After a long AWS migration, Choice Hotels will close its last data center

The company leveraged a one-cloud strategy to bring Radisson Hotels Americas' systems into the tech stack in less than a year, CIO Brian Kirkland said.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 29, 2023

Enterprise software costs rise as major vendors lean on cloud

IBM, Microsoft and Oracle are among a list of providers doubling down on SaaS to propel growth as tech leaders grapple with higher bills.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 28, 2023

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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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Runaway cloud spending frustrates finance execs: report

Finance leaders are almost three times as likely to be concerned about cloud costs than their tech peers, a Vertice study found.

By Alexei Alexis • Sept. 28, 2023

Microsoft advances healthcare cloud strategy, brings generative AI to Mercy

The healthcare system will use Azure OpenAI Service to assist clinicians, improve the patient experience and develop additional use cases. 

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 27, 2023

Cloud sprawl frustrates enterprise connectivity

Companies are losing control of IT and security amid a tangle of apps and SaaS tools, according to a Forrester report commissioned by Cloudflare.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 26, 2023

AWS bets on accuracy in generative AI deployment race

The cloud giant is taking a full-stack approach to generative AI, but one that doubles down on security and reliable results.

By Naomi Eide • Sept. 26, 2023

Cloud attainable for SMBs as costs come down

AWS sees opportunities for business growth in tech-hungry small and midsize businesses.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 20, 2023

Oracle plugs AI into industry clouds, deepens Nvidia partnership

The hyperscaler announced generative AI enhancements to its customer service and healthcare platforms at Oracle CloudWorld 2023.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 19, 2023

How Principal Financial Group fast tracked its AI plans thanks to cloud

Cloud gave the company the flexibility to test generative AI’s potential broadly before settling on specific business applications of the technology.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 19, 2023

Microsoft, Oracle tighten multicloud alliance, ease data migrations

In the new arrangement, Oracle will operate and manage qualifying cloud infrastructure services directly within Microsoft's data centers.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 15, 2023

Compromised credential use jumps 300% in cloud intrusions: IBM

Valid credentials are also a hot commodity in the cybercrime marketplace, accounting for the vast majority of assets for sale on the dark web, IBM found.

By Matt Kapko • Sept. 15, 2023

Cloud strategy misalignment leads some workloads back on-prem

As migrations progress, organizations are still struggling to bring IT investments in line with business goals.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 14, 2023

Oracle races to expand cloud regions, anticipating demand surge

“Because we have far more demand than we can supply, our biggest challenge is building data centers as quickly as possible,” Oracle CEO Safra Catz said.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 12, 2023

Businesses have $300B in unused cloud commitments, Infosys finds

“Cloud can be a black hole for money,” Chris Leigh-Currill, managing partner at Infosys, said in the report.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 11, 2023

Mainframe market still growing in cloud’s shadow

Appreciation for the value of the on-prem data center is rising as organizations contend with post-migration bills.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 8, 2023

IBM raises prices for cloud infrastructure, platform services

While most IaaS billing increases won’t impact U.S. customers, data storage rates will increase for all customers by as much as 26% in January.

By Matt Ashare • Updated Sept. 7, 2023

BMW Group taps AWS to engineer its automated driving platform

The luxury carmaker will shift engineering and operational deployment of new vehicle technologies from on-prem to the cloud.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 5, 2023

Salesforce banks on price hike, generative AI to spur revenue growth

In the words of the CRM giant's CEO Marc Benioff, “that's the AI revolution coming at you, baby, so get ready.”

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 31, 2023

Cloud interoperability remains elusive as tech stacks grow

The push to modernize the enterprise can add unwanted complexity to tangled IT ecosystems, even in the cloud.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 31, 2023

Google Cloud unveils new TPUs in race to optimize AI hardware

The new generation chips are optimized to handle the growing volume of generative AI model training and inference workloads.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 29, 2023

SAP brings generative AI to data cloud platform with Google’s help

The solution infuses the ERP provider’s data ecosystem with Vertex AI tools and initially targets the automotive industry.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 29, 2023

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Enterprise as hyperscalers grow AI marketplaces

Though ChatGPT sparked the generative AI wave, hyperscalers are positioning themselves as all-inclusive shopping destinations for large language model solutions.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Aug. 29, 2023

Google Cloud taps Deloitte, Hitachi Energy to expand ESG toolkit

The collaborations will let organizations leverage cloud, data and analytics tools to further sustainability goals.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 25, 2023

Snowflake banks on LLM demand to boost cloud data consumption

The company requested 1,000 Nvidia GPUs amid high demand for the processing units that power generative AI.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 24, 2023

3 keys to embrace FinOps amid economic uncertainty

In a murky macroeconomic environment, FinOps can help companies regain control over cloud spending.

By Susannah Warfield • Aug. 21, 2023