Carmakers rev up AI efforts amid economic uncertainty | CIO Dive
Ford, General Motors and Toyota pursue use cases to enhance customer experience, optimize costs and drive profits, executives said in their latest financial reports.| CIO Dive
The vendor doubled the number of paying customers for its agentic AI platform in six months, executives said during a Wednesday earnings call.| CIO Dive - Latest News
“We have shipped more AI servers in the first half of this year than all of last,” Dell COO Jeff Clarke said during an earnings call last week.| CIO Dive - Latest News
The multinational hospitality giant is building a model-agnostic chassis featuring an agentic layer.| CIO Dive - Latest News
Nearly three-quarters of CIOs and CISOs see information complexity as an adoption roadblock, according to a Ponemon Institute study commissioned by OpenText.| CIO Dive - Latest News
No matter why older IT systems are still around, companies need to protect stacks and devices before they become a vector for attacks.| CIO Dive - Latest News
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The ERP will expand access to its software through infrastructure services running in SAP data centers in Europe and to on-premises estates.| CIO Dive - Latest News
More than 1 in 4 customer experience leaders say their organization is ready to deploy agentic AI, despite having no governance policy, Genesys found.| CIO Dive - Latest News
Ford, General Motors and Toyota pursue use cases to enhance customer experience, optimize costs and drive profits, executives said in their latest financial reports.| CIO Dive
The automaker tapped Barak Turovsky, former VP of AI at Cisco, to guide its AI deployment efforts.| CIO Dive
The generative AI early adopter has worked to improve data management as it aims for better model accuracy and performance to bolster decision-making.| CIO Dive
The car manufacturer has more than 1,200 AI applications for software development and improving quality control, among other use cases.| CIO Dive
Analytics can play a role in shaping mid- to long-term strategies that carries businesses past the crisis.| CIO Dive
The company leveraged a one-cloud strategy to bring Radisson Hotels Americas' systems into the tech stack in less than a year, CIO Brian Kirkland said.| CIO Dive
The medical center's CIO and CISO teamed up to translate security decisions into dollars and cents.| CIO Dive
Optimizing spend surpassed security among enterprise concerns, Flexera’s annual survey found.| CIO Dive
The research firm expects rapid advancement in AI technologies to double the market’s size by 2028.| CIO Dive
Mistakes were made. Budgets ballooned. Repatriations commenced. Now, enterprises are learning from costly migrations.| CIO Dive
Microsoft's licensing terms restrict European customers from migrating workloads to competing platforms, Google told the European Commission.| CIO Dive
The hyperscaler rolled out an agent interoperability protocol that already has buy-in from Accenture, Deloitte and KPMG, Wednesday at Google Cloud Next.| CIO Dive
“While we're investing a significant amount in the AI space and in infrastructure, we would like to have more capacity than we already have today,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said.| CIO Dive
Microsoft, IBM and Cisco are among the vendors backing the OASIS Data Provenance Standards Technical Committee announced last week.| CIO Dive
The Frontier AI Safety Commitments unveiled Tuesday in Seoul outline a series of voluntary steps to mitigate risk associated with AI systems.| CIO Dive
CIOs and their businesses, from PepsiCo to Principal Financial Group, are sifting through the noise and establishing guardrails to speed up time to value.| CIO Dive
Citi and Morgan Stanley joined forces with AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud to set open-source controls for secure AI adoption in the financial industry.| CIO Dive
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and other industry giants are reaping efficiency rewards and attracting tech talent simply by sharing code.| CIO Dive
A software validation framework helps the bank accelerate compliance and security reviews. Last week, it released the tool through FINOS.| CIO Dive
John Lukas transformed RaceTrac’s store technology infrastructure, revamped its loyalty app and spearheaded the IT integration of RaceTrac’s 2023 acquisition of Gulf Oil during his tenure.| CIO Dive
Nearly 1 in 3 IT professionals said they might leave the industry altogether as AI screening tools muddy the hiring process, a Dice survey found.| CIO Dive
Enterprise AI workloads and OpenAI training consumed Azure resources last year. “We have been short power and space,” CFO Amy Hood said.| CIO Dive
Overall SaaS spending fell year over year, but shadow IT overspend and app redundancies persisted, Zylo research found.| CIO Dive
