This year marked a turning point for enterprise tech as spending recovered and the economy stabilized following years of rising interest rates and supply-chain disruption. While no one knows what lies ahead, here are five things we thought summed up a pivotal year.
Today: A look back at some of the most notable developments from the past year and the last Runtime Roundup of 2024.
Today: Salesforce continues its agentic AI push, Databricks secures one of the biggest funding rounds in tech history, and the rest of this week's enterprise funding.
"The more significant decision is, 'what is your strategy for centralizing the data?' Because these data platforms do not do that; they are the place that it gets centralized to, but they do not centralize anything."
Today: Zoom is increasing the use of its own infrastructure after relying on the cloud during the pandemic, Databricks says it is growing faster than its larger rival, and this week's enterprise moves.
Today: AI2 COO Sophie Lebrecht on the importance of true open-source generative AI models, AWS chooses the nuclear option, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
The most important issue in AI is a lack of open models that could allow researchers — who know surprisingly little about how the generative AI craze that upended the tech industry actually works — to set the parameters of the larger discussions around AI regulation.
Today: Open-source enterprise software is entering a new era and nobody feels particularly comfortable about it, Kubernetes users are probably wasting a lot of money, and the quote of the week.
Today: why some companies fail to do the work needed to implement agile software practices, a changing of the guard at Snowflake, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
The premise behind the Agile Manifesto is that developers, the users they serve, and business stakeholders all benefit by working together. But too often, organizations are faking true change by plastering a new label on older software development practices.
Today: why global companies rolling out new security policies need to make sure their end users understand what they're trying to say, Microsoft hooks up with Mistral, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Global teams across an enterprise are likely to speak different languages, of course, but also might be using different keyboard layouts with different characters. Those differences can lead to confusion about password requirements that could hinder collaboration and even compromise security.
Increasingly, in-house technology leaders are tasked with the seemingly impossible mandate of reaping the benefits of next-generation systems while simultaneously reducing legacy technical debt and costs and managing risk.
Today: Snyk's CEO explains how even the security market is prone to slowdowns, Nvidia isn't slowing down for anyone, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
"When you have way too many companies chasing way too few opportunities, you go through a cycle like this and only the best will survive." McKay thinks Snyk has found a path forward.
