Cloud, AI workload surge pushes data center vacancies to historic lows

Building activity hit a record high during the first half of the year but power shortages elongated construction timelines, according to CBRE research.

By Matt Ashare • Updated Aug. 27, 2024

How automation and culture help curb cloud overspend

Business leaders struggling to rein in rising costs can turn to technical solutions, but overruns are also a people problem.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 21, 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

AMD to acquire ZT Systems for $4.9B as GPU race heats up

The move will bring an army of 1,000 cloud data center engineers into the chipmaker’s fight to challenge Nvidia’s AI infrastructure dominance.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 19, 2024

Alibaba expects AI to drive more than half of its cloud segment growth

“Demand for CPU-based traditional cloud computing is relatively limited,” CEO Eddie Wu said. “Most of the growth is now focused on GPU-based AI product development.”

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 16, 2024

SaaS vendors struggle with cloud bills, too

Three in 5 software vendors have not implemented a cloud cost management program, according to CloudZero.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 14, 2024

Tech chiefs gear up to spend bigger IT budgets in 2025

Despite growing enterprise appetite for technology and talent, cost optimization remains a priority, according to Forrester research.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 13, 2024

Hyperscalers gain decisive control of enterprise compute

Public cloud infrastructure eclipsed on-premise capacity as the number of massive commercial data centers topped 1,000, according to Synergy Research Group analysis.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 12, 2024

Big tech banks on AI boom as infrastructure spending heads for trillion-dollar mark

“While we're investing a significant amount in the AI space and in infrastructure, we would like to have more capacity than we already have today,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 5, 2024

AWS retains heavyweight title in cloud infrastructure

Despite the steady advance of Microsoft Azure, Amazon’s massive cloud division captured nearly 40% of the IaaS market last year, Gartner said.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 1, 2024

Microsoft spends billions on infrastructure to relieve Azure capacity constraints

The hyperscaler is working with third-party data centers to satisfy AI demand, CFO Amy Hood said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • July 31, 2024

AI consumption to drive enterprise cloud spending spree

The research firm expects rapid advancement in AI technologies to double the market’s size by 2028.

By Matt Ashare • July 30, 2024

Businesses elevate IT architecture to fight back tech sprawl

Enterprise architecture is leaving the penalty box as more companies add architect roles and stand up units, Forrester's Charles Betz said.

By Matt Ashare • Updated July 29, 2024

How Kyndryl’s ERP modernization led to an expanded SAP practice

The infrastructure services company is creating a migration playbook to guide others into the cloud, Kyndryl SVP and Global Practice Leader Michael Bradshaw said.

By Matt Ashare • July 29, 2024

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

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