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

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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

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

Western Digital on a buying spree as it looks to modernize

The company recently acquired Tegile Systems, a flash storage manufacturer, and Upthere, a cloud services company, and is hoping to finalize the purchase of Toshiba's chip business this week.

By Justine Brown • Aug. 30, 2017

VMware Cloud goes live on AWS

The offering enables companies running VMware software to transfer data to other cloud providers.

By Justine Brown • Aug. 29, 2017

Define the business case for moving ERP to the cloud

Instant use, intelligent software and innovative capabilities are the driving forces of intelligent cloud ERP adoption.

By Sal Laher • Aug. 29, 2017

Microsoft's Project Brainwave promises real-time AI in the cloud

The hardware acceleration platform is designed to process requests as fast as it receives them.

By Justine Brown • Aug. 28, 2017

Marketo to move marketing automation infrastructure to Google Cloud

The collaboration will enable Marketo users to use G Suite offerings as well as analytics tools, such as Google BigQuery and Machine Learning APIs.

By Justine Brown • Aug. 25, 2017

Regular or premium? Google gives cloud customers option of using public internet

The fiber network alternative should offer performance comparable to what customers would experience with other cloud providers.

By Justine Brown • Aug. 24, 2017

Microsoft Azure takes data to the archives for long-term storage

Archival storage may be cheaper, but it has a few downsides of its own, such as higher data retrieval costs and longer retrieval times.

By Justine Brown • Aug. 24, 2017

Shutterstock CIO departs after short tenure

David Giambruno's employment with Shutterstock officially terminated on Aug. 14, though he will continue to provide consulting services as needed through mid-November.

By Justine Brown • Aug. 22, 2017

Microsoft achieves 'human parity' in speech recognition system

Researchers were able to make the model learn from conversation history to adapt to the topic and local context as well as predict what was likely to be said next.

By Alex Hickey • Aug. 22, 2017

3 ways the cloud can help IT continually deliver 'state of the art'

The reality is, technology is no longer adopted or implemented from the top down — it's coming from the bottom up.

By Bryan Martin • Aug. 22, 2017