved corporate function by legacy ERP systems,” said David Nickson, principal in EY’s tax, technology and transformation practice.

By Matt Ashare • April 4, 2024

Cloudflare activates global GPU network, deploys Hugging Face integration

The cloud connectivity provider’s Workers AI edge solution is now generally available in more than 150 cities, the company announced Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • April 2, 2024

Microsoft decouples Teams from 365 globally

The move comes eight months after the software giant unbundled the two solutions in the European Economic Area and Switzerland to quell regulatory concerns.

By Matt Ashare • April 1, 2024

Hyperscaler data center expansions ignite AI server market boom

As LLM technologies proliferated, GPUs surpassed CPUs in revenue for the first time last year, according to Dell’Oro research.

By Matt Ashare • March 28, 2024

AWS relaxes Savings Plans restrictions

Customers can cancel cloud discount pricing packages within a week of purchase, the hyperscaler announced Monday.

By Matt Ashare • March 26, 2024

Hybrid makes a comeback as cloud strategies mature

Companies are diversifying IT environments, mixing and matching on-prem with public cloud and edge locations, according to Nutanix data.

By Matt Ashare • March 25, 2024

Banks balance cloud, cyber priorities with AI eagerness

More than two-thirds of financial firms have made meaningful progress on core modernization, according to Broadridge data.

By Matt Ashare • March 25, 2024