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    State Street CTO moves to CIO role

    EVP Andrew Zitney shifted into the role this week, filling a vacancy that opened when Brian Franz took a tech leadership position with Estée Lauder in April.

    By Matt Ashare • July 17, 2025
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    Google Cloud pours more than $25B into domestic AI infrastructure

    The investment will expand the hyperscaler’s data center footprint across the largest U.S. power grid in the next two years.

    By Matt Ashare • July 15, 2025
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    Digital transformation

    Digital transformation goes beyond technology — if companies want to engage in a new era of technology, they must rethink how work is done too.

    By CIO Dive staff
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    How CIOs can rebuild IT operating models for the AI era

    Thriving in the AI era requires intentional changes to workforce strategies, team skills and vendor relationships.

    By Cam Cross • July 14, 2025
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    SaaS audit costs climb as tech stack visibility slides

    Nearly half of organizations report spending $1 million or more on software vendor reviews in the last three years, Flexera found.

    By Matt Ashare • July 2, 2025
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    Server sales surged in Q1, driven by GPU demand

    The market more than doubled during the first three months of the year, marking the highest quarterly growth rate in 28 years.

    By Matt Ashare • July 1, 2025
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    Mondelēz demystifies AI-powered coding gains

    The snack maker is using Amazon Q to reduce development time, address resource constraints and speed up its third wave of cloud migrations.

    By • June 27, 2025
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    Hyperscaler buildouts eclipse enterprise data center expansions

    Only a little more than one-third of compute capacity remains on premises despite a recent boost from GPU installs, Synergy Research Group found.

    By Matt Ashare • June 26, 2025
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    Banking industry, big tech unite to forge AI adoption guidelines

    Citi and Morgan Stanley joined forces with AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud to set open-source controls for secure AI adoption in the financial industry.

    By Matt Ashare • June 24, 2025
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    Data center spending soared amid rising GPU demand in Q1

    AI infrastructure buildouts drove a 53% increase in capital expenditures, despite some project cancellations and tariff concerns, Dell’Oro Group said.

    By Matt Ashare • June 20, 2025
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    Broadcom deploys souped up VMware private cloud

    The company made its VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 bundle generally available to customers Tuesday after two months of public beta pre-release.

    By Matt Ashare • June 17, 2025
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    Databricks activates agent-building toolkit, deepens hyperscaler alliances

    The company expanded its Microsoft Azure AI integrations and deployed Google’s Gemini models as it continued to forge agentic partnerships.

    By Matt Ashare • June 16, 2025
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    Oracle waves off cloud customers as its data center investments balloon

    “We are putting out as much capacity as we possibly can,” CEO Safra Catz said during a Wednesday earnings call.

    By Matt Ashare • June 12, 2025
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    Broadcom takes a private cloud victory lap as it axes bottom-tier VMware partners

    The tech giant has converted 87% of its 10,000 largest customers to the VMware Cloud Foundation bundle, CEO Hock Tan said during a Thursday earnings call.

    By Matt Ashare • June 6, 2025
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    FinOps gets a hyperscaler boost as AI, SaaS costs come into FOCUS

    AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Oracle expanded their support for the FinOps Foundation’s ongoing battle to tame enterprise IT spending.

    By Matt Ashare • June 5, 2025
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    HPE gains enterprise traction with private cloud, AI-powered servers

    One-third of the company’s AI orders were driven by enterprise-based GPU server purchases, executives said Tuesday.

    By Matt Ashare • June 4, 2025
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    Snowflake retools data cloud to fuel AI agents, expand integrations

    The company rolled out an expansive portfolio of product updates and acquired PostgreSQL startup Crunchy Data this week.

    By Matt Ashare • June 3, 2025
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    AWS curbs transfer of marketplace cloud credits

    The hyperscaler banned the transfer of Reserved Instances and Saving Plans discounts by third-party providers, effective June 1.

    By Matt Ashare • June 2, 2025
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    Home Depot elevates CIO from within as AI adoption plans progress

    Angie Brown will lead technology strategy for the home improvement retail giant after a 27-year career with the company.

    By Matt Ashare • May 30, 2025
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    SAP and Microsoft broaden cloud ERP alliance

    The two tech giants rolled out a migration acceleration initiative coupled with extensive platform integrations Tuesday.

    By Matt Ashare • Updated June 2, 2025
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    Salesforce reinforces its AI cloud with $8B Informatica acquisition

    The CRM provider plans to use the software company’s data governance tools to build “the most complete, agent-ready data platform in the industry,” Salesforce Chair and CEO Marc Benioff said.

    By Matt Ashare • May 27, 2025
  • Lincoln Financial sign is pictured at the company's branch office in Radnor, Pennsylvania on November 4, 2023.
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    Lincoln Financial drafts former JPMorgan Chase executive as CTO

    Tom Anfuso will guide IT infrastructure strategy for the insurance and financial services firm, reporting to CIO Jennifer Charters.

    By Matt Ashare • May 22, 2025
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    Nvidia, American Express join the FinOps Foundation

    The nonprofit trade group also welcomed AMD, Snowflake and ServiceNow to its ranks Wednesday amid a tech sector push to curb cloud spend.

    By Matt Ashare • May 21, 2025
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    SAP retools its cloud-based ERP to ease migrations

    The software vendor aims to simplify the shift from on-premises systems with line-of-business bundles for finance, supply chain, HR, procurement and CX.

    By Matt Ashare • May 20, 2025
  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers speaks during the Nvidia GTC 2025 on March 18, 2025 in San Jose, California.
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    Nvidia activates AI PC partners, rolls out GPU cloud

    “We have to reinvent computing and bring AI into traditional enterprise computing,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Monday at the Computex conference.

    By Matt Ashare • May 19, 2025
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    Salesforce beefs up agent capabilities with Convergence acquisition

    The startup’s resources will help power Agentforce as the CRM vendor deploys flexible pricing for the platform. 

    By • May 15, 2025