Dragging the mainframe into the AI era
Today: IBM and Arm strike a partnership to keep customers on mainframes as AI coding agents circle a modernization opportunity, Google drops a new open model, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today on Product Saturday: Google releases a tool to prevent Salesforce leaks, MongoDB's Voyage AI acquisition bears fruit, and the quote of the week.
Today: Anthropic and Salesforce roll out slightly different takes on the future of work with AI agents, Microsoft vows to limit the local impact of data-center construction as pushback starts to grow, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: F5's disclosure that hackers had "long term" access to its systems is just the latest sign that the federal government is focused on the wrong problems, Salesforce does damage control on behalf of its CEO, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: How Salesforce hopes to start generating real revenue from AI agents, why the merger of Fivetran and dbt Labs signals the end of an era in data infrastructure, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today on Product Saturday: six months after ServiceNow launched a product taking on Salesforce's core market, the "ohana" strikes back, Zuora sees big changes coming to SaaS pricing, and the quote of the week.
Today: The latest in the long-running saga of enterprise tech marketing departments trying and failing to look cool, Oracle customers are receiving extortion attempts after a breach, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Why generative AI technology presents an opportunity for app developers to move beyond a decades-old standard for app design, the Trump administration is thinking about throwing out years of work on enterprise software contracts, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Ahead of this year's Snowflake/Databricks annual events, a look at the push to unify Delta Lake and Iceberg, Salesforce snaps up Informatica, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today on Product Saturday: Red Hat leads a consortium of companies working on an open-source AI inference framework, Google makes Gemini Code Assist generally available, and the quote of the week.
Today: Salesforce announces a new version of its Agentforce platform while Microsoft wades into CRM, CoreWeave's biggest customer might be having second thoughts, and the latest enterprise moves.
Why Salesforce is going to have to wait a lot longer than it expected for the agentic AI revolution, Nvidia, meanwhile, still can't make enough GPUs, and the latest enterprise moves.
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.