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.
Snowflake will outline a plan to require all customers to use additional security protections "within the coming days" after a spate of high-profile security breaches involving customers that didn't take that step.
Today: Snowflake targets another layer of the data stack after embracing open formats, why hackers targeted Snowflake customers and stole a massive amount of data, and the latest funding in enterprise tech.
Today: how the rapid adoption of open-source storage formats is upending the Databricks/Snowflake rivalry, Salesforce warns that enterprise software is in for a slow summer, and the latest enterprise moves.
As Snowflake and Databricks gear up for back-to-back user conferences in early June, their customers are increasingly betting on open storage formats that give them new flexibility.
Today: why nuclear power has emerged as an intriguing option for cloud companies looking for new sources of energy, Google Cloud explains how it deleted a customer's infrastructure, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
The AI boom is pushing the limits of clean-energy sources, forcing utilities to push back on new data-center construction plans and keep their coal-fired plants running. A relatively small but fast-growing number of people believe the solution is nuclear power.
There are lots of companies interested in generative AI apps with money but limited skills. They'll need helpful platform tools to get up and running, and competition in this category could set the tone for the enterprise AI era.
Today: why experiments with enterprise AI apps are increasingly moving outside corporate walls, how a really weird glitch almost took down the internet, and this week's enterprise moves.
Microsoft is bent on installing Copilots into all of its services across Azure, Microsoft 365, and GitHub, which continues to enjoy the most visible success of Microsoft's AI kick.
Today: how Microsoft plans to turn its investments in OpenAI's generative AI technology into revenue, a newly discovered security flaw impacts just about everybody running a widely used piece of open-source software, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: why U.S. chip companies have invested billions in making Israel into an alternative chip-making powerhouse, Ampere and Qualcomm team up to tackle AI inference, and the latest enterprise moves.
Chip companies have invested billions in Israeli manufacturing and design facilities over the past decade, and they've continued that push over the last six months. A unique talent base and a rich history of tech innovation drew them in, but the region's instability looms over that decision.
