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How the NHL modernized its draft app in the cloud
“We didn’t copy one single bit of code,” the league’s SVP of Technology Grant Nodine said. “We reimagined the database, too.”
By Matt Ashare • Updated June 25, 2024 -
FinOps targets SaaS as software audit costs spike
The number of organizations that paid $10 million-plus on vendor audits over the last three years nearly doubled since 2023, according to Flexera.
By Matt Ashare • June 17, 2024 -
Explore the Trendline➔
Gorodenkoff via Getty ImagesTrendlineDigital transformation
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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AWS expands cloud-based AI training portfolio, adds 2 pro certifications
The new learning programs focus on technical and non-technical proficiencies, business use cases and prompt engineering.
By Matt Ashare • June 14, 2024 -
Snowflake-linked attacks are testing the cloud’s shared responsibility status quo
Assigning responsibility for missing security controls is tricky. The burden is collective but cloud providers need to raise minimum standards, experts say.
By Matt Kapko • June 14, 2024 -
IBM’s Apptio unit tests AI tool trained to tackle rising IT costs
The effort comes as finance leaders grapple with runaway cloud expenses.
By Alexei Alexis • June 13, 2024 -
Oracle inks Google alliance in push toward multicloud future
The technology company also extended its Microsoft partnership to provide OpenAI with infrastructure services, Oracle CEO Safra Catz said during a Tuesday earnings call.
By Matt Ashare • June 12, 2024 -
Deep Dive
Microsoft, playing the long game, invests billions globally to expand Azure empire
“The pressure is on — this is no longer the experimental phase of the cloud,” Alistair Speirs, director of Azure global infrastructure, said.
By Matt Ashare • June 10, 2024 -
Snowflake aims to ease analytics headaches, embeds Nvidia AI in data cloud
The vendor-agnostic Polaris Catalog streamlines access across Apache Iceberg data tables and extends the company’s integrations with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
By Matt Ashare • June 5, 2024 -
SAP beefs up copilot, trains Joule to assist with ERP migrations
The ERP giant embedded its generative AI assistant across business solutions and expanded integrations with Microsoft, AWS and Google Cloud.
By Matt Ashare • June 4, 2024 -
UK regulators sound the alarm on cloud vendor lock-in
Egress fees, licensing practices and discount policies keep enterprises from switching providers and hinder multicloud adoption, the Competition and Markets Authority found.
By Matt Ashare • May 31, 2024 -
Salesforce hits software sales slump, bets on AI adoption to boost business
The top CRM provider saw “elongated deal cycles, deal compression and high levels of budget scrutiny,” COO Brian Millham said Wednesday.
By Matt Ashare • May 30, 2024 -
JPMorgan ramps up prompt engineering training, AI projects
The bank estimates its AI use cases can deliver up to $1.5 billion in value, according to President and COO Daniel Pinto.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 28, 2024 -
Snowflake banks on building modestly sized AI models
“Companies are talking about spending billions of dollars. I don’t think we need to be there,” CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said during the company’s earnings call Wednesday.
By Matt Ashare • May 24, 2024 -
Nvidia CEO promises to deliver ‘a mound of chips’ as AI development speeds ahead
Cloud providers are “consuming every single chip that’s out there,” Jensen Huang said Wednesday. “We’re racing every single day.”
By Matt Ashare • May 23, 2024 -
IBM, Salesforce infuse Einstein with Granite
The integration brings the watsonx multimodel platform into the CRM’s data cloud ecosphere as IBM pushes its LLM solutions into multiple clouds.
By Matt Ashare • May 21, 2024 -
Google leverages Microsoft’s cyber gaps to woo Workspace customers
“The repeated security challenges with Microsoft call for a better alternative for enterprises and public-sector organizations alike,” Google said Monday.
By Matt Ashare • May 20, 2024 -
AWS CEO steps down, sales chief to take over
After a three-year stint helming the cloud titan, Adam Selipsky is passing the baton to AWS veteran Matt Garman.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 14, 2024 -
Enterprises outsource data storage as complexity rises
An overload of operations data, ongoing business growth and expanding web analytics are pushing data estates to their limit, according to a Forrester report.
By Matt Ashare • May 10, 2024 -
IBM embeds AI business solutions in SAP’s cloud
The two companies plan to build tailored tools for manufacturing, consumer goods, retail and automotive industries.
By Matt Ashare • May 9, 2024 -
Microsoft unveils $3.3B AI infrastructure plan as it grows US data center capacity
The plan will feature a data center campus in Wisconsin, upskilling targets and an AI innovation lab focusing on manufacturers, the tech company said.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 8, 2024 -
IT services spend will reach $2 trillion by 2028: Forrester
Tepid growth this year will give way to a landslide of cloud infrastructure spending driven by AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud, the analyst firm said.
By Matt Ashare • May 7, 2024 -
Financial industry alliance pushes for collective AI governance framework
Citi, Morgan Stanley, Databricks and Microsoft will help guide a FINOS initiative aimed at devising best practices for onboarding the technology.
By Matt Ashare • May 6, 2024 -
Amazon tempts enterprises to customize AI on AWS
CEO Andy Jassy called the hyperscaler’s move to open its Bedrock platform to tailored models “a sneaky big launch.”
By Matt Ashare • May 3, 2024 -
Marriott gears up for another year of major tech spending
The company expects full-year investments to reach $1 billion as digital transformation projects advance, according to its latest earnings call.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 2, 2024 -
Microsoft captures one-quarter of global cloud spend in Q1
“This is not just all an AI story,” CEO Satya Nadella said during a quarterly earnings call, pointing to “an acceleration of revenue from migrations to Azure.”
By Matt Ashare • May 2, 2024