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

From data to insights: A non-technical intro to data discovery

Businesses today are inundated with data. From customer interactions to operational performance, it can often feel like information overload.

March 25, 2024

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Data in Action

Enterprise AI outcomes depend heavily on the health of datasets on hand —  and the talent that manages them.

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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

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

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

Nvidia, HP give data science a GPU boost

The two tech companies will infuse enterprise AI workstations with GPU-powered data processing and model building software.

By Matt Ashare • March 8, 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

Too much data: CIOs jostle for control of swelling IT estates

Cloud-based software stacks yield unmanageable levels of data, with signs of more complexity ahead, according to a Dynatrace report.

By Roberto Torres • 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

EY, Dell tackle industry-tailored edge computing

The two companies launched an initiative to create industry-specific capabilities through integrations of the EY.ai and Dell NativeEdge software platforms.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 7, 2024

Companies struggle to connect data to customer experience

Most businesses are struggling to integrate data insights into their user experiences, according to a Salesforce survey.

By Bryan Wassel • Jan. 30, 2024

IT teams grapple with AI data complexity

Skills gaps, compliance issues and siloed data slow enterprise modernization as generative AI adoption puts infrastructure to the test.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 23, 2024

Google Cloud pulls back on egress fees in multicloud play

The hyperscaler removed charges for customers migrating data to another cloud provider or on-prem.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 12, 2024

CompTIA bolsters training portfolio, adds AI fundamentals and AWS pro certs

The rollout will include new cybersecurity, data science and full-stack credentials and refresh five existing certification programs.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 3, 2024

Enterprises plan to boost reliance on distributed cloud

Data-hungry LLMs are pushing workloads to the edge as IT leaders seek to bring data and infrastructure closer together.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 2, 2024

Accenture’s AI business booms as enterprises shift to deployment mode

“2023 was a year of generative AI experimentation,” CEO Julie Sweet said Tuesday. “We are now focusing on helping our clients in 2024 realize value at scale.”

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 19, 2023

Software spend to rebound in 2024 as ERP, database move to SaaS

After two years of flat revenue growth, Forrester expects software vendors to see incremental upticks going forward.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 13, 2023

Oracle embarks on data center building spree

The company had “billions of dollars more in contracted demand than we currently can supply," CTO Larry Ellison said Monday.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 12, 2023

Cloudflare doubles down on inference workloads

CEO Matthew Prince sent technicians with “suitcases full of GPUs” around the world with the goal of deploying the chips in 100 cities by the end of the year.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 5, 2023

For Arvest Bank, wholesale cloud modernization had to start small

With an end-to-end IT assessment in place, Chief Transformation and Operations Officer Laura Merling's team rolled out pre-migration modernizations to make way for cloud.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 5, 2023

Snowflake reports consumption boom as data rushes to cloud

“Interest in AI is also driving interest in data strategy, which then has a knock-on effect on consumption,” Chairman and CEO Frank Slootman said during the data cloud company's Q3 earnings call.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 1, 2023

Salesforce revenue boost driven by cloud ‘cocktail’

As price hikes kicked in, the leading CRM turned to its hyperscale Data Cloud and Mulesoft platform to expand the top end of its enterprise customer base.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 30, 2023

AWS is still trying to cut cloud costs

Just weeks after joining the FinOps Foundation, the leading hyperscaler unveiled infrastructure and service enhancements to help customers optimize data, spending and compute.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 29, 2023