Technology Optimization advises CIOs seeking to invest in innovation and strategic advantage while optimizing the cost of providing ongoing support.
New economic realities and shrinking IT budgets necessitate that IT organizations become better at justifying new projects, more efficient in delivering IT services, and smarter at adopting new technologies that can deliver business value while reducing costs.
Organizations must work together to optimize the cost reduction that funds innovation, and learn how to balance the needs of business with the responsibilities of IT. Is your organization ready for the shift to innovation? Have you developed a strategy to fund innovation with optimization?
Microsoft and Quantinuum said they have created 12 highly reliable logical qubits by combining Azure Quantum's qubit virtualization system to Quantinuum's H2 trapped-ion quantum computer. Microsoft also said it would work with Atom Computing to add a new quantum system to Azure Quantum.
Nuclear-powered data centers are on the horizon (and here in some cases), but deployments will take time and likely extend into 2026 or 2027. What's driving the nuclear data center concept? Generative AI workloads and an electricity grid that's currently under strain.
ServiceNow launched the Xanadu version of its Now Platform, which includes AI Agents that can autonomously perform tasks without human intervention, RaptorDB Pro, a new back-end database that improves performance, industry-specific features, and a new integrated development environment (IDE).
Oracle and Amazon Web Services announced a strategic partnership to complete CTO Larry Ellison's multicloud trifecta. Oracle first partnered with Microsoft Azure, then Google Cloud and now AWS. Oracle also delivered strong cloud revenue growth in the first quarter.
Broadcom reported better-than-expected third quarter results as revenue growth was driven by Ethernet networking and custom accelerators for AI data centers.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise said its third quarter was driven by AI systems as revenue was up 10% from a year ago.
Pricing for generative AI APIs, services from Google, Anthropic and OpenAI among others, are receiving deep discounts this year and generally trending downward.
MongoDB rebounded in the second quarter with better-than-expected results due to stronger Atlas consumption levels.
Dell Technologies saw a second quarter boom in its infrastructure solutions group (ISG) revenue due to strong server and networking demand. Dell shipped $3.1 billion in AI servers in the second quarter.
Nutanix is winning larger enterprise deals and looking to ride hyperconverged infrastructure partnerships with Cisco and Dell as it plays the long game against Broadcom's VMware.
