Amazon misses out on another grocer as Albertsons chooses Azure

As Microsoft continues to shape its offerings to accommodate industries like grocery and retail, Amazon and Google have a battle of perception to overcome.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 28, 2019

7 enterprise tech startups to watch in 2019

Becoming a successful technology startup is not easy. Many markets, such as cybersecurity, are oversaturated with small vendors, which makes standing out difficult.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 25, 2019

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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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New certification, training help Google Cloud on quest for more experts

The company is focusing on areas core to cloud success, such as networking, security and cloud-native development, according to Google's Rochana Golani.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 24, 2019

Microsoft is shifting the way customers buy Azure services

Technology vendors are aware the ease of access to services introduces portfolio complexity, frustrating customers with steep software bills.

By Naomi Eide • Jan. 24, 2019

Build vs. buy: How AWS balances organic growth and strategic acquisitions

With few acquisitions, the cloud leader tends to rely on organic growth of new functionalities. But in the last month, AWS picked up steam with the purchases of CloudEndure and TSO Logic. 

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 18, 2019

Retailers push for hybrid cloud as staying on budget remains an industry strength

The retail industry has the second-strongest rate of hybrid cloud deployments, driven by application, traffic uptick and budget demands. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 14, 2019

Top 2019 trends for IT decision makers

From software and cloud to security and leadership, these trends will shape business technology in the coming months. 

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 11, 2019

2019 trends: The cloud journey is never complete

This year, even businesses well into a cloud migration will have to reassess what cloud computing means for their portfolios and near- and long-term strategies.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 8, 2019

Cloud vendors surpass $250B revenue 'milestone' in 2018

Scalability and flexibility are overshadowing cost savings as a reason for cloud adoption. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 8, 2019

GitLab pushes back on serverless computing vendor lock-in

Serverless technology can facilitate application portability across different clouds, making developers' jobs easier, said GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 3, 2019

Our 10 best stories of 2018

To sum it up, 2018 was a year of change and the stories that resonated most focused on the future.

By Naomi Eide • Dec. 21, 2018

Microsoft's hold on industry as an enterprise mainstay hinges on cloud, AI

Patents and acquisitions have backed up the company's progress in fields from AI and the cloud to edge computing, open source development and even quantum computing.

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 21, 2018

Organizations look to cloud for infrastructure woes but not cost savings

More investments in business technology are congruently an investment in the cloud.

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 21, 2018

There's 'no way' customers would migrate from Oracle to Amazon database software, Ellison says

High-profile companies have worked to migrate off Oracle database technology, sparking a war of words for Larry Ellison, Oracle's chairman and CTO. 

By Naomi Eide • Dec. 18, 2018

The biggest, baddest, billion-dollar tech deals in 2018

Enterprise technology saw not one, not two, but nine multibillion dollar acquisitions take place in the last 12 months, running the gamut from a mere $1.7 billion to a whopping $34 billion.

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 14, 2018

A 'leap of faith': Whirlpool Corp.'s journey to the cloud

What runs on those data centers can be a mystery, tangled in a dark web of application interdependence.

By Naomi Eide • Dec. 14, 2018

Shortage in cloud talent as cloud job seekers lag employer demand

The big three cloud providers — AWS, Azure and Google Cloud — continue to dominate job searches and postings related to cloud computing. 

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 6, 2018

Michaels taps Salesforce to deploy personalized shopping tech

With the addition of Salesforce Marketing Cloud, the arts and crafts retailer again taps its long-time partner, this time for cloud-based marketing help.

By Dan O'Shea • Dec. 6, 2018

Welch's CIO finds $1M savings with new software support vendor

"One of the crowning achievements of my career as CIO was to break the hamster wheel of Oracle Support," said Welch's Dave Jackson.

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 6, 2018

Dramatic or justified? Retailers' fears push cloud customers from AWS to Microsoft, Google

Though AWS and Amazon.com operate separately, retailers feel they could unintentionally add to a competitor's profit.

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 30, 2018

AWS CEO expects freedom from Oracle database by end of 2019

During his re:Invent conference keynote, Andy Jassy took some "defensive" jabs at other cloud vendors. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 29, 2018

Amazon digs into cloud hardware with on-prem racks, data center processors

Customers want the same APIs, tools, hardware and functionality between cloud and on-premise environments, the latter of which many aren't ready to retire yet. Amazon is responding. 

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 29, 2018

AWS takes on shadow IT with customizable software marketplace

Most IT professionals want to ignore software as a service applications, but they can't afford to do so because eventually a enough of it will demand attention.

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 28, 2018

A lesson in chaos engineering as Black Friday, Cyber Monday loom

An hours-long outage could push a business into the red on the largest retail weekend of the year.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 21, 2018

Synergy Research: Salesforce emerges as a top 5 global cloud leader, ties with IBM

AWS, Microsoft and Azure held tightly onto the top ranks of public cloud leadership, collectively accounting for 65% of the global market. 

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 20, 2018