Snowflake launches Arctic, an LLM focused on transparency

The data cloud company peeled back the curtain on the open-source model’s architecture and released a “cookbook” of technical specifications.

By Matt Ashare • April 24, 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

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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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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

How 5 household brands are moving beyond generative AI hype

Procter & Gamble, General Mills, L’Oréal, Kraft Heinz and Unilever are beginning their adoption journeys by assessing data processes, rolling out tools and training workers.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 17, 2024

ChatGPT grabs the shadow IT crown: report

Generative AI tools emerged as the latest villain in the enterprise battle to curb SaaS bloat and rationalize software portfolios, Productiv analysis found.

By Matt Ashare • April 16, 2024

Software purges: How CIOs can declutter the software stack

A “hairball” of a tech stack can create a world of problems, one expert said. Disjointed technology can make work harder and waste employee time and financial resources. 

By Jen A. Miller • April 15, 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

Generative AI’s ROI is a work in progress

Gartner analysts place the technology’s models and tools near the beginning of its hype cycle, leaving ample room for growth.

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

ERP transition woes batter Lamb Weston’s financial performance

Lower fulfillment rates hurt net sales by $135 million as the company experienced inventory visibility challenges.

By Max Garland • 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

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

Generative AI unlocks the door to unstructured enterprise data

“Getting all this data to the right place at the right moment – it’s not an easy task,” Alon Amit, VP of product, analytics, AI and data at Intuit, said during a CIO Dive panel.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 2, 2024

4 executive views from AI’s data underbelly

American Honda, Intuit, Cushman & Wakefield and Accenture tech chiefs shared insights on the systems that are fueling LLM innovations.

By Lindsey Wilkinson , Matt Ashare • April 1, 2024

SMBs aren’t scared of generative AI, survey finds

Nearly 9 in 10 small business owners are not concerned about the negative consequences associated with using the technology for work, GoDaddy found.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • March 29, 2024

Santander hires ex-Marcus chief to lead US digital transformation

Swati Bhatia becomes the second Goldman consumer-banking vet to find a landing spot in just over a week.

By Dan Ennis • March 28, 2024

American Honda gives data a promotion on the road to AI

The automotive company is pursuing an AI-for-all strategy, VP of IT Bob Brizendine said on a CIO Dive panel.

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

Threat groups hit enterprise software, network infrastructure hard in 2023

Actively exploited high-risk vulnerabilities rose threefold in enterprise software and network infrastructure, according to Recorded Future.

By Matt Kapko • March 25, 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

CIOs remain senior members of C-suite as responsibilities grow

Among Fortune 100 companies, healthcare CIOs were the oldest of the group, while financial services CIOs were the youngest.

By Suman Bhattacharyya • March 22, 2024