Hardware & Infrastructure

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    CIOs brace for price hikes this year as IT budgets grow

    Gartner expects global tech spend to increase nearly 10% globally to more than $5.6 trillion in 2025, due largely to generative AI hardware upgrades.

    By • Jan. 21, 2025
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    PC shipments saw sluggish growth in 2024 despite AI hype

     IT leaders leveraged cloud for AI and took a wait-and-see approach to investing in souped up AI PCs, according to Gartner.

    By • Jan. 17, 2025
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    Is private cloud having a moment?

    Faced with mounting hyperscaler bills, proliferating data and compute-hungry generative AI, enterprises are weighing alternatives to public cloud.

    By • Updated Jan. 16, 2025
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    IT teams plan to double down on hybrid cloud

    Instead of updating existing infrastructure, enterprises are designing entirely new strategies, Rackspace’s Srini Koushik said.

    By • Jan. 15, 2025
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    Cloud, enterprise spend on data center gear spiked in 2024

    Hyperscaler investments dominated the market, but CIOs and their surrogates contributed to the spending surge, according to Synergy Research Group.

    By • Jan. 10, 2025
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    Nvidia enters the agentic AI fray with Llama Nemotron LLMs

    Accenture plans to launch more than 100 industry-specific solutions using the chipmaker’s AI-powered developer tools, the companies said Monday.

    By • Jan. 7, 2025
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    Microsoft plans to pour $80B into cloud data centers

    The tech giant will funnel more than half of the investments into U.S.-based facilities, Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said Friday.

    By • Jan. 6, 2025
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    Broadcom nears total VMware integration as chip business booms

    The tech giant nearly tripled its infrastructure software revenues to $21.5 billion in the year since it acquired the virtualization solution provider.

    By • Dec. 13, 2024
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    Oracle reaps benefits of infrastructure investments as AI usage spikes

    The company saw quarterly cloud revenues near $6 billion, driven in part by a major year-over-year increase in GPU consumption.

    By • Dec. 10, 2024
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    How CIOs can prepare for Trump’s tariffs plan

    The president-elect has proposed tariffs on imported goods, stoking concerns about higher costs for electronics.

    By • Dec. 10, 2024
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    Big tech on track to pour more than $180B into data centers this year

    Amazon, Google and Microsoft accounted for more than three-quarters of infrastructure capital expenditures in Q3 2024, according to Dell’Oro Group.

    By • Nov. 26, 2024
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    Deep Dive

    VMware’s first contentious year under Broadcom drives customers to weigh other options

    The chipmaker consolidated the ubiquitous virtualization product suite into one big private cloud platform, leaving customers with a difficult business decision.

    By • Nov. 26, 2024
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    Broadcom, AT&T reach settlement in VMware legal dispute

    The two companies informed the New York State Supreme Court of the agreement Thursday and were granted time to finalize details.

    By • Nov. 22, 2024
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    Nvidia nearly doubles quarterly revenues as AI gold rush continues

    The chipmaker also saw net income rise by more than 100% despite supply chain constraints.

    By • Nov. 21, 2024
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    Microsoft, Oracle to add 24 regions to multicloud alliance

    The two providers have opened nine Oracle Database@Azure locations since 2023.

    By • Updated Nov. 21, 2024
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    Federal watchdog flags restrictive licensing practices in cloud

    The U.S. Government Accountability Office uncovered vendor management processes across several federal agencies that led to cost overruns.

    By • Nov. 14, 2024
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    IBM, Cognizant team up to tame rising enterprise cloud bills

    The two companies launched a FinOps Center of Excellence initiative to help ease hybrid and multicloud cost management.

    By • Nov. 8, 2024
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    Cloud consumption surge strains even the largest hyperscalers

    “We have more demand than we could fulfill if we had even more capacity today,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Thursday. “Everyone today has less capacity than they have demand.”

    By • Nov. 5, 2024
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    Microsoft runs into cloud constraints as Azure AI business booms

    Data centers “don’t get built overnight,” CEO Satya Nadella said Wednesday during the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call.

    By • Oct. 31, 2024
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    Google Cloud enjoys an AI-fueled growth spurt in Q3

    The hyperscaler saw cloud revenue grow 35% year over year to $11.4 billion in the third quarter.

    By • Oct. 30, 2024
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    Executives worry over aging IT systems

    Despite ongoing modernization efforts, tech debt is still hindering mission-critical infrastructure, according to Kyndryl.

    By • Oct. 29, 2024
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    IBM leans into software as infrastructure revenue slides

    Since its 2019 acquisition of Red Hat, IBM has moved software closer to the center of its product portfolio.

    By • Oct. 24, 2024
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    IT spend mounts as CIOs build out enterprise AI capacity

    The analyst firm expects tech spending to reach $5.74 trillion next year, driven in part by exponential growth in server sales.

    By • Oct. 23, 2024
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    AI adoption rush puts mainframes back in the spotlight

    Coding assistants are, in turn, helping engineers refactor aging COBOL applications, according to IBM.

    By • Oct. 10, 2024
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    CrowdStrike outage: Fallout and recovery

    How HP dodged the July CrowdStrike outage

    After catching early signs of the problem, the company used its IT management tool to install a remediating patch in its global fleet of 79,000 PCs.

    By • Updated Oct. 14, 2024