AWS is still trying to cut cloud costs

Just weeks after joining the FinOps Foundation, the leading hyperscaler unveiled infrastructure and service enhancements to help customers optimize data, spending and compute.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 29, 2023

Nvidia revenues soar amid hyperscaler AI rush

The chipmaker's products underpin the AI services at the center of an enterprise adoption wave, but research and development are still underway.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 27, 2023

3 reasons to avoid cloud repatriation: Forrester

Migrations don’t always go as planned, but shifting applications back to on-prem data centers isn’t a slam dunk either.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 9, 2023

Normalized billing, sovereignty to shape cloud in 2024: Forrester

Bowing to customer demand, providers will also address data center sustainability and introduce prompt engineering services, the firm expects.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 2, 2023

Inside Kyndryl’s sprint to decouple IT from IBM

Ahead of a Nov. 3 deadline, CIO Michael Bradshaw detailed the company’s push to rebuild IT, moving 1,800 applications to an all-cloud infrastructure in two years.

By Matt Ashare • Oct. 31, 2023

Microsoft grows cloud business, banks on full-stack AI strategy

Large language models and the generative AI tools they power aren’t the only driver of Azure usage and revenue growth — but the technology has gained traction.

By Matt Ashare • Oct. 25, 2023

Hyperscaler data center capacity to nearly triple by 2029

Cloud providers are building new infrastructure and retrofitting systems to prepare for high-intensity generative AI workloads, according to Synergy Research Group.

By Matt Ashare • Oct. 20, 2023

Google challenges AWS, boosts cloud database speed, performance

Upgrades to the company’s Cloud Spanner service increase transaction efficiency by 50%, effectively cutting costs in half, according to the company.

By Matt Ashare • Oct. 12, 2023

PC market set to shake prolonged post-pandemic contraction

“The business PC market is ready for the next replacement cycle, driven by the Windows 11 upgrades,” Gartner Director Analyst Mikako Kitagawa said.

By Matt Ashare • Oct. 10, 2023

UK regulators ‘concerned’ about AWS, Microsoft amid cloud market probe

Following a yearlong inquiry into competitive practices, Ofcom referred the public cloud infrastructure market to the Competition and Markets Authority for further investigation.

By Matt Ashare • Oct. 5, 2023

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

What Cisco learned about Mac vs. PC in the enterprise

A year-long internal trial revealed MacBooks were less vulnerable to cyber threats than PCs, and less expensive over time, according to SVP and CIO Fletcher Previn.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 21, 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

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

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

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

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

Cloud market growth plateaus as hyperscalers anticipate AI boom

Global spend increased by $10 billion for the third consecutive quarter, with AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud retaining nearly two-thirds of the market, Synergy Research Group found.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 7, 2023

Oracle unveils secure cloud solution in bid for DoD contracts

The new infrastructure services are designed to ease critical workload migrations and comply with defense information systems security requirements.

By Matt Ashare • July 31, 2023

IBM sees Red Hat growth as model for its AI business

The tech company is banking on enterprise adoption of its newly introduced watsonx platform to advance its hybrid cloud strategy.

By Matt Ashare • July 20, 2023

Hyperscalers bet on costly new data centers to capture growing market

As cloud becomes ubiquitous, AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud are competing to expand their regional reach and localize services.

By Matt Ashare • July 14, 2023

On-prem data centers retain a shrinking foothold as cloud’s shadow looms

While capacity steadily migrates to massive CSPs, more than one-third of worldwide data and compute remains on-prem.

By Matt Ashare • July 14, 2023

PC shipments show signs of recovery as economic outlook improves

Enterprise demand for workstations and laptops bounced back in Q2 and may normalize by the end of the year, Gartner analysis shows.

By Matt Ashare • July 12, 2023