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.
A generation of cloud architects, developers, and systems engineers has stayed loyal to AWS over nearly two decades in part because of its reputation for supporting anything it launched that was used by a customer to build their infrastructure. That commitment appears to be changing.
Today: how a narrow miss on cloud growth raises questions about Microsoft's AI spending, why Nvidia wants AI-curious businesses to use its new managed deployment services, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: Lost in last months' discussions of open data formats was Hudi, but its tech will enable true format compatibility, Stack Overflow's annual developer survey, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Now that open data formats are here to stay, unifying them to remove incompatibilities will be a challenge. Delta Lake and Iceberg get all the attention, but tech developed by the creators of Hudi could make it happen.
Today: why security software customers should hold their vendors to a higher standard, the Wiz kids turn down Google, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
The shared-responsibility model is groaning under the weight of the modern security environment. Snowflake's ongoing nightmare should be a wake-up call for any infrastructure or SaaS provider that they need to do more to protect their customers, because the old model is no longer working.
Today: why the decades-old bargain that governed cloud security is showing its age, OpenAI thinks smaller is better, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Today: How AT&T might have limited the damage from a devastating breach, Google goes shopping for security talent, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: AWS outlines its vision of how generative AI tools could finally deliver on the promise of low-code development, Microsoft cuts a deal with its European cloud rivals, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Snowflake admins can now set stronger login security practices for their users, how the AI boom is forcing Google to acknowledge that carbon offsets don't work, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: why using generative AI to automate entry-level jobs could backfire, the ransomware part of the Snowflake data leak story is well underway, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
In an interview at the Data Cloud Summit, Ramaswamy described how enterprise customers are working with generative AI, outlined growth opportunities for Snowflake's future, and lamented the "insular" culture at Google that denied it the opportunity to lead the generative AI transition.
