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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 Matt Ashare • Feb. 13, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Feb. 13, 2025 -
Explore the Trendline➔
Gorodenkoff via Getty ImagesTrendlineDigital 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.
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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 Matt Ashare • Feb. 11, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Feb. 10, 2025 -
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 Lindsey Wilkinson • Feb. 10, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Feb. 7, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Feb. 5, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Feb. 5, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Jan. 30, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Jan. 30, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Jan. 28, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Jan. 27, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Updated Jan. 27, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Jan. 23, 2025 -
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 -
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 Matt Ashare • Jan. 22, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Jan. 17, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Jan. 16, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Updated Jan. 16, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Jan. 15, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Jan. 10, 2025 -
SAP tailors cloud-based ERP for retail businesses
The S/4HANA industry vertical centralizes operational data and integrates finance, procurement and merchandising.
By Matt Ashare • Jan. 9, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Jan. 6, 2025 -
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 Matt Ashare • Updated Jan. 7, 2025 -
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