Organizations pour far more into SaaS than what shows up on the books once the dollar value of time spent on contracts is factored in, according to Vertice.| CIO Dive
Though China was not mentioned once, it loomed large over the executive order.| CIO Dive
The plan will feature a data center campus in Wisconsin, upskilling targets and an AI innovation lab focusing on manufacturers, the tech company said.| CIO Dive
“The pressure is on — this is no longer the experimental phase of the cloud,” Alistair Speirs, director of Azure global infrastructure, said.| CIO Dive
Data centers “don’t get built overnight,” CEO Satya Nadella said Wednesday during the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call.| CIO Dive
Amazon, Google and Microsoft accounted for more than three-quarters of infrastructure capital expenditures in Q3 2024, according to Dell’Oro Group.| CIO Dive
The hyperscaler removed charges for customers migrating data to another cloud provider or on-prem.| CIO Dive
The largest hyperscaler is the latest provider to waive egress fees, following a similar announcement by Google Cloud in January.| CIO Dive
The share of businesses scrapping most of their AI initiatives increased to 42% this year, up from 17% last year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.| CIO Dive
Executives credit increased AI use over the past year for bringing an estimated 44% bump in revenue, according to a GitLab report published Tuesday.| CIO Dive
Nearly two-thirds of senior leaders anticipate more rigid data privacy requirements, according to a KPMG survey.| CIO Dive
The software vendor announced a slate of updates to its native automation features, allowing users to create custom workflows or choose from templates.| CIO Dive
Tech debt and a lack of AI-readiness threaten progress as Gartner warns about short-term disillusionment ahead.| CIO Dive
Amazon Q Apps can turn natural language prompts into applications, the company said.| CIO Dive
The company cited AI demand as a driver of enterprise cloud consumption, a clear trend among large vendors.| CIO Dive
The Agentforce platform, which will publicly launch in October, has found success among early adopters, CEO Marc Benioff said.| CIO Dive
Despite the hype, the technology is often not the most cost-effective, reliable or efficient tool for enterprises to use, according to Gartner’s Rita Sallam.| CIO Dive
The analyst firm expects tech spending to reach $5.74 trillion next year, driven in part by exponential growth in server sales.| CIO Dive
AI maturity varies, but IT, risk management and logistics were the most common adoption routes, according to the survey.| CIO Dive
The enterprise technology vendor said its autonomous agents can resolve disputes and streamline financial processes.| CIO Dive
The company also unveiled 10 autonomous agents within Dynamics 365, targeting sales, customer service and supply chain functions.| CIO Dive
Just 2% of board members are highly knowledgeable or experienced in AI, according to a Deloitte survey.| CIO Dive
“Cost is as big an AI risk as security,” Mary Mesaglio, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, said during a conference keynote Monday.| CIO Dive
The ERP software giant is counting on longstanding hyperscaler partnerships to keep customer costs down as economic uncertainty looms.| CIO Dive
The ERP giant rolled out its SAP Business Data Cloud platform along with four Joule copilot agents Thursday.| CIO Dive
The company aims to double its capacity this year as demand for AI compute “continues to dramatically outstrip supply,” Oracle CEO Safra Catz said Monday.| CIO Dive
“We are working hard across all of the teams — hardware, software, even the build teams — to get things in place as quickly as possible,” CFO Amy Hood said Wednesday.| CIO Dive
The largest hyperscaler poured billions into cloud capacity during Q1 to meet rising AI demand, CEO Andy Jassy said.| CIO Dive
Businesses should assess existing practices, then engage leadership and plot a path forward to get enterprise data structures in shipshape.| CIO Dive
The software provider will waive fees on Trailhead platform courses and stand up an AI training hub at its San Francisco headquarters.| CIO Dive
Tech workers who are competent in the nascent technology can expect average salaries of more than $174,000, according to the company.| CIO Dive
Executive appointments focused on AI reflect an intention to invest in the technology, West Monroe’s Casey Foss said.| CIO Dive
Despite the uptick, unemployment rose month-over-month, a potential sign that technologists restarted their search in the new year, according to CompTIA.| CIO Dive
Enterprises kept looking for ways to optimize cloud spend in Q4 as economic conditions worsened, Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky said during Thursday’s earnings call.| CIO Dive
The tire manufacturer saw costs decrease 44% after moving 450 applications to an in-house platform.| CIO Dive
