IT hiring swings upward after 4-month slump

The addition of more than 200,000 tech positions across the economy marks a “welcome return to stability,” CompTIA Chief Research Officer Tim Herbert said.

By Matt Ashare • April 5, 2024

As mainframes turn 60, skill gaps threaten the enterprise workhorse

“Great technology doesn't really go away — it finds the niche that it was made for,” Forrester Senior Analyst Brent Ellis said.

By Matt Ashare • Updated April 12, 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

Banking’s mainframe strategies shift as boards push for AI, cloud

Nearly two-thirds of global banking leaders plan to use generative AI to expedite cloud migrations, according to NTT Data.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 4, 2024

Why CIOs should rope tax into ERP modernizations

“The tax agenda is the most underserved corporate function by legacy ERP systems,” said David Nickson, principal in EY’s tax, technology and transformation practice.

By Matt Ashare • April 4, 2024

Cloudflare activates global GPU network, deploys Hugging Face integration

The cloud connectivity provider’s Workers AI edge solution is now generally available in more than 150 cities, the company announced Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • April 2, 2024

Microsoft decouples Teams from 365 globally

The move comes eight months after the software giant unbundled the two solutions in the European Economic Area and Switzerland to quell regulatory concerns.

By Matt Ashare • April 1, 2024

Hyperscaler data center expansions ignite AI server market boom

As LLM technologies proliferated, GPUs surpassed CPUs in revenue for the first time last year, according to Dell’Oro research.

By Matt Ashare • March 28, 2024

AWS relaxes Savings Plans restrictions

Customers can cancel cloud discount pricing packages within a week of purchase, the hyperscaler announced Monday.

By Matt Ashare • March 26, 2024

Hybrid makes a comeback as cloud strategies mature

Companies are diversifying IT environments, mixing and matching on-prem with public cloud and edge locations, according to Nutanix data.

By Matt Ashare • March 25, 2024

Banks balance cloud, cyber priorities with AI eagerness

More than two-thirds of financial firms have made meaningful progress on core modernization, according to Broadridge data.

By Matt Ashare • March 25, 2024

Accenture sees companies struggling to scale AI

“Clients are coming to grips with the investments needed to truly implement AI across the enterprise and nearly all are finding it difficult to scale,” Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said Thursday.

By Matt Ashare • March 22, 2024

Nvidia lures all 4 major cloud hyperscalers with Blackwell ‘superchip’

AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Oracle will embed the chipmaker’s new GPU processors, which experts say is critical for AI infrastructure

By Matt Ashare • March 20, 2024

Nvidia, SAP unite to accelerate industry-focused generative AI

“SAP is sitting on a gold mine of enterprise data that can be transformed into custom generative AI agents,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Monday.

By Matt Ashare • March 19, 2024

3 ways CIOs can lead enterprise cost optimization

Companies are cautiously optimistic about the economy but still focused on controlling spending throughout the enterprise, Boston Consulting Group found.

By Matt Ashare • March 19, 2024

Microsoft joins AWS, Google Cloud on path to free data egress

Azure is the latest platform to lower the cost of switching cloud vendors.

By Matt Ashare • March 14, 2024

SAP beefs up Commerce Cloud in ongoing SaaS push

The enterprise software vendor added third-party payment integration capabilities to its e-commerce platform.

By Matt Ashare • March 14, 2024

Oracle surpasses major cloud threshold, pours $10B into data center expansions

“This quarter marks the first time our total cloud revenue is more than our total license support revenue," CEO Safra Catz said. "We have crossed over."

By Matt Ashare • March 12, 2024

Costs, not security, worry enterprise leaders most as cloud estates multiply

Optimizing spend surpassed security among enterprise concerns, Flexera’s annual survey found.

By Matt Ashare • March 12, 2024

Enterprises spend hundreds of hours a year on SaaS contracts

Organizations pour far more into SaaS than what shows up on the books once the dollar value of time spent on contracts is factored in, according to Vertice.

By Matt Ashare • March 7, 2024

SAP beefs up generative AI toolbox with new data integrations

As part of a broader shift to cloud, the ERP giant will enhance analytics and expand AI governance capabilities.

By Matt Ashare • March 6, 2024

AWS pares back data transfer costs

The largest hyperscaler is the latest provider to waive egress fees, following a similar announcement by Google Cloud in January.

By Matt Ashare • March 5, 2024

Fees consume nearly half of cloud data storage spending: report

Most enterprise customers exceeded object storage budgets last year and expect to increase spending in 2024, according to Wasabi.

By Matt Ashare • March 4, 2024

Snowflake details next stage of AI data strategy as new CEO takes the helm

The retirement of Snowflake’s CEO and ascendance of its SVP of AI punctuates an AI-fueled data boom for the company. 

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 29, 2024

Kubernetes cloud costs spike as overprovisioning persists

Despite optimization efforts, enterprises regularly buy more compute than needed to run containerized workloads, according to a Cast AI analysis.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 28, 2024

Average software waste hit $18M last year despite optimization push

Overall SaaS spending fell year over year, but shadow IT overspend and app redundancies persisted, Zylo research found.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 27, 2024