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    IBM, Cognizant team up to tame rising enterprise cloud bills

    The two companies launched a FinOps Center of Excellence initiative to help ease hybrid and multicloud cost management.

    By Matt Ashare • Nov. 8, 2024
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    Cloud consumption surge strains even the largest hyperscalers

    “We have more demand than we could fulfill if we had even more capacity today,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Thursday. “Everyone today has less capacity than they have demand.”

    By Matt Ashare • Nov. 5, 2024
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    Hybrid cloud

    IT decision makers turn to hybrid cloud in search of security, flexibility and scale within enterprise infrastructure.

    By CIO Dive staff
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    FTC cloud market inquiry remains unresolved as US presidential race enters final stretch

    An ongoing investigation into hyperscaler competition initiated last year by the Federal Trade Commission has largely been overshadowed by AI regulation concerns.

    By Matt Ashare • Nov. 4, 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 • Nov. 4, 2024
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    AWS earnings round out a quarter of hyperscaler AI wins

    The company cited AI demand as a driver of enterprise cloud consumption, a clear trend among large vendors.

    By • Nov. 1, 2024
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    Microsoft runs into cloud constraints as Azure AI business booms

    Data centers “don’t get built overnight,” CEO Satya Nadella said Wednesday during the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 31, 2024
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    Google Cloud enjoys an AI-fueled growth spurt in Q3

    The hyperscaler saw cloud revenue grow 35% year over year to $11.4 billion in the third quarter.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 30, 2024
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    Executives worry over aging IT systems

    Despite ongoing modernization efforts, tech debt is still hindering mission-critical infrastructure, according to Kyndryl.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 29, 2024
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    5 highest-paying IT certifications in 2024

    An AWS certification earned the top position as employers and employees seek out credentials that verify security, data and cloud skills.

    By • Oct. 29, 2024
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    How to improve your cloud costs with network observability

    Network observability means putting teams in control of eliminating waste and optimizing cloud costs at the network level.

    Oct. 29, 2024
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    Citi taps Google Cloud for app migration, AI adoption

    The bank, as part of a broad modernization push, announced a multiyear partnership with the hyperscaler Monday.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 28, 2024
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    IBM leans into software as infrastructure revenue slides

    Since its 2019 acquisition of Red Hat, IBM has moved software closer to the center of its product portfolio.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 24, 2024
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    SAP leans on ‘supercharging’ Joule to accelerate ERP migrations

    The software giant said just one-fourth of its existing customers were shifting to cloud as segment revenues continued to mount.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 22, 2024
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    IBM doubles down on open models to help businesses customize AI

    The company added two Granite LLMs under Apache 2.0 licenses and introduced general-purpose coding enhancements to its watsonx assistant Monday.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 21, 2024
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    How the Indiana Pacers, Fever upped their data game in cloud

    “We took a sledgehammer to every wall and silo we had in the business,” Jared Chavez, data engineering and strategy manager at Pacers Sports & Entertainment, said.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 18, 2024
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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