IBM sees software sales soar as tech spend stabilizes

The acquisition of Apptio and Software AG’s StreamSets and webMethods hybrid cloud solutions helped drive the gains, CFO James Kavanaugh said Thursday.

By Matt Ashare • July 25, 2024

SAP bets on enterprise architecture skills to boost cloud ERP migration

“The hiring machine is on,” CEO Christian Klein said, as the ERP giant promised each RISE with SAP customer a dedicated technical migration assistant.

By Matt Ashare • July 24, 2024

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The allure and limitations of Agile tools

Agile tools streamline workflows and enhance productivity, but they have limitations, too.

By Dave Ross, Chief Agile Evangelist at Miro • July 22, 2024

As IT costs mount, CIOs want hybrid cloud with better connectivity

Colocation data centers bridge the gap between cloud and on-prem but bring interoperability challenges, according to a CoreSite report.

By Matt Ashare • July 19, 2024

Inside USAA’s 3-year push to clean up a massive data estate

Chief Data and Analytics Officer Ramnik Bajaj set firm migration deadlines for the company’s move to a centralized Snowflake environment.

By Matt Ashare • July 17, 2024

Data center building boom fuels global IT spend growth

As hyperscalers pour billions into infrastructure, enterprises are investing in generative AI capabilities, driving up tech spending across categories.

By Matt Ashare • July 17, 2024

SAP soups up cloud migration package with expense tracking and sales tools

The enterprise software provider added Sales Cloud and Concur Expense to the GROW with SAP migration incentive program Monday.

By Matt Ashare • July 15, 2024

Microsoft brokers deal with European cloud lobby, dodges EU antitrust probe

The cloud and software giant has nine months to resolve software licensing issues and roll out an Azure integration solution under the agreement terms.

By Matt Ashare • July 10, 2024

Capital One leans on its cloud maturity to support AI adoption

“It's difficult to imagine doing AI at scale without a solid foundation of experience using and scaling applications in cloud,” the bank’s SVP and Head of AI Product Aparna Sinha said.

By Matt Ashare • July 10, 2024

Data center crunch drives up rental costs as vacancy rates plummet

In the shadow of resource-hungry hyperscaler infrastructure projects, private data center space is getting hard to come by in congested cloud regions. 

By Matt Ashare • July 8, 2024

Enterprises near migration bottleneck as SAP deadlines approach

More than half of the ERP giant’s customers risk running out of maintenance support by 2027, according to an analysis by Basis CTO David Lees.

By Matt Ashare • July 8, 2024

Kyndryl bolsters — and reshuffles — technology leadership team

Kim Basile succeeds CIO Michael Bradshaw, the executive who guided the company’s post-IBM transformation.

By Matt Ashare • July 2, 2024

Enterprise cloud storage spend to double by 2028 as AI ramps up

AWS dominated the segment with a 30% share of the nearly $60 billion market last year, according to Omdia’s analysis.

By Matt Ashare • June 28, 2024

AWS joins Microsoft, Google Cloud in open-source push for finance tech

The Fintech Open Source Foundation also added chipmaker Intel, infrastructure provider DTCC and four other companies to its alliance of banks and tech providers.

By Matt Ashare • June 27, 2024

AWS flexes data center muscles as AI workloads increase cloud use

The battle for AI workloads is intensifying and, to keep its lead, Amazon's cloud division is investing more than $50 billion in U.S. infrastructure.

By Matt Ashare • June 26, 2024

Microsoft runs afoul of EU antitrust rules, authorities say

Although the software company decoupled Teams from its SaaS-based productivity suite, the European Commission deemed the move insufficient to restore competition.

By Matt Ashare • June 25, 2024

Cloud security becoming top priority for companies worldwide

The sensitivity of data placed in the cloud and application sprawl are two factors complicating security, Thales found.

By David Jones • June 25, 2024

VMware doubles down on private cloud, pushes back against post-Broadcom flak

After a portfolio reassessment, the software company narrowed its focus to “the minimal critical products” confined to a “single, consistent platform,” VMware VP Prashanth Shenoy said.

By Matt Ashare • June 25, 2024

How the NHL modernized its draft app in the cloud

“We didn’t copy one single bit of code,” the league’s SVP of Technology Grant Nodine said. “We reimagined the database, too.”

By Matt Ashare • Updated June 25, 2024

FinOps targets SaaS as software audit costs spike

The number of organizations that paid $10 million-plus on vendor audits over the last three years nearly doubled since 2023, according to Flexera.

By Matt Ashare • June 17, 2024

AWS expands cloud-based AI training portfolio, adds 2 pro certifications

The new learning programs focus on technical and non-technical proficiencies, business use cases and prompt engineering.

By Matt Ashare • June 14, 2024

Snowflake-linked attacks are testing the cloud’s shared responsibility status quo

Assigning responsibility for missing security controls is tricky. The burden is collective but cloud providers need to raise minimum standards, experts say.

By Matt Kapko • June 14, 2024

IBM’s Apptio unit tests AI tool trained to tackle rising IT costs

The effort comes as finance leaders grapple with runaway cloud expenses.

By Alexei Alexis • June 13, 2024

Oracle inks Google alliance in push toward multicloud future

The technology company also extended its Microsoft partnership to provide OpenAI with infrastructure services, Oracle CEO Safra Catz said during a Tuesday earnings call.

By Matt Ashare • June 12, 2024

Microsoft, playing the long game, invests billions globally to expand Azure empire

“The pressure is on — this is no longer the experimental phase of the cloud,” Alistair Speirs, director of Azure global infrastructure, said.

By Matt Ashare • June 10, 2024