Generative AI fueled $60B boost in enterprise cloud spend last year

“The technology might be expensive, but it is creating new services that are bringing in tens of billions of dollars for the cloud providers,” Synergy Research Group Chief Analyst John Dinsdale said.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 10, 2025

How Mondelēz laid the groundwork for a major digital overhaul

The snack maker spent 18 months gearing up for transformation, which will include data center exits, workload migrations, generative AI exploration and an ERP upgrade.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Feb. 10, 2025

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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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Amazon to boost AWS capacity with $100B investment

The company will keep fueling infrastructure spend to support AI and cloud, amid what CEO Andy Jassy described as a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 7, 2025

Google plans $75B investment to build out cloud AI capacity

The majority of the spending will target technical infrastructure, including servers and data centers, CFO Anat Ashkenazi said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 5, 2025

Enterprises lean on container solutions to deploy generative AI

The move to scale use cases revealed limitations in existing IT infrastructure, a Nutanix report found.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 5, 2025

Microsoft races to bring more cloud capacity online

Enterprise AI workloads and OpenAI training consumed Azure resources last year. “We have been short power and space,” CFO Amy Hood said.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 30, 2025

How JPMorgan Chase’s infrastructure chief keeps the AI engine humming

The bank is sourcing compute resources five to 10 years out, said Darrin Alves, CIO of infrastructure platforms.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 30, 2025

SAP unveils additional ERP transition support in ongoing cloud push

The ERP giant will offer business continuity services through 2033 to customers facing complex migrations, the company said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 28, 2025

Tech execs grapple with budget sinkholes as AI drives up spend

Unpredictable cloud bills, outdated software licenses and shadow IT frustrate FinOps efforts, according to Apptio.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 27, 2025

Banks fire up coding assistants as AI costs plummet

“Generative AI is going to impact every function within a bank — every single part of the job,” Accenture Global Banking Lead Michael Abbott said.

By Matt Ashare • Updated Jan. 27, 2025

Travelers’ modernization push yields efficiency, productivity gains

The insurer more than doubled strategic tech investments since 2017 while reining in routine IT spending, CEO Alan Schnitzer said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 23, 2025

Google Cloud links poor credentials to nearly half of cloud-based attacks

Cloud services with weak credentials were prime target for attackers, often resulting in lateral movement attempts, a Google Cloud report found.

By Matt Kapko • Jan. 23, 2025

Capital One touts efficiency gains from long-haul IT makeover

"Efficiency was never the objective function," CEO Richard Fairbank said Tuesday. "It was one of the many benefits of a tech transformation."

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 22, 2025

PC shipments saw sluggish growth in 2024 despite AI hype

 IT leaders leveraged cloud for AI and took a wait-and-see approach to investing in souped up AI PCs, according to Gartner.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 17, 2025

Citi deploys AI coding tools to 30K developers in modernization push

The bank poured nearly $12 billion into technology in 2024, executives said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 16, 2025

Is private cloud having a moment?

Faced with mounting hyperscaler bills, proliferating data and compute-hungry generative AI, enterprises are weighing alternatives to public cloud.

By Matt Ashare • Updated Jan. 16, 2025

IT teams plan to double down on hybrid cloud

Instead of updating existing infrastructure, enterprises are designing entirely new strategies, Rackspace’s Srini Koushik said.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 15, 2025

Cloud, enterprise spend on data center gear spiked in 2024

Hyperscaler investments dominated the market, but CIOs and their surrogates contributed to the spending surge, according to Synergy Research Group.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 10, 2025

SAP tailors cloud-based ERP for retail businesses

The S/4HANA industry vertical centralizes operational data and integrates finance, procurement and merchandising.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 9, 2025

Microsoft plans to pour $80B into cloud data centers

The tech giant will funnel more than half of the investments into U.S.-based facilities, Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said Friday.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 6, 2025

How Akamai regained control of its runaway cloud bills

“What started organically had ballooned to hundreds of millions of dollars in spend,” Akamai CIO Kate Prouty said.

By Matt Ashare • Updated Jan. 7, 2025

How enterprise cloud architects can drive adoption

The complexity of cloud requires at least one accountable architectural leader to guide companies through transformation.

By Ang Troy • Jan. 2, 2025

Accenture sees enterprises prioritizing large-scale transformations

“Our clients are focused on reinvention,” CEO Julie Sweet said Thursday, during the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 19, 2024

Infosys turns to Google Cloud to expand AI portfolio

The IT services firm unveiled a Google Cloud center of excellence with a dedicated AI lab Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 17, 2024

SAP adds carbon-tracking solution to its cloud-based ERP toolkit

The Green Ledger tool tracks and accounts for emissions across business units, the technology company said Monday.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 16, 2024