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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Empowered developers, cost savings drive serverless computing adoption

Developers spend 30% to 40% of their time working on or waiting for infrastructure, and serverless computing allows them to turn their attention elsewhere.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 19, 2018

Google Cloud CEO stepping down; Oracle veteran to succeed

After three years as chief executive, Diane Greene will leave her role to focus on empowering women leaders in STEM.

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 19, 2018

Docker, MuleSoft deal nods to legacy environment needs

MuleSoft and Docker provide options for customers to containerize legacy environments or rebuild their environment in a containerized architecture.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 16, 2018

AWS and Coursera deliver cloud training 101

AWS already has a robust training program, but with Coursera it has access to 32 million more learners, including broad IT and data science learning spaces.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 15, 2018

TBM software company Apptio set for $1.9B acquisition

The deal with Vista Equity Partners includes a month-long "go-shop" period during which Apptio's board can solicit and evaluate alternative acquisition proposals.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 12, 2018

Gap chooses Microsoft's cloud, as retailers avoid AWS

The retailer wants to use Azure for e-commerce operations, inventory and workforce systems.

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 9, 2018

Johnson & Johnson completes cloud migration with a boost from early adoption and its CIO

Top-down investment paved the way for J&J to prioritize technology transformation, placing it ahead of the adoption curve for then-emerging technologies like hybrid cloud.

By Naomi Eide • Nov. 5, 2018

Red Hat acquisition is hybrid, open source power play for IBM, but it must tread carefully

Is a Red Hat acquisition enough to make IBM one of the "cool kids" of open source and the "Switzerland" of cloud?

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 30, 2018

IBM's $34B Red Hat acquisition takes over hybrid cloud market

Big Blue will remain committed to Red Hat's open source model, helping scale its technology to global enterprises.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 29, 2018

Cloud infrastructure services up on the year, down on the quarter

Quarterly cloud infrastructure revenue surpassed $17 billion, including IaaS, PaaS and hosted private cloud services, according to Synergy Research Group. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 26, 2018

Gartner's 10 technology trends for 2019 and beyond

Intelligence and connectivity are becoming the norm. With that prevalence come threats of future tech capable of disrupting current models.

By Naomi Eide • Oct. 22, 2018