Oracle elevates co-CEOs to shepherd AI cloud business

The company appointed Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to chief executive officer roles Monday. Former CEO Safra Catz became executive vice chair of the board as part of the move.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 22, 2025

Microsoft, Nvidia pour billions into UK data center buildout

The U.S. tech giants are joining the largest AI infrastructure rollout in the country’s history, Nvidia said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 17, 2025

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Global AI spending to approach $1.5 trillion this year: Gartner

Hyperscaler investments in GPUs and accelerators will nearly double the size of the AI server market, the analyst firm said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 17, 2025

Mainframe skills gain traction with younger techies

Millennials make up more than half of the mainframe workforce as generative AI workloads proliferate on the platform, according to a BMC study.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 16, 2025

5 tech executive insights on the future of cloud

Generative AI is broadening the cloud customer base beyond IT as enterprise adoption efforts accelerate, executives said Tuesday at a Goldman Sachs conference.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 12, 2025

Oracle trumpets $6M private data center amid AI spending blitz

The company added $10 billion to its capital investment plans for the fiscal year, reaching $35 billion, CEO Safra Catz said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 10, 2025

SAP pours more than $23B into EU sovereign cloud buildout

The ERP will expand access to its software through infrastructure services running in SAP data centers in Europe and to on-premises estates.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 2, 2025

Nvidia CEO praises open-source AI as enterprises deploy GPU servers

“Open-source models are opening up large enterprises, SaaS companies, industrial companies, robotics companies to now join the AI revolution,” Jensen Huang said.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 28, 2025

Citi rolls out a pair of AI-powered banking platforms

The financial firm’s data, analytics and innovation team deployed two client-communication assistants for its wealth advisory division Monday.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 27, 2025

Walmart buys into VMware’s private cloud

The retail giant plans to deploy the vendor’s virtualization software across its globally distributed operations, VMware parent company Broadcom said.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 26, 2025

IT, business leaders clash over cloud, data security

Executives plan to increase IT spend despite disappointing returns on tech investments, according to Unisys.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 22, 2025

Cyber, AI drive software spending to double-digit growth through 2029

Cloud security and identity and access management tool purchases insulated the market from tariff-induced economic shocks, according to Forrester.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 19, 2025

Data center vacancies plummet amid power supply constraints

Colocation vacancy rates in North America dropped to an historic low during the first half of the year, according to JLL.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 18, 2025

Cisco banks on hardware refresh as AI boosts enterprise segment

The company expects network traffic to reach “unprecedented levels” as agentic AI and inferencing workloads proliferate, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 14, 2025

Microsoft axes volume discounts for SaaS suites

The move is intended to standardize pricing for online services, including Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365, the company said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • Updated Aug. 14, 2025

Cloud’s big 3 continue to rule infrastructure services

AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud commanded more than 70% of global IaaS spend in 2024, according to Gartner.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 11, 2025

Why Capital One’s software division created its own data security tool

When the bank couldn’t find a commercially available tokenization software tool, it tapped its engineering team to build one.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 4, 2025

Amazon leans on AWS’ size, security as Q2 cloud market nears $100B

“We have a meaningfully larger business in the AWS segment than others,” CEO Andy Jassy said during the company’s Q2 2025 earnings call Thursday.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 1, 2025

Microsoft rebuked by UK regulators as cloud revenues soar

Azure revenue increased 34% year over year to more than $75 billion in the last year, despite an ongoing capacity crunch, executives said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • July 31, 2025

PNC embeds commercial finance platform in Oracle Fusion ERP

The bank’s cloud-based Pinacle Connect treasury management system automates transaction processes and breaks down data silos, the two companies said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • July 29, 2025

Google Cloud jacks up CapEx to build more cloud

The hyperscaler boosted its AI infrastructure investment plan for the year by 13% to $85 billion, executives said during a Wednesday earnings call.

By Matt Ashare • July 24, 2025

SAP braces for IT spending lull as tariff woes intensify

The Germany-based ERP giant saw deal cycles elongate as customers implemented strict cost controls, CEO Christian Klein said during a Tuesday earnings call.

By Matt Ashare • July 23, 2025

Businesses tighten IT spending plans amid Trump tariff threats

Shifts in U.S. trade policy pushed companies into a wait-and-see mode, S&P Global Market Intelligence Research Analyst Malav Parekh said.

By Matt Ashare • July 23, 2025

Java licensing snafus cost millions, drive developers to open source

More than 1 in 4 organizations spend between $100,000 and $500,000 in audit penalties annually, according to a joint study by Azul and the ITAM Forum.

By Matt Ashare • July 21, 2025

Banks diversify cloud portfolios to bolster resilience

Financial firms are leaning on cloud to improve customer service and power long-term growth, London Stock Exchange Group found.

By Matt Ashare • July 18, 2025