Hardware & Infrastructure
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Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face deal could benefit enterprises
The chipmaker’s acquisition could eventually bring additional security resources and model evaluation tools to the platform, according to experts.
By Paige Gross • Sept. 3, 2026 -
Data center market faces all-time low vacancies despite record-breaking construction
Power capacity available for lease fell to 1.4% in the first half of 2026, even as under-construction capacity surged 25%, according to CBRE.
By Nidhi Sharma • Sept. 3, 2026 -
AI adoption helps sustain confidence in the mainframe
Companies are enlisting agents to help manage the platform amid ongoing modernization, according to BMC’s annual survey.
By Paige Gross • Sept. 1, 2026 -
Nvidia warns of supply bottlenecks into 2028
Despite ongoing memory supply challenges, the company’s data center revenue catapulted to $89 billion in Q2 2027.
By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 27, 2026 -
Apple debuts PCs, chips dedicated to AI workloads
On-device compute can help enterprises navigate rising AI costs and future complexity, said Ranjit Atwal, senior director analyst at Gartner.
By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 25, 2026 -
Verizon taps Google for enterprise AI, infrastructure deployment
The telecommunications company plans to deploy Gemini Enterprise and Google's data infrastructure as it makes AI central to the customer experience.
By Paige Gross • Aug. 24, 2026 -
AI data center spending drives growth in semiconductor market
CIOs are contending with rising compute costs, looking to cheaper models to rein in spending amid rapid infrastructure expansion.
By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 24, 2026 -
Travelers builds its own LLM, cutting AI costs
The insurer built TravelersLLM to handle insurance-specific queries, while broad reasoning, research and coding queries are saved for frontier models.
By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 24, 2026 -
Snowflake adds cost control feature to Cortex AI Gateway
The vendor's model routing automatically picks models based on quality and cost for the selected task, as executive concerns about the price of AI grow.
By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 18, 2026 -
Cisco zeroes in on enterprise hardware refresh
“We are in a multiyear, multibillion-dollar networking super cycle,” Chairman and CEO Chuck Robbins told investors.
By Matt Ashare • Aug. 18, 2026 -
Executives put the spotlight on AI’s reliability issue
Only 35% of leaders say AI consistently delivers business outcomes, earns regulator confidence and allows control, according to a report from HFS Research and TCS.
By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 17, 2026 -
Scaling AI hinges on the enterprise data layer
Limited data access weakens agentic AI results, which creates a lack of trust in the technology, according to a Google Cloud and MIT report.
By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 13, 2026 -
Legacy IT forces enterprises to delay AI projects
Data governance and regulatory challenges are pushing CIOs to revamp their infrastructure to support modern workloads, according to a Cloudera report.
By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 12, 2026 -
AI infrastructure spending shifts in latest sign of deployment maturity
Enterprises are now pouring more resources into operating the technology at scale rather than on training models, according to Gartner.
By Paige Gross • Aug. 10, 2026 -
With AI, CIOs need a new playbook
IT leaders need to rewrite operations from the ground up while facing regulatory pressure, capacity constraints and concerns about vendor lock-in.
By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 10, 2026 -
Amazon ups AI investments as cloud sector chases windfall
Yearly enterprise cloud spending jumped to $500 billion in support of AI buildouts, according to Synergy Research Group.
By Paige Gross • Aug. 3, 2026 -
Deep Dive
AI shifts mainframe modernization strategy
To stay or not to stay on the mainframe? AI might help enterprises do both.
By Makenzie Holland • July 28, 2026 -
Google hikes capital expenditures to $205B, citing demand growth
The tech provider will continue to expand compute in response to capacity constraints, CFO Anat Ashkenazi said during a Wednesday earnings call.
By Makenzie Holland • July 23, 2026 -
Big tech sovereign AI tools promise control, but drive lock-in
Nvidia has emerged as a dominant player in sovereign AI, which accounts for roughly 14% of the company’s revenue, according to a Stanford HAI study.
By Makenzie Holland • July 23, 2026 -
Wells Fargo debuts AI-powered teammate for financial advisers
The new capability aims to simplify access to Wells Fargo’s core technology platform, enabling plain language queries and faster access to insights.
By Makenzie Holland • July 15, 2026 -
IBM stock tumbles after Q2 infrastructure revenue warning
The dip reflects a trend among CIOs to secure compute power amid supply constraints rather than invest in infrastructure upgrades.
By Makenzie Holland • July 14, 2026 -
Texas Capital picks U.S. Bank alum as chief digital, information officer
Mo Jamous will lead the Dallas-based bank’s AI initiatives and strengthen its technology platform.
By Makenzie Holland • July 13, 2026 -
Agentic AI strains legacy IT systems
More than 4 in 5 organizations need to upgrade their tech stacks to support AI agents at scale, according to Google’s 2026 State of AI Infrastructure report.
By Makenzie Holland • July 10, 2026 -
Liberty Mutual preps legacy systems for AI scale
The insurer is reaping the rewards of a yearslong modernization strategy to build systems that allow for as much flexibility as possible.
By Makenzie Holland • July 8, 2026 -
Microsoft pours $2.5B into push to embed engineers with customers
The tech giant will deploy 6,000 engineers through the Microsoft Frontier Company. It’s the latest big tech effort to support AI deployment at scale.
By Makenzie Holland • July 2, 2026