Hardware & Infrastructure
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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 Matt Ashare • Dec. 13, 2024 -
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 Matt Ashare • Dec. 10, 2024 -
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 Jen A. Miller • Dec. 10, 2024 -
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 Matt Ashare • Nov. 26, 2024 -
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 Matt Ashare • Nov. 26, 2024 -
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 Matt Ashare • Nov. 22, 2024 -
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 Matt Ashare • Nov. 21, 2024 -
Microsoft, Oracle to add 24 regions to multicloud alliance
The two providers have opened nine Oracle Database@Azure locations since 2023.
By Matt Ashare • Updated Nov. 21, 2024 -
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 Matt Ashare • Nov. 14, 2024 -
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 Matt Ashare • Nov. 8, 2024 -
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 Matt Ashare • Nov. 5, 2024 -
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 Matt Ashare • Oct. 31, 2024 -
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 Matt Ashare • Oct. 30, 2024 -
Executives worry over aging IT systems
Despite ongoing modernization efforts, tech debt is still hindering mission-critical infrastructure, according to Kyndryl.
By Matt Ashare • Oct. 29, 2024 -
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 Matt Ashare • Oct. 24, 2024 -
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 Matt Ashare • Oct. 23, 2024 -
AI adoption rush puts mainframes back in the spotlight
Coding assistants are, in turn, helping engineers refactor aging COBOL applications, according to IBM.
By Matt Ashare • Oct. 10, 2024 -
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 Matt Ashare • Updated Oct. 14, 2024 -
With AI market headed for trillion-dollar mark, chip shortages loom
Bain & Company expects AI workloads to grow by as much as 35% each year through 2027, accelerating GPU and upstream component consumption.
By Matt Ashare • Oct. 9, 2024 -
Enterprises cling to mainframe as cloud expands
Companies that lean on the enterprise workhorse are increasing capacity and purchasing new units, according to ISG research.
By Matt Ashare • Oct. 7, 2024 -
Data center spending skyrockets as cloud building rush accelerates
Hyperscaler infrastructure investments surged during the first half of the year and are expected to reach $400 billion in 2024, according to Dell’Oro Group research.
By Matt Ashare • Sept. 30, 2024 -
Most mainframe application rewrites fail the first time
“Almost everyone in the mainframe space recognizes that these are not toy workloads,” Rocket Software executive Phil Buckellew said.
By Matt Ashare • Sept. 24, 2024 -
Broadcom fires back at AT&T in legal battle over VMware support
The chipmaker said AT&T had time to choose an alternative and was planning to migrate off VMware anyway, according to court documents filed last week.
By Matt Ashare • Sept. 23, 2024 -
AWS sees customers repatriating workloads as cloud wars heat up
The largest hyperscaler provided U.K. regulators with examples of enterprises moving from cloud to on-prem environments in a July hearing.
By Matt Ashare • Sept. 19, 2024 -
Cloud AI building boom propels server, storage market to record highs
Hyperscaler hunger for compute capacity drove up prices for non-AI data center components during the second quarter, too, according to a Dell’Oro Group report.
By Matt Ashare • Sept. 18, 2024