Even companies eager to jump on the GenAI bandwagon have struggled to organize their data and get past deployment hurdles, and nobody likes to spend all that time, effort, and money to build technology that can't be shipped because it can't be trusted.
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: Open-source enterprise software is entering a new era and nobody feels particularly comfortable about it, Kubernetes users are probably wasting a lot of money, and the quote of the week.
Today: why some companies fail to do the work needed to implement agile software practices, a changing of the guard at Snowflake, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Today: How Expedia balances the tech needs of its consumer travel business and B2B customers, Cisco takes a step back, and the latest enterprise moves.
Like many companies that have grown through acquisitions over the years, Rajesh Naidu's job involves integrating those acquisitions onto a common tech stack, which requires taking a hard look at the SaaS applications used by those companies.
Today: why a shakeup in the fast-growing observability market could be underway as businesses start to think differently about data, the early returns for Microsoft Copilot are in, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
The rise of OpenTelemetry coupled with the separation of application data from observability tools could shake up this fast-growing market right as more companies realize they need help managing their cloud apps.
Today: Google rolls out its most powerful LLM to date, U.S. companies form a task force to endlessly debate AI risks, and this week's enterprise moves.
Today: Why Weaveworks' decision to shut down could be a canary in the coal mine for a generation of enterprise tech startups, HPE detected another breach, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: why Microsoft's decision to make Satya Nadella CEO ten years ago this weekend changed the direction of one of America's most iconic tech companies, how Cloudflare got hacked and kept the receipts, and the quote of the week.
Today: AWS growth ticks up a fraction for the first time in a while, CISA issues an "unprecedented" warning to government agencies, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Today: Microsoft and Google Cloud turn in their quarterly report cards, Blackstone's plan to become a data-center giant, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: a new study examines the factors that really separate productive software organizations, Microsoft releases more details on the breach of its systems, and the quote of the week.
