Symantec reduces expenses, collaborates with Microsoft

There are also plans to implement Azure Container Services, ML and PaaS for Symantec’s entire IT strategy and operations. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 17, 2017

Alibaba adds Red Hat software to its cloud offerings

The China-based cloud giant is working to expand its international customer base, but there are limitations, especially AWS' stature as an already established, global cloud.

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 16, 2017

Explore the Trendline➔

Hybrid cloud

IT decision makers turn to hybrid cloud in search of security, flexibility and scale within enterprise infrastructure.

By CIO Dive staff

Rethinking security for cloud workloads

For the first time in the digital age, cloud software and SaaS enable the company that develops the software to also be the company that hosts the software for the consumption of its customers.

By Manish Gupta • Oct. 12, 2017

Two-thirds of Office users will be in the cloud by FY19, Microsoft says

The tech giant boasts about 100 million active users on its commercial cloud, which includes more than 90 million iOS and Android Office customers.

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 12, 2017

IT budget optimism bodes well for cloud investment and tech jobs

An overall increase in company revenue is expected to translate to a 19% increase in IT budgets, opening up opportunities for investment and expansion.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 11, 2017

GE solidifies commitment to AWS for IT apps

The company is forgoing building and running its own data centers in order to focus IT teams and resources on digital innovation.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 9, 2017

AWS alerts customers when they have low cloud utilization — costing the vendor $500M a year

The company has given up "hundreds of million of dollars" a year as part of its customer focus and attention toward ensuring products are effectively used, AWS' CEO said.

By Naomi Eide • Oct. 5, 2017

Three tips for securing hybrid IT

By understanding the differences in security demands for cloud and on-premises environments, enterprises can be confident applications and data across a hybrid IT landscape are secure.

By Suresh Sridharan • Oct. 3, 2017

Oracle debuts autonomous cloud database for data warehouse workloads

The news may be cause for concern for DevOps or testing IT workers, but studies have shown AI and automation are more likely to improve worker productivity and create new tech jobs.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 2, 2017

Toyota races to AWS analytics for real-time vehicle data collection

Toyota Racing Development shifting its workloads to AWS goes against the hybrid approach favored by many enterprises.

By Samantha Schwartz • Sept. 29, 2017

5 technologies Microsoft 'Ignited' this week

The business technology giant announced updates and improvements across its products and services at Ignite this week in Orlando. Cloud storage functionalities took precedence, but Microsoft did not cast off its software foundation. 

By Samantha Schwartz , Alex Hickey • Sept. 28, 2017

Lack of cloud expertise costs enterprises $258M annually

Many companies face a shortage of IT professionals with sufficient cloud expertise, which could be stifling innovation, creativity and productivity.

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 27, 2017

GE remains focused on digital transformation and cloud

The company is set to switch from AWS to Azure next month, and CEO John Flannery has reaffirmed commitments to digital technologies. 

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 25, 2017

New IBM device moves customer data to the cloud, 120TB at a time

Big Blue says the device boasts a larger storage capacity than AWS' Snowball and Google Transfer Appliance.

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 20, 2017

AWS cloud pricing revamp allows customers to pay per second

Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure have had pay per minute billing since 2013. Until now, Amazon only offered per hour billing.

By Samantha Schwartz • Sept. 19, 2017

Financial management quickly finding a home in the cloud

Around 40% of small, midsize and large enterprises plan to migrate to the cloud within the next three years, according to a Gartner survey of global senior financial executives.

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 19, 2017

Oracle takes on AWS' RedShift with plans for autonomous database

CTO Larry Ellison said the autonomous database will be more cost effective for customers who use Amazon's human-run database, RedShift.

By Samantha Schwartz • Sept. 18, 2017

Half of enterprises use multiple IaaS providers, Cloudify says

The most common two-cloud combinations are AWS and Azure, a public/public combination, followed by AWS and OpenStack, a public/private combination.

By Naomi Eide , Alex Hickey • Sept. 14, 2017

VMware eases cloud migration with another IBM collaboration

The launch allows organizations migrating to IBM Cloud to use a network of applications available through the cloud platform.

By Samantha Schwartz • Sept. 12, 2017

AI taking over the enterprise, one vendor feature at a time

CIO Dive spoke with Box CEO Aaron Levie about the integration of machine learning image recognition technology into its platform and the future potential for AI.

By Naomi Eide • Sept. 8, 2017

Oracle expands IoT Cloud capabilities with 'drag-and-drop' AI

AI-based IoT solutions keep factories running smoothly by alerting employees when problems occur or machines require maintenance.

By Justine Brown , Alex Hickey • Sept. 5, 2017

Microsoft extends SaaS market lead, trailed by Salesforce and Adobe

The worldwide enterprise SaaS market grew 31% in the second quarter to reach nearly $15 billion in revenues.

By Justine Brown • Sept. 1, 2017

Report: Walmart doubles down on Nvidia chips

Walmart is building a "GPU farm" that will be about a tenth of the size of rival Amazon Web Services' GPU cloud.

By Justine Brown , Alex Hickey • Aug. 31, 2017

Alexa and Cortana become fast friends as Amazon, Microsoft partner on smart assistants

The move is geared toward consumers but it also has deep ties in the enterprise, which could set the stage for future deals and partnerships for the technology giants.

By Naomi Eide • Aug. 31, 2017

Report: Target opts out of Amazon cloud services

By moving away from the e-commerce giant's lucrative cloud services business, retailers seem to be trying to undermine Amazon's main source of support.

By Daphne Howland • Aug. 30, 2017