The CRM provider emphasized visibility and scalable controls as it announced upgrades to its agentic AI platform.| CIO Dive
Digital services revenues grew 13% in 2024, as cloud, SaaS and AI platform consumption fueled data center investments, according to Synergy Research Group.| CIO Dive
Digital entities, including bots and agents, pose a growing cybersecurity risk for enterprises, researchers found.| CIO Dive
Despite identifying areas of concern, nearly all companies plan to expand agentic use in the next 12 months, a Cloudera report found.| CIO Dive
Gartner expects global tech spend to increase nearly 10% globally to more than $5.6 trillion in 2025, due largely to generative AI hardware upgrades.| CIO Dive
As enterprises brace for ballooning AI spend, the pressure’s on to squeeze the most out of commitment-based discounts and existing deployments.| CIO Dive
“What started organically had ballooned to hundreds of millions of dollars in spend,” Akamai CIO Kate Prouty said.| CIO Dive
The food and beverage company focuses on "four or five big bets" and provides an internal sandbox for employee experimentation, said Athina Kanioura, EVP, chief strategy and transformation officer.| CIO Dive
“From a FinOps perspective, you're never done — no matter how great you think you are, there’s more to do tomorrow,” PepsiCo IT Senior Director Kimberly Floss said.| CIO Dive
The majority of the spending will target technical infrastructure, including servers and data centers, CFO Anat Ashkenazi said Tuesday.| CIO Dive
The number of organizations that paid $10 million-plus on vendor audits over the last three years nearly doubled since 2023, according to Flexera.| CIO Dive
AI agents could interact with enterprise employees and customers to assist with purchases and accelerate issue resolution, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.| CIO Dive
The tech giant will funnel more than half of the investments into U.S.-based facilities, Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said Friday.| CIO Dive
Azure is the latest platform to lower the cost of switching cloud vendors.| CIO Dive
The consulting professional services company will add 40,000 AI-skilled employees through hiring, acquisition and training, an investment plan that comes just months after the firm announced layoffs impacting 19,000 people.| CIO Dive
Compensation for IT workers failed to keep up with inflation last year, increasing 1.2% last year, according to Dice data.| CIO Dive
A set of new AI features is arriving to the platform, letting users more easily catch up on missed messages and find information.| CIO Dive
Tech pros said the most common use case for the technology is IT service desk automation, according to a Tray.ai report.| CIO Dive
“Customers would love an ‘easy button’ to get off of Windows,” AWS CEO Matt Garman said Tuesday.| CIO Dive
The vendor added capabilities to ease AI agent development and strengthened security controls.| CIO Dive
The provider is the latest to join a year-end push to spur adoption with new models and features.| CIO Dive
Technology leaders can expect AI to continue to raise questions around workforce shifts, privacy procedures and security techniques.| CIO Dive
The cloud giant joins more than 50 technology partners that are supporting the Agent2Agent standard, including Salesforce, Oracle and SAP.| CIO Dive
The snack and beverage maker plans to migrate workloads, leverage Amazon Bedrock and improve real-time insights as part of a multiyear partnership.| CIO Dive
“We're at a tipping point where cloud data and data products are becoming essential infrastructure for the AI era,” Domo SVP of Product Ben Schein said.| CIO Dive
AI, data and cloud rank highest among in-demand skills, according to Revature data.| CIO Dive
Interest in prompt engineering and generative AI training grew exponentially last year, according to the company.| CIO Dive
“The uncertainty level is already creating fertile ground for cutbacks,” IDC’s Stephen Minton said, hours before the White House announced a 90-day pause.| CIO Dive
Executives plan to focus on security and automation as strategic priorities this year, but more than three-quarters grapple with skills gaps.| CIO Dive
As companies continue to invest in cloud, many still haven’t taken advantage of savings opportunities offered by CSPs, Flexera found.| CIO Dive
IT positions contracted in March, but unemployment also fell slightly month over month as employers brace for uncertain economic conditions, according to CompTIA.| CIO Dive
Unpredictable cloud bills, outdated software licenses and shadow IT frustrate FinOps efforts, according to Apptio.| CIO Dive
“Companies understand they need to do FinOps,” FinOps Foundation Executive Director J.R. Storment said. “The big ones — the mature ones — have gotten good at it.”| CIO Dive
FinOps tracking has helped IT leaders identify applications better suited for on-prem environments, according to Flexera.| CIO Dive
