Mainframe market still growing in cloud’s shadow

Appreciation for the value of the on-prem data center is rising as organizations contend with post-migration bills.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 8, 2023

IBM raises prices for cloud infrastructure, platform services

While most IaaS billing increases won’t impact U.S. customers, data storage rates will increase for all customers by as much as 26% in January.

By Matt Ashare • Updated Sept. 7, 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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BMW Group taps AWS to engineer its automated driving platform

The luxury carmaker will shift engineering and operational deployment of new vehicle technologies from on-prem to the cloud.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 5, 2023

Salesforce banks on price hike, generative AI to spur revenue growth

In the words of the CRM giant's CEO Marc Benioff, “that's the AI revolution coming at you, baby, so get ready.”

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 31, 2023

Cloud interoperability remains elusive as tech stacks grow

The push to modernize the enterprise can add unwanted complexity to tangled IT ecosystems, even in the cloud.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 31, 2023

Google Cloud unveils new TPUs in race to optimize AI hardware

The new generation chips are optimized to handle the growing volume of generative AI model training and inference workloads.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 29, 2023

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Enterprise as hyperscalers grow AI marketplaces

Though ChatGPT sparked the generative AI wave, hyperscalers are positioning themselves as all-inclusive shopping destinations for large language model solutions.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Aug. 29, 2023

SAP brings generative AI to data cloud platform with Google’s help

The solution infuses the ERP provider’s data ecosystem with Vertex AI tools and initially targets the automotive industry.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 29, 2023

Google Cloud taps Deloitte, Hitachi Energy to expand ESG toolkit

The collaborations will let organizations leverage cloud, data and analytics tools to further sustainability goals.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 25, 2023

Snowflake banks on LLM demand to boost cloud data consumption

The company requested 1,000 Nvidia GPUs amid high demand for the processing units that power generative AI.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 24, 2023

3 keys to embrace FinOps amid economic uncertainty

In a murky macroeconomic environment, FinOps can help companies regain control over cloud spending.

By Susannah Warfield • Aug. 21, 2023

Deloitte, Google Cloud deliver customer analytics solution for retail

The AI-based solution eases data science operations, providing companies with tools to forecast demand and optimize product pricing, the companies said.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 18, 2023

IBM, Microsoft launch generative AI managed service

The new Azure OpenAI solution provides developers and data scientists with multiple models, including GPT and Codex tools.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 17, 2023

Tech job postings dipped in the first half of 2023, but talent woes persist

IT consulting firms, large banks and manufacturers remain hungry for automation, cloud and engineering expertise, Dice found.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 15, 2023

Red Sox chase business, baseball wins in cloud

Boston’s MLB franchise turned to IBM and Wasabi to manage its complex data ecosystem and modernize operations, the team’s CTO Brian Shield said.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 14, 2023

Microsoft-Epic partnership yields EHR cloud solution

Mount Sinai Health System is the first provider to implement Azure Large Instances, which scales database capacity to the level needed for health record workloads.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 10, 2023

Kyndryl leans on consulting, deepens Microsoft alliance in post-IBM drive to profitability

The IT services company remains committed to cloud but is banking on its expertise in mainframe modernization and hybrid ecosystems to fuel growth.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 9, 2023

AWS pledges $20M to K-12 cyber training, incident response

The cloud services provider is participating in a broad White House plan to build additional protection to defend schools against ransomware and other threats.

By David Jones • Aug. 8, 2023

Cloud market growth plateaus as hyperscalers anticipate AI boom

Global spend increased by $10 billion for the third consecutive quarter, with AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud retaining nearly two-thirds of the market, Synergy Research Group found.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 7, 2023

AWS growth slows again, but customers are moving to add workloads

The provider is starting to see more appetite for fresh workloads as the trend of optimization begins to ease.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 4, 2023

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

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