This illustration picture shows debit and credit cards arranged on a desk on April 6, 2020 in … [+] Arlington, Virginia – As restaurants risk dramatic drops in sales or outright closure amid the COVID-19 pandemic, some businesses are encouraging customers to pay with credit or debit card, while others are introducing no cash policies…
Jesse Stockall is Chief Architect, Snow Software. Getty Amid rising cloud spend and constrained IT budgets, FinOps—the practice of managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure with a cross-functional team of IT, cloud, finance and engineering—has gained tremendous traction. While it’s beneficial for organizations taking stock of their growing cloud infrastructure, the new practice cannot optimize every…
In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, today’s leading enterprises are seeking ways to optimize their operations and enhance their security measures. Cloud costs and security are two critical aspects that every organization must carefully manage, and they are more closely intertwined than you might think. Recent VMware research reveals that 95% of organizations believe…
Cloud News Mark Haranas November 01, 2023, 02:00 PM EDT CRN provides a head-to-head comparison of AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft’s cloud revenue, sales growth, market share and more based off recent Q3 2023 earnings results. Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, the world’s three dominant…
Over the years, we’ve seen a bunch of attempts to bring cloud-like functionality to the private data center, from Mesosphere to OpenStack, along with lots of other hardware and software experiments that were developed with the idea of putting compute to work in a way that behaves like the cloud without having to rent from…
For the last four years, Steve Tuck and Bryan Cantrill have toiled in relative stealth mode with their startup Oxide Computer in a bid to remake hardware for the cloud computing era. On Oct. 26, Oxide emerged from stealth with a $44 million series A round of funding and an impressive new approach for cloud…
Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) reported third quarter earnings that topped consensus estimates while revenue edged by views. GOOGL stock fell Wednesday as cloud-computing sales growth in Q3 missed amid apparent market share loss to Microsoft (MSFT) amid a battle in artificial intelligence. X Reported after the market close on Tuesday, Google earnings for the quarter…
Microsoft on Tuesday reported strong sales in its latest quarter, showing that its corporate customers have been shaking off jitters about spending heavily in the uncertain economy. The results also showed early signs that the company’s investments in generative artificial intelligence were beginning to bolster sales, most notably reversing what had been slowing growth of…
