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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 -
Trendline
Digital transformation
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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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 -
Accenture sees companies struggling to scale AI
“Clients are coming to grips with the investments needed to truly implement AI across the enterprise and nearly all are finding it difficult to scale,” Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said Thursday.
By Matt Ashare • March 22, 2024 -
Nvidia lures all 4 major cloud hyperscalers with Blackwell ‘superchip’
AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Oracle will embed the chipmaker’s new GPU processors, which experts say is critical for AI infrastructure
By Matt Ashare • March 20, 2024 -
Nvidia, SAP unite to accelerate industry-focused generative AI
“SAP is sitting on a gold mine of enterprise data that can be transformed into custom generative AI agents,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Monday.
By Matt Ashare • March 19, 2024 -
3 ways CIOs can lead enterprise cost optimization
Companies are cautiously optimistic about the economy but still focused on controlling spending throughout the enterprise, Boston Consulting Group found.
By Matt Ashare • March 19, 2024 -
Microsoft joins AWS, Google Cloud on path to free data egress
Azure is the latest platform to lower the cost of switching cloud vendors.
By Matt Ashare • March 14, 2024 -
SAP beefs up Commerce Cloud in ongoing SaaS push
The enterprise software vendor added third-party payment integration capabilities to its e-commerce platform.
By Matt Ashare • March 14, 2024 -
Oracle surpasses major cloud threshold, pours $10B into data center expansions
“This quarter marks the first time our total cloud revenue is more than our total license support revenue," CEO Safra Catz said. "We have crossed over."
By Matt Ashare • March 12, 2024 -
Costs, not security, worry enterprise leaders most as cloud estates multiply
Optimizing spend surpassed security among enterprise concerns, Flexera’s annual survey found.
By Matt Ashare • March 12, 2024 -
Enterprises spend hundreds of hours a year on SaaS contracts
Organizations pour far more into SaaS than what shows up on the books once the dollar value of time spent on contracts is factored in, according to Vertice.
By Matt Ashare • March 7, 2024 -
SAP beefs up generative AI toolbox with new data integrations
As part of a broader shift to cloud, the ERP giant will enhance analytics and expand AI governance capabilities.
By Matt Ashare • March 6, 2024 -
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 -
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