Cloud: Page 10

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    Tech leaders struggle to rescue data trapped in mainframes

    Legacy systems are a goldmine for business insights but extraction remains a challenge, according to a Rocket Software report.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 16, 2024
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    Citi reaps rewards from modernization investments

    The bank retired 450 legacy applications this year and over 1,250 since 2022, CFO Mark Mason said Tuesday.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 15, 2024
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    Data overload thwarts digital transformation in banking

    Despite eagerness to scale AI capabilities, the financial sector remains mired in technical debt.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 11, 2024
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    AI adoption rush puts mainframes back in the spotlight

    Coding assistants are, in turn, helping engineers refactor aging COBOL applications, according to IBM.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 10, 2024
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    AI adoption drives ‘unmanageable’ spike in cloud costs

    IT and financial executives leverage FinOps to rein in software and infrastructure spending, according to a Tangoe report.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 7, 2024
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    Enterprises cling to mainframe as cloud expands

    Companies that lean on the enterprise workhorse are increasing capacity and purchasing new units, according to ISG research.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 7, 2024
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    Banking tech alliance drafts enterprise AI adoption guidelines

    The Fintech Open Source Foundation, which now includes Nvidia and Moody’s, outlined LLM risks and control measures to guide deployment in the industry.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 4, 2024
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    United Airlines leaned on real-time data to recover from the CrowdStrike outage

    The airline modernized its technology foundations with better customer experiences in mind. Then, a major software outage underscored the importance of live data.

    By Matt Ashare • Updated Oct. 3, 2024
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    Data center spending skyrockets as cloud building rush accelerates

    Hyperscaler infrastructure investments surged during the first half of the year and are expected to reach $400 billion in 2024, according to Dell’Oro Group research.

    By Matt Ashare • Sept. 30, 2024
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    Enterprises funnel IT spend into AI and data, Accenture says

    Executives are cutting resources elsewhere in IT to carry out AI and data investments, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said Thursday.

    By Matt Ashare • Sept. 26, 2024
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    Google accuses Microsoft of stifling cloud competition in EU complaint

    Microsoft's licensing terms restrict European customers from migrating workloads to competing platforms, Google told the European Commission.

    By Matt Ashare • Sept. 25, 2024
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    Most mainframe application rewrites fail the first time

    “Almost everyone in the mainframe space recognizes that these are not toy workloads,” Rocket Software executive Phil Buckellew said.

    By Matt Ashare • Sept. 24, 2024
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    Broadcom fires back at AT&T in legal battle over VMware support

    The chipmaker said AT&T had time to choose an alternative and was planning to migrate off VMware anyway, according to court documents filed last week.

    By Matt Ashare • Sept. 23, 2024
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    Cloud paves the way for AI adoption

    Enterprises are fueling cloud investments ahead of AI deployment, showing a deep connection between the two technologies.

    By Matt Ashare • Sept. 20, 2024
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    AWS sees customers repatriating workloads as cloud wars heat up

    The largest hyperscaler provided U.K. regulators with examples of enterprises moving from cloud to on-prem environments in a July hearing.

    By Matt Ashare • Sept. 19, 2024
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    Cloud AI building boom propels server, storage market to record highs

    Hyperscaler hunger for compute capacity drove up prices for non-AI data center components during the second quarter, too, according to a Dell’Oro Group report.

    By Matt Ashare • Sept. 18, 2024
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    An unlikely hero is running generative AI workloads: the mainframe

    AI requires quality data and more often than not, the most important enterprise data lives in mainframes, experts said.

    By Matt Ashare • Sept. 17, 2024
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    How PepsiCo capped cloud overspend

    “From a FinOps perspective, you're never done — no matter how great you think you are, there’s more to do tomorrow,” PepsiCo IT Senior Director Kimberly Floss said.

    By Matt Ashare • Sept. 17, 2024
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    Bridging the gap: The first enterprise-grade linux solution for the cloud-to-edge continuum

    eLxr Pro offers the flexibility, support and innovation necessary to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

    By Amit Ronen, Chief Customer Offer, Wind River • Sept. 17, 2024
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    Rising demand for Azure skills signals growth in Microsoft cloud

    The gap between the number of jobs requiring skills specific to the two largest hyperscalers is shrinking, according to Revelio Labs data.

    By Matt Ashare • Sept. 13, 2024
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    AWS plans UK cloud expansion, pours $10B more into AI infrastructure

    Amazon’s cloud division will now invest more than $14 billion in the region through 2028, the company said Wednesday.

    By Matt Ashare • Sept. 11, 2024
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    Oracle leans on private cloud to fortify enterprise security, data sovereignty

    “We expect that private clouds will greatly outnumber public clouds,” Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison said Monday.

    By Matt Ashare • Sept. 10, 2024
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    Oracle cements multicloud integration with AWS, Google alliances

    Oracle deployed data services running on OCI servers in AWS and Google Cloud data centers, the company announced Monday.

    By Matt Ashare • Sept. 9, 2024
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    Gaining control over sky-high cloud costs

    Discover how Akamai slashed its public cloud costs by 40% through innovative distributed cloud strategies, setting a new standard for cloud efficiency and performance.

    Sept. 9, 2024
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    VMware raises Broadcom’s software profile, but chips remain core business

    The company expects networking and semiconductor hardware demand to drive AI revenues to $12 billion this year, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said.

    By Matt Ashare • Sept. 6, 2024