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.
Despite recent challenges to their hegemony, x86 chips still power the vast majority of cloud and on-premises servers in use today. However, over all those years Intel and AMD tweaked x86 in subtle but incompatible ways to suit their own needs, and Tuesday's agreement is a promise to unify x86.
Welcome to Runtime! Today: Strange times make for strange bedfellows in chips, Google goes nuclear, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: AMD takes on both Nvidia and Intel, Sierra unveils its first voice AI agent for contact centers, and the quote of the week.
Today: Zoom unveils its latest strategy to move beyond video meetings and become your work daily driver, the WordPress saga is getting even more heated, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Today: How the upcoming launch of Nvidia's Blackwell chips and the growth of upstart AI clouds could change how companies buy infrastructure, the discovery of a widespread telecom hack serves as a reminder that legal backdoors are problematic, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: CrowdStrike releases its root-cause analysis on last month's software update debacle, how a delay for Nvidia's next-generation chip will impact enterprise AI, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
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.
