In 'lead-to-cash' push, SAP acquires CallidusCloud for $2.4B

By adding to its portfolio, CallidusCloud aligns SAP more closely with its competitors, including Oracle, Salesforce, Workday and IBM.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 30, 2018

There's an app for that, but is there a service?

Security challenges have remained largely unchanged year-over-year, but confidence in the security of expanding multi-cloud environments is waning.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 29, 2018

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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

Failure of a major cloud provider would cost $15B. But could that happen?

Service disruptions can cause an hour or two of downtime, but Lloyd's projections of three to six days is unheard of.

By Naomi Eide • Jan. 26, 2018

Alibaba, Microsoft score a 'B' in AI

Both tech companies said their AI systems managed to score over 82% in a Stanford reading and comprehension test, deemed a "human score."

By Dan O'Shea • Jan. 24, 2018

Google rolls out ML, security and Salesforce tools

From democratizing AI and ML one step further to branching out interoperability with a major software provider, Google is beefing up its enterprise cloud offerings.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 18, 2018

Microsoft, Google start to do more than chip away at AWS' lead

The two tech giants reportedly carved out 6% of AWS' market share over the course of a year, and future investment plans may take a bigger bite out.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 17, 2018

Two US cities lead world colocation market

More than one-quarter of the global market is held between Washington, D.C., New York, Tokyo, London and Shanghai.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 16, 2018

After years of speculation, Dropbox reportedly files to go public

Dropbox's competitor, Box, is also a publicly shared company, but Box has struggled to maintain profits since announcing its 2015 IPO.  

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 12, 2018

Facing the unknown: Preparing accounting and finance departments for emerging technology

Today, a new generation of cloud-powered financial applications leveraging Big Data analytics provides finance and accounting departments with transformative capabilities. 

By Jim Walsh • Jan. 9, 2018

2018 business technology trends at a glance

This year, departments across a business are set to become more technical, concerned with up-and-coming technology like AI and Big Data. 

By Naomi Eide , Samantha Schwartz , Alex Hickey • Jan. 9, 2018

There can only be one: Microsoft and Amazon square off for top IaaS, PaaS provider

More than $100 billion in revenue for service providers came from cloud-based IaaS, PaaS, hosted private cloud services and enterprise SaaS.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 8, 2018

5 trends shaping the cloud in 2018

As the market changes, so too will its players, and 2018 will bring significant maturation to cloud portfolios and mid-sized players. 

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 8, 2018

Benioff sets fast track for Salesforce, but is it enough to hold Microsoft at bay?

Salesforce wants to double its revenue to $20 billion by FY 2022, with an eye on $60 billion by 2034. Microsoft, SAP and Oracle will be best poised to challenge the company's lead in the CRM market.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 5, 2018

Microsoft calls for tech companies to serve as 'medics in cyberspace'

Tension between technology and public policy is erupting in cybersecurity and AI spaces.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 2, 2018

Santa's migrating his toy workshop to the cloud

At the North Pole, elves were suffering and couldn't keep up with the high volume of orders. Because Santa failed to check the list twice, they were filling orders from Christmases long past, leading to inefficiency and wasted work.

By Naomi Eide • Dec. 21, 2017

Big Data just got cheaper on Microsoft Azure

The framework dispatches Apache Hadoop properties in the Azure cloud, providing a software for managing and analyzing Big Data.

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 20, 2017

What's the biggest problem CIOs face? Deciding what to say no to

Coming into a new organization, it is imperative that CIOs have short- and long-term technology in place to make sure obstacles like a tech talent shortage do not derail IT, according to Dropbox CIO Sylvie Veilleux. 

By Naomi Eide • Dec. 18, 2017

Etsy adopts Google Cloud, steps away from 'do-it-yourself' tech approach

The adoption of Google's cloud indicates that the e-commerce site is looking to depend less on its own digital infrastructure. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 15, 2017

Cloud migrations remain a challenge, so Box is embedding consultants

Box's efforts are not unique to technology companies. The old-guard of enterprise technology, such as Oracle and SAP, have long-standing consulting practices that constitute the backbone of their product offerings. 

By Naomi Eide • Dec. 13, 2017

Microsoft offers Q# so developers don't fall flat on quantum

The tech company launched a quantum programming language, cloud-hosted simulators and code library as the race for quantum supremacy heats up.

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 12, 2017

How Microsoft will hit its $1 trillion valuation

Azure cloud and Microsoft 365 revenue growth are set to turn high profits for Microsoft in the coming years.

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 11, 2017

AWS announces single sign-on, but is it worth it?

If a bad actor were to obtain a single password that can access multiple applications, the damages could prove catastrophic.

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 11, 2017

How Pinterest transformed digital strategy from cloud to containers, ML and open source

Pinterest has used an array of advanced digital tools to grow its global footprint to 200 million active users. 

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 8, 2017

'Whole cloud' revenues projected to hit $554B in 2021

The "whole cloud" market includes public, private and hybrid cloud offerings as well as cloud-based services, software and infrastructure-related hardware.

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 7, 2017

Company of the Year: Microsoft

It may be the No. 3 most valuable company internationally, but right now Microsoft is No. 1 in the enterprise thanks to its turn from personal computing to enterprise and cloud services.

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 4, 2017