Happy New Year! Today: after years of hype and investment, enterprise generative AI applications are still awaiting their breakout moment, the data-center investment boom continues, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
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.
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.
A pullback in cloud spending and the AI boom put AWS and Adam Selipsky on a defensive footing during the last two years of his three-year run. Matt Garman's job will be to get AWS back on offense.
Today: AWS taps Matt Garman as CEO, the executive many expected to replace Andy Jassy three years ago, Google Cloud ramps up its TPUs and developer platform, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: As security threats skyrocket and regulations pile up, an already difficult job is getting harder, an Australian Google Cloud customer suffers an outage blamed on an "unprecedented sequence of events," and the latest enterprise moves.
Despite some recent gains by law enforcement, ransomware remains a pernicious problem for companies large and small. Here's how eight experts advise preparing for ransomware attacks.
DocuSign's service was built before the cloud, but last year it realized it needed to move to the cloud to handle data residency requirements and its plans for AI services.
