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    AWS tightens up SaaS marketplace discount policy

    The hyperscaler will require third-party software to run on AWS infrastructure to qualify for commitment-based discounts starting May 1.

    By Feb. 13, 2025
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    SAP leans on Databricks to unify business analytics in the cloud

    The ERP giant rolled out its SAP Business Data Cloud platform along with four Joule copilot agents Thursday.

    By Feb. 13, 2025
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    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.

    By CIO Dive staff
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    Financial firms plan to increase software spending this year

    Despite buyer’s remorse, most organizations intend to boost investments in AI, IT management and security solutions this year, Capterra found.

    By Feb. 11, 2025
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    Generative AI fueled $60B boost in enterprise cloud spend last year

    “The technology might be expensive, but it is creating new services that are bringing in tens of billions of dollars for the cloud providers,” Synergy Research Group Chief Analyst John Dinsdale said.

    By Feb. 10, 2025
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    How Mondelēz laid the groundwork for a major digital overhaul

    The snack maker spent 18 months gearing up for transformation, which will include data center exits, workload migrations, generative AI exploration and an ERP upgrade.

    By Feb. 10, 2025
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    Amazon to boost AWS capacity with $100B investment

    The company will keep fueling infrastructure spend to support AI and cloud, amid what CEO Andy Jassy described as a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity.

    By Feb. 7, 2025
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    Google plans $75B investment to build out cloud AI capacity

    The majority of the spending will target technical infrastructure, including servers and data centers, CFO Anat Ashkenazi said Tuesday.

    By Feb. 5, 2025
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    Enterprises lean on container solutions to deploy generative AI

    The move to scale use cases revealed limitations in existing IT infrastructure, a Nutanix report found.

    By Feb. 5, 2025
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    Microsoft races to bring more cloud capacity online

    Enterprise AI workloads and OpenAI training consumed Azure resources last year. “We have been short power and space,” CFO Amy Hood said.

    By Jan. 30, 2025
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    How JPMorgan Chase’s infrastructure chief keeps the AI engine humming

    The bank is sourcing compute resources five to 10 years out, said Darrin Alves, CIO of infrastructure platforms.

    By Jan. 30, 2025
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    SAP unveils additional ERP transition support in ongoing cloud push

    The ERP giant will offer business continuity services through 2033 to customers facing complex migrations, the company said Tuesday.

    By Jan. 28, 2025
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    Tech execs grapple with budget sinkholes as AI drives up spend

    Unpredictable cloud bills, outdated software licenses and shadow IT frustrate FinOps efforts, according to Apptio.

    By Jan. 27, 2025
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    Banks fire up coding assistants as AI costs plummet

    “Generative AI is going to impact every function within a bank — every single part of the job,” Accenture Global Banking Lead Michael Abbott said.

    By Updated Jan. 27, 2025
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    Travelers’ modernization push yields efficiency, productivity gains

    The insurer more than doubled strategic tech investments since 2017 while reining in routine IT spending, CEO Alan Schnitzer said Wednesday.

    By Jan. 23, 2025
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    Google Cloud links poor credentials to nearly half of cloud-based attacks

    Cloud services with weak credentials were prime target for attackers, often resulting in lateral movement attempts, a Google Cloud report found.

    By Matt Kapko • Jan. 23, 2025
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    Capital One touts efficiency gains from long-haul IT makeover

    "Efficiency was never the objective function," CEO Richard Fairbank said Tuesday. "It was one of the many benefits of a tech transformation."

    By Jan. 22, 2025
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    PC shipments saw sluggish growth in 2024 despite AI hype

     IT leaders leveraged cloud for AI and took a wait-and-see approach to investing in souped up AI PCs, according to Gartner.

    By Jan. 17, 2025
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    Citi deploys AI coding tools to 30K developers in modernization push

    The bank poured nearly $12 billion into technology in 2024, executives said Wednesday.

    By Jan. 16, 2025
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    Is private cloud having a moment?

    Faced with mounting hyperscaler bills, proliferating data and compute-hungry generative AI, enterprises are weighing alternatives to public cloud.

    By Updated Jan. 16, 2025
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    IT teams plan to double down on hybrid cloud

    Instead of updating existing infrastructure, enterprises are designing entirely new strategies, Rackspace’s Srini Koushik said.

    By Jan. 15, 2025
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    Cloud, enterprise spend on data center gear spiked in 2024

    Hyperscaler investments dominated the market, but CIOs and their surrogates contributed to the spending surge, according to Synergy Research Group.

    By Jan. 10, 2025
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    SAP tailors cloud-based ERP for retail businesses

    The S/4HANA industry vertical centralizes operational data and integrates finance, procurement and merchandising.

    By Jan. 9, 2025
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    Microsoft plans to pour $80B into cloud data centers

    The tech giant will funnel more than half of the investments into U.S.-based facilities, Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said Friday.

    By Jan. 6, 2025
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    How Akamai regained control of its runaway cloud bills

    “What started organically had ballooned to hundreds of millions of dollars in spend,” Akamai CIO Kate Prouty said.

    By Updated Jan. 7, 2025
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    Opinion

    How enterprise cloud architects can drive adoption

    The complexity of cloud requires at least one accountable architectural leader to guide companies through transformation.

    By Ang Troy • Jan. 2, 2025