Oracle unveils secure cloud solution in bid for DoD contracts

The new infrastructure services are designed to ease critical workload migrations and comply with defense information systems security requirements.

By Matt Ashare • July 31, 2023

FINOS moves to rationalize financial industry cloud controls

Citi, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are among the companies participating in the Fintech Open Source Foundation project, which will introduce a framework this year.

By Matt Ashare • July 28, 2023

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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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AWS builds out generative AI marketplace, adds 4 foundational models

The hyperscaler, growing a nascent generative AI marketplace through Bedrock, now features models from Anthropic, Stability AI and Cohere.

By Matt Ashare • July 27, 2023

Microsoft leans on Azure, AI as cloud business grows

The tech company’s public cloud platform accounted for more than half of its annual cloud revenue in FY2023, CEO Satya Nadella said.

By Matt Ashare • July 26, 2023

Google Cloud extends profitability run, executives hype AI-optimized infrastructure

Alphabet’s cloud division delivered its second-consecutive quarter of positive income gains, even as customers continued to streamline their spend.

By Matt Ashare • July 26, 2023

Data, instinct drive executive decision-making

How CIOs make decisions may matter as much as the outcome when weighing the advantages and risks of new technologies.

By Matt Ashare • July 25, 2023

Capital One bets on tech engine for card and retail banking growth

“Our modern technology capabilities are generating an expanding set of opportunities across our business,” CEO Richard Fairbank said Thursday.

By Matt Ashare • July 21, 2023

IBM sees Red Hat growth as model for its AI business

The tech company is banking on enterprise adoption of its newly introduced watsonx platform to advance its hybrid cloud strategy.

By Matt Ashare • July 20, 2023

Hyperscalers bet on costly new data centers to capture growing market

As cloud becomes ubiquitous, AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud are competing to expand their regional reach and localize services.

By Matt Ashare • July 14, 2023

On-prem data centers retain a shrinking foothold as cloud’s shadow looms

While capacity steadily migrates to massive CSPs, more than one-third of worldwide data and compute remains on-prem.

By Matt Ashare • July 14, 2023

Unleashing the power of the cloud, AI and data analytics: The secret sauce for strategic success

Explore three strategies to activate the combined power of the cloud, AI and data analytics for transformative success.

By Dwayne Allen, Senior Vice President, Solution Innovation and Chief Technology Officer, Unisys • July 10, 2023

Unilever elevates North America CIO to global VP role

The global consumer goods giant reconfigured its tech leadership, moving Alessandro Ventura from its U.S.-based operation to its London headquarters.

By Matt Ashare • July 5, 2023

Snowflake, Nvidia target data behind generative AI in new partnership

The deal will let businesses use proprietary data to build generative AI-powered chatbots, search and summarization services within the Nvidia NeMo platform.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • June 27, 2023

IBM to acquire Apptio in $4.6B deal

The purchase highlights a persistent customer interest in optimizing cloud costs, and opens upselling opportunities for IBM's hybrid cloud playbook.

By Roberto Torres • June 26, 2023

Cloud tensions flare as Google accuses Microsoft of vendor lock-in

The three largest hyperscalers answered a Federal Trade Commission call for public comment, heightening industry scrutiny of Microsoft’s competitive practices.

By Matt Ashare • June 26, 2023

AWS pledges $100M to launch generative AI innovation center

The new hub will connect customers with in-house experts in the emerging technology, the company said.

By Roberto Torres • June 22, 2023

Google takes a swing at Microsoft, alleges anticompetitive cloud practices: report

The Federal Trade Commission stands at the center of an ongoing hyperscaler battle over cloud market dominance, as a skirmish erupts between the second and third largest providers.

By Matt Ashare • June 21, 2023

Oracle deploys EU sovereign cloud solution in bid to satisfy regulators

New OCI data centers in Germany and Spain aim to satisfy stringent European data privacy and security regulations as part of the company’s broader distributed cloud strategy.

By Matt Ashare • June 21, 2023

SaaS sprawl muddies software contracts, risks compliance gaps

Cloud-based deployments multiply the challenges of managing enterprise IT assets, as penalties for noncompliance rise.

By Matt Ashare • June 20, 2023

XPO, Travelers make cloud work for the business

One size does not fit all in cloud. Tech leaders have specific demands and tailor cloud to the needs of their businesses.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • June 20, 2023

Banks are leveraging modern cloud security tools to mitigate human error

The financial sector’s cloud workloads more than doubled from 2021 to 2022. What does this mean for the industry?

By Brandon Mavleos • June 20, 2023

At M&T Bank, modernization and talent strategies intersect in the cloud

Outsourcing some of the company’s IT has allowed CIO Mike Wisler to move in-house engineers “up the tech stack,” he said, freeing talent to work on more complex tasks. 

By Matt Ashare • June 16, 2023

Oracle bucks revenue trend as cloud business booms

End-to-end solutions for high tech, healthcare, financial services, retail, hospitality and other industries is driving the company's revenue growth.

By Matt Ashare • June 13, 2023

As software migrates to cloud, IT spending waste follows

Enterprise technology asset managers are shifting their focus from desktops and data centers to containers and cloud, as SaaS solutions proliferate.

By Matt Ashare • June 13, 2023

Hyperscalers seen as key tool in shifting balance of cyber risk

The acting national cyber director says more oversight may be necessary, but a resilient cloud infrastructure is critical to the national cybersecurity strategy.

By David Jones • June 12, 2023