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.
Today: why Microsoft is extending legal protections to its customers, the rise of LLMs that weren't trained primarily on English, and the quote of the week.
Today: the WebAssembly community gathers to discuss its progress and acknowledges there's a lot of work ahead, Microsoft explains how Chinese hackers got one of its encrypted keys, and this week in enterprise moves.
Today: why location will really matter over the next decade of cloud computing, the Snowflake/Databricks rivalry boils over, and this week in enterprise tech funding.
Today: why Microsoft will no longer force European customers to buy Microsoft Teams along with Office, AWS makes a rare decision to kill a service, and this week's enterprise moves.
Today: Google Cloud hosted its first in-person conference since before the pandemic, and guess what it talked about, ChatGPT comes to the enterprise, and this week in enterprise tech funding.
Today: why a proposed cybersecurity law in the U.K. is both ridiculous and terrifying, the campaign to fork HashiCorp's Terraform gets underway, and the quote of the week.
Today: Why Nvidia's Jensen Huang might be getting a little ahead of himself, Hugging Face makes cute with enterprise vendors, and this week's enterprise tech moves.
Today: why Microsoft added support for Python in Excel, the cloud-native community mourns the loss of an influential colleague, and the latest funding rounds raised by enterprise tech startups.
Today: how far will federal regulators go when urging tech companies to secure their services, SUSE takes the private equity exit ramp, and the quote of the week.
Today: new Redis CEO Rowan Trollope talks about old databases, new licensing strategies, and future IPO plans, why Supermicro thinks the server market is ready to double, and this week in enterprise moves.
Rowan Trollope started work as the new CEO of Redis earlier this year in February, arguably a low point for enterprise tech growth. Redis hasn't been immune to those trends, but it has also enjoyed the spoils of the generative AI hype cycle.
Today: how Intuit rebuilt the tech infrastructure that powers Tax Day on the cloud, how the Pentagon plans to manage the formidable cloud resources under construction by top vendors, and the latest funding rounds raised by enterprise tech startups.
