Why Capital One’s software division created its own data security tool

When the bank couldn’t find a commercially available tokenization software tool, it tapped its engineering team to build one.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 4, 2025

Amazon leans on AWS’ size, security as Q2 cloud market nears $100B

“We have a meaningfully larger business in the AWS segment than others,” CEO Andy Jassy said during the company’s Q2 2025 earnings call Thursday.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 1, 2025

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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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Microsoft rebuked by UK regulators as cloud revenues soar

Azure revenue increased 34% year over year to more than $75 billion in the last year, despite an ongoing capacity crunch, executives said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • July 31, 2025

PNC embeds commercial finance platform in Oracle Fusion ERP

The bank’s cloud-based Pinacle Connect treasury management system automates transaction processes and breaks down data silos, the two companies said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • July 29, 2025

Google Cloud jacks up CapEx to build more cloud

The hyperscaler boosted its AI infrastructure investment plan for the year by 13% to $85 billion, executives said during a Wednesday earnings call.

By Matt Ashare • July 24, 2025

SAP braces for IT spending lull as tariff woes intensify

The Germany-based ERP giant saw deal cycles elongate as customers implemented strict cost controls, CEO Christian Klein said during a Tuesday earnings call.

By Matt Ashare • July 23, 2025

Businesses tighten IT spending plans amid Trump tariff threats

Shifts in U.S. trade policy pushed companies into a wait-and-see mode, S&P Global Market Intelligence Research Analyst Malav Parekh said.

By Matt Ashare • July 23, 2025

Java licensing snafus cost millions, drive developers to open source

More than 1 in 4 organizations spend between $100,000 and $500,000 in audit penalties annually, according to a joint study by Azul and the ITAM Forum.

By Matt Ashare • July 21, 2025

Banks diversify cloud portfolios to bolster resilience

Financial firms are leaning on cloud to improve customer service and power long-term growth, London Stock Exchange Group found.

By Matt Ashare • July 18, 2025

State Street CTO moves to CIO role

EVP Andrew Zitney shifted into the role this week, filling a vacancy that opened when Brian Franz took a tech leadership position with Estée Lauder in April.

By Matt Ashare • July 17, 2025

Google Cloud pours more than $25B into domestic AI infrastructure

The investment will expand the hyperscaler’s data center footprint across the largest U.S. power grid in the next two years.

By Matt Ashare • July 15, 2025

How CIOs can rebuild IT operating models for the AI era

Thriving in the AI era requires intentional changes to workforce strategies, team skills and vendor relationships.

By Cam Cross • July 14, 2025

SaaS audit costs climb as tech stack visibility slides

Nearly half of organizations report spending $1 million or more on software vendor reviews in the last three years, Flexera found.

By Matt Ashare • July 2, 2025

Server sales surged in Q1, driven by GPU demand

The market more than doubled during the first three months of the year, marking the highest quarterly growth rate in 28 years.

By Matt Ashare • July 1, 2025

Mondelēz demystifies AI-powered coding gains

The snack maker is using Amazon Q to reduce development time, address resource constraints and speed up its third wave of cloud migrations.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • June 27, 2025

Hyperscaler buildouts eclipse enterprise data center expansions

Only a little more than one-third of compute capacity remains on premises despite a recent boost from GPU installs, Synergy Research Group found.

By Matt Ashare • June 26, 2025

Banking industry, big tech unite to forge AI adoption guidelines

Citi and Morgan Stanley joined forces with AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud to set open-source controls for secure AI adoption in the financial industry.

By Matt Ashare • June 24, 2025

Data center spending soared amid rising GPU demand in Q1

AI infrastructure buildouts drove a 53% increase in capital expenditures, despite some project cancellations and tariff concerns, Dell’Oro Group said.

By Matt Ashare • June 20, 2025

Broadcom deploys souped up VMware private cloud

The company made its VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 bundle generally available to customers Tuesday after two months of public beta pre-release.

By Matt Ashare • June 17, 2025

Databricks activates agent-building toolkit, deepens hyperscaler alliances

The company expanded its Microsoft Azure AI integrations and deployed Google’s Gemini models as it continued to forge agentic partnerships.

By Matt Ashare • June 16, 2025

Oracle waves off cloud customers as its data center investments balloon

“We are putting out as much capacity as we possibly can,” CEO Safra Catz said during a Wednesday earnings call.

By Matt Ashare • June 12, 2025

Broadcom takes a private cloud victory lap as it axes bottom-tier VMware partners

The tech giant has converted 87% of its 10,000 largest customers to the VMware Cloud Foundation bundle, CEO Hock Tan said during a Thursday earnings call.

By Matt Ashare • June 6, 2025

FinOps gets a hyperscaler boost as AI, SaaS costs come into FOCUS

AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Oracle expanded their support for the FinOps Foundation’s ongoing battle to tame enterprise IT spending.

By Matt Ashare • June 5, 2025

HPE gains enterprise traction with private cloud, AI-powered servers

One-third of the company’s AI orders were driven by enterprise-based GPU server purchases, executives said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • June 4, 2025

Snowflake retools data cloud to fuel AI agents, expand integrations

The company rolled out an expansive portfolio of product updates and acquired PostgreSQL startup Crunchy Data this week.

By Matt Ashare • June 3, 2025