Cloud Computing

Learning for a living: How to succeed as an IT consultant

An IT consultant with decades of engagements across the enterprise told us how life as an independent contractor can make for a brilliant career – with a commitment to lifelong learning and building a supportive network.

By Matt Egan

Aug 11, 20255 mins

CareersIT LeadershipMicroservices

Hybrid Exchange environment vulnerability needs fast action

By Howard Solomon

Aug 7, 20251 min

Email SecurityHybrid CloudVulnerabilities

Having it all: How to be a technology expert and a business leader

By Matt Egan

Aug 4, 20255 mins

Cloud ComputingIT Leadership

Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice

By Evan Schuman

Jul 29, 20251 min

Cloud ComputingMicrosoftRisk Management

Why firewalls and VPN are bad for security

By Matt Egan

Jul 28, 20254 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingSecurity

Microsoft will stop using Chinese workers on US DoD systems

By Peter Sayer

Jul 22, 20251 min

Cloud ComputingCloud SecurityGovernment IT

Under CISPE pressure, Microsoft opens the door to fairer cloud competition in Europe

By Taryn Plumb

Jul 18, 20257 mins

Cloud ComputingMicrosoft

Microsoft OneDrive cheat sheet: Using OneDrive for Web

By Howard Wen

Jul 10, 202526 mins

MicrosoftMicrosoft 365OneDrive

Microsoft slashes prices 60% on genAI tech that understands audio, video, and text

By Agam Shah

Jul 8, 20254 mins

Generative AIMicrosoftMicrosoft Azure

Articles

Ingram Micro’s IT outage stretches into second day

The company’s website has been unavailable since Thursday, with customers venting their frustration on social media.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 4, 2025 2 mins

Cloud ComputingTechnology Industry

Microsoft announces Windows 365 Reserve: Backup cloud PCs for the enterprise

Soon to be in preview, Windows 365 Reserve will provide enterprise users with up to ten days of a preconfigured cloud PC per year to fill the gap when a physical machine is unavailable.

By Lynn Greiner

Jun 20, 2025 3 mins

Cloud ComputingWindows PCs

OpenAI’s MCP move tempts IT to trust genAI more than it should

Given that genAI hallucinates and ignores guardrails, do we really want it to have access and control apps from PayPal, Stripe, Shopify, Square, Slack, QuickBooks, Salesforce and GoogleDrive?

By Evan Schuman

Jun 16, 2025 4 mins

Cloud ComputingGenerative AI

Canalys: Companies limit genAI use due to unclear costs

The research firm believes generative AI's broader potential remains untapped because companies fear recurring cloud costs.

By Viktor Eriksson

Jun 16, 2025 1 min

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingGenerative AI

Cost optimization: How to get the most out of your DaaS investment

Watching the bottom line: An automated approach to provisioning AVD with Nerdio guarantees reliability across deployments, mitigating the risk of errors and ensuring a seamless user experience—all while protecting your investment.

By Pete Bartolik

Jul 22, 2024 4 mins

Cloud ComputingDigital Transformation

Download the ‘New Thinking about Cloud Computing’ Enterprise Spotlight

In this issue: Cloud computing is highly established, and IT’s view has shifted from understanding the concept to making the best use of it to solve both technology and business challenges. The time is ripe to step back and revisit your thinking about the cloud.

By InfoWorld and CIO.com staff

Jun 2, 2025 1 min

Cloud ComputingData CenterIT Strategy

Why enterprises should use small language models

Your weekly round-up of the questions asked by readers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World finds us saying small is beautiful when it comes to language models; learning about new features in Python; and setting a deadline for migration to S/4HANA.

By Matt Egan

Jun 2, 2025 3 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDeveloperGenerative AI

Microsoft cements its AI lead with one hosting service to rule them all

The company has found the ideal ‘heads-I-win-tails-I-also-win’ strategy for AI dominance.

By Preston Gralla

May 28, 2025 5 mins

Generative AIMicrosoftMicrosoft Azure

Why you should ditch the degree to succeed in IT

Your weekly round-up of the questions asked by readers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World explains why certification may be more valuable than a computer science degree, explores organizations are moving back to on-prem from the cloud, and explains why Python is so popular.

By Matt Egan

May 19, 2025 4 mins

CareersCertificationsDeveloper

Does agentic AI spell doom for SaaS?

The fear is that AI agents will kill off SaaS. Nothing could be further from the truth.

By Andy Patrizio

May 13, 2025 8 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AISaaS

How gen AI can make your business work faster — really

Your weekly round-up of the questions asked by readers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World explains how to use generative AI to accelerate business processes; how to earn extra in IT; and why organizations are choosing hybrid cloud to support AI.

By Matt Egan

May 12, 2025 3 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCareersGenerative AI

Amazon launches Nova Premier, its ‘most capable’ AI model yet

Featuring multimodal support and model distillation for training smaller AI models, the new Nova Premier signals a strategic shift by AWS in the enterprise market, analysts say.

By Mastufa Ahmed

May 2, 2025 3 mins

Amazon Web ServicesGenerative AI