Google pours billions into AI, cyber and infrastructure expansion

The tech giant's cloud profits more than doubled year over year as it invested more than $17 billion, primarily in servers and data centers.

By Matt Ashare • April 25, 2025

SAP banks on cloud’s stability to navigate tariff turbulence

The ERP software giant is counting on longstanding hyperscaler partnerships to keep customer costs down as economic uncertainty looms.

By Matt Ashare • April 23, 2025

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Banks gear up to boost cybersecurity, cloud and data spending

In the race to scale generative AI capabilities, executives plan to increase foundational technology investments, according to Broadridge.

By Matt Ashare • April 21, 2025

Kyndryl rolls out SAP services suite inspired by its own migration story

The enterprise IT vendor is “living in the platform” after completing an 18-month ERP transition to S/4HANA.

By Matt Ashare • April 16, 2025

Massive cloud revenues drive hyperscaler building boom

Digital services revenues grew 13% in 2024, as cloud, SaaS and AI platform consumption fueled data center investments, according to Synergy Research Group.

By Matt Ashare • April 11, 2025

Google mobilizes partners to drive agentic AI across clouds

The hyperscaler rolled out an agent interoperability protocol that already has buy-in from Accenture, Deloitte and KPMG, Wednesday at Google Cloud Next.

By Matt Ashare • April 9, 2025

IBM powers up AI-ready z17 mainframe

The product line, designed to handle AI workloads, will begin shipping this summer.

By Matt Ashare • April 8, 2025

Where enterprises go wrong with cloud networking

While most companies have figured out how to migrate data without incurring huge fees, getting it back can be costly, according to Forrester.

By Matt Ashare • April 3, 2025

CIOs grapple with cloud cost paradox

Enterprises spend more than anticipated on the technology yet still report saving money, according to an Azul report.

By Matt Ashare • April 1, 2025

Kyndryl fires up Google Cloud analytics, AI to drive mainframe modernization

The partnership will help enterprises translate COBOL code to Java and migrate on-prem applications to cloud environments.

By Matt Ashare • March 27, 2025

Cloud data centers get bigger, denser amid AI building boom

AWS, Microsoft and Google accounted for 59% of all hyperscale compute capacity as the number of large facilities grew to more than 1,100 last year, Synergy Research Group said.

By Matt Ashare • March 21, 2025

Nvidia mobilizes IT partners to spread the AI gospel

The GPU giant expanded its alliances with Accenture, IBM, Oracle and other key technology providers at the annual GTC conference this week.

By Matt Ashare • March 20, 2025

Data center investments surged to $455B last year: report

Dell’Oro Group expects compute demand to drive a 30% increase in cloud infrastructure capital expenditures in 2025.

By Matt Ashare • March 20, 2025

Google acquisition of Wiz driven by enterprise embrace of multicloud

The combined security platform will expand Google’s reach across a range of major cloud environments.

By David Jones • March 19, 2025

Workload repatriations persist as CIOs improve cloud cost management

FinOps tracking has helped IT leaders identify applications better suited for on-prem environments, according to Flexera.

By Matt Ashare • March 19, 2025

Oracle pours $5B into UK cloud expansion

The investment will help the company build its global compute capacity and support AI development.

By Matt Ashare • March 17, 2025

Broadcom leans on its partners to drive VMware private cloud adoption

The company doubled down on its network of third-party service providers to steer enterprise customers to VMware Cloud Foundation.

By Matt Ashare • March 14, 2025

Oracle expands cloud coverage to over 100 regions

The company aims to double its capacity this year as demand for AI compute “continues to dramatically outstrip supply,” Oracle CEO Safra Catz said Monday.

By Matt Ashare • March 11, 2025

Kubernetes overspend undercuts cloud cost control efforts

Enterprises overprovisioned compute resources last year, Cast AI research showed. AI workloads compounded the problem.

By Matt Ashare • March 5, 2025

Microsoft assails UK markets watchdog, defends software licensing

The tech giant also castigated Google for “talking out of both sides of its corporate mouth” in response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s January report.

By Matt Ashare • March 3, 2025

Nvidia eyes everyday AI to sustain rapid revenue growth

The chipmaker saw quarterly revenues nearly double year over year to almost $40 billion as it ramped up production of the Blackwell GPU family.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 27, 2025

Data center vacancies hit historic lows despite capacity buildouts

Rental rates in Northern Virginia, Atlanta and other key markets increased 12.6% during the last half of 2024, according to CBRE research.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 26, 2025

Cloud data storage woes drive cost overruns, business delays

Nearly two-thirds of organizations exceeded their budgets last year as unanticipated usage and egress fees piled up, according to Wasabi Technologies.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 26, 2025

Enterprises lean on FinOps to rein in SaaS, AI overspend

“Companies understand they need to do FinOps,” FinOps Foundation Executive Director J.R. Storment said. “The big ones — the mature ones — have gotten good at it.”

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 24, 2025

Akamai chases billions in revenue as cloud business expands

The company grew its distributed network to 41 locations in 36 cities globally last year and plans to add container services to its platform, CEO Tom Leighton said Thursday.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 21, 2025