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 business–process automation is changing thanks to generative AI, Adobe tries to thread the needle between AI serendipity and brand safety, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
RPA is reaching an inflection point as enterprises increasingly look to get more than just productivity gains from their previous investments, and AI enters the chat.
It's getting hard to understand why any company should consider using open-source software released under a traditional license by a venture-backed startup.
Welcome to Runtime! Today: why Redis's latest licensing move marks yet another break with longtime open-source practice, GitHub
Welcome to Runtime! Today: why tech came to a standstill Monday afternoon to watch Nvidia unveil its latest AI chip,
Today: Two data industry legends trot out a new idea for the server operating system, why Microsoft's security lapses could start a customer exodus, and the quote of the week.
Today: Fivetran CEO George Fraser's bet that data connectivity is more important than data residency, Microsoft joins the cloud breakup-fee party, and the latest enterprise moves.
"The more significant decision is, 'what is your strategy for centralizing the data?' Because these data platforms do not do that; they are the place that it gets centralized to, but they do not centralize anything."
