As mainframes turn 60, skill gaps threaten the enterprise workhorse

“Great technology doesn't really go away — it finds the niche that it was made for,” Forrester Senior Analyst Brent Ellis said.

By Matt Ashare • Updated April 12, 2024

Hyperscaler data center expansions ignite AI server market boom

As LLM technologies proliferated, GPUs surpassed CPUs in revenue for the first time last year, according to Dell’Oro research.

By Matt Ashare • March 28, 2024

Nvidia lures all 4 major cloud hyperscalers with Blackwell ‘superchip’

AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Oracle will embed the chipmaker’s new GPU processors, which experts say is critical for AI infrastructure

By Matt Ashare • March 20, 2024

Microsoft joins AWS, Google Cloud on path to free data egress

Azure is the latest platform to lower the cost of switching cloud vendors.

By Matt Ashare • March 14, 2024

Oracle surpasses major cloud threshold, pours $10B into data center expansions

“This quarter marks the first time our total cloud revenue is more than our total license support revenue," CEO Safra Catz said. "We have crossed over."

By Matt Ashare • March 12, 2024

Costs, not security, worry enterprise leaders most as cloud estates multiply

Optimizing spend surpassed security among enterprise concerns, Flexera’s annual survey found.

By Matt Ashare • March 12, 2024

Nvidia, HP give data science a GPU boost

The two tech companies will infuse enterprise AI workstations with GPU-powered data processing and model building software.

By Matt Ashare • March 8, 2024

Legacy tech is still popping up as a cost-control barrier

Flagging infrastructure blocks companies from quickly adapting to shifting business conditions, a Deloitte report found.

By Roberto Torres • March 5, 2024

Dell says on-prem is the future of AI

“AI tracks to where the data is created, which is on-prem or out at the edge of the network," said COO Jeff Clarke.

By Matt Ashare • March 1, 2024

Kubernetes cloud costs spike as overprovisioning persists

Despite optimization efforts, enterprises regularly buy more compute than needed to run containerized workloads, according to a Cast AI analysis.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 28, 2024

Nvidia ramps up GPU production to fuel AI data center revolution

The chipmaker expects demand to outpace supply through the year. “We’ll do our best,” CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 22, 2024

Why enterprises neglect billions in cloud savings

ProsperOps analyzed $1.5 billion in AWS compute spend and found that most organizations fail to take advantage of built-in discounts.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 20, 2024

Nvidia pilots Chat with RTX demo in conversational AI push

The company aims to entice security-conscious enterprises by processing sensitive data without sharing it with a third party.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Feb. 13, 2024

Mainframes solidify hold on core enterprise systems

On-premises compute survived the rush to cloud and isn’t going away any time soon, according to Advanced.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 12, 2024

AI-enabled PCs to infiltrate enterprise IT this year

Laptops and desktops with enhanced processing power will account for nearly one-quarter of shipments in 2024, as manufacturers ramp up production.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 9, 2024

EY, Dell tackle industry-tailored edge computing

The two companies launched an initiative to create industry-specific capabilities through integrations of the EY.ai and Dell NativeEdge software platforms.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 7, 2024

Enterprise cloud spend jumped in Q4, nudged upward by AI

The power balance among AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud shifted slightly as infrastructure services saw the largest ever quarter-over-quarter market expansion recorded by Synergy Research Group.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 5, 2024

AWS expands cloud footprint, extends useful life of servers

Amazon saw cloud segment revenue grow to more than $90 billion in 2023, as customers began easing cost optimization efforts.

By Matt Ashare • Feb. 2, 2024

Microsoft, Google build out cloud capacity as AI powers consumption

Both hyperscalers expect to increase data center infrastructure investments this year to meet growing customer demand for AI computing.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 31, 2024

IBM leans hard on consulting, governance to drive AI business

“Just as we quickly ramped a meaningful practice around Red Hat to address the hybrid cloud opportunity, we are on a similar trajectory with generative AI,” CEO Arvind Krishna said.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 25, 2024

IT teams grapple with AI data complexity

Skills gaps, compliance issues and siloed data slow enterprise modernization as generative AI adoption puts infrastructure to the test.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 23, 2024

Can FinOps save cloud from itself in 2024?

Mistakes were made. Budgets ballooned. Repatriations commenced. Now, enterprises are learning from costly migrations.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 22, 2024

IBM buys Advanced’s mainframe modernization unit to deepen consulting bench

The deal also bolsters IBM’s broader hybrid cloud strategy, complementing the application refactoring capabilities of watsonx Code Assistant for Z.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 19, 2024

PC price hikes loom as enterprises enter device refresh cycle

The market declined nearly 15% in 2023, but Gartner expects sustained positive growth lies ahead.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 18, 2024

Nvidia unveils laptop AI chip, developer toolkit

The GPU manufacturer is expanding its enterprise IT ambitions and portfolio as the race to deploy LLMs closer to the business user intensifies.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 10, 2024