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?
AWS re:Invent 2025 featured the usual firehose of news, announcements and tech talks, but it's also clear that AWS is becoming a different company. Yes, AWS is firmly committed to developers and dedicated to creating building blocks needed to scale agentic AI. But AWS is clearly more than an infrastructure company now. Yet it is not quite a software company either.
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AWS re:Invent marked a pivotal shift in the cloud giant's trajectory. Moving beyond its traditional focus on core compute primitives, AWS is aggressively "moving up the stack" to dominate applied AI, data strategy, and agentic frameworks.
AWS launched new Graviton5 based instances with 192 core per chip and a 5x larger cache as the company continues its custom processor cadence.
HPE's results were mixed by product line. For instance server revenue was down 5% to $4.5 billion. Networking revenue, boosted by the acquisition of Juniper Networks, was $2.8 billion, up 150% from a year ago. Hybrid cloud revenue was $1.2 billion, down 12% from a year ago.
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Amazon Web Services launched AWS AI Factories, said Trainium 3 was generally available and outlined plans for Trainium 4.
Amazon Web Services launched AWS Transform custom, which is a new agent to modernize the custom code that got you into your technical debt pickle in the first place.
Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud are making their clouds interoperable in a move that will be welcomed by multicloud enterprises.
SavATree, a landscape services company that operates across 40 US states, generated $1.5 million in returns by better engaging and training its frontline workers.
Dell Technologies saw record AI server orders in the third quarter and raised its fiscal 2026 AI shipment guidance to $25 billion, up 150% from a year ago.
An IBM executive said the company's steady and practical approach to quantum computing will win out over the bluster that's emerging from multiple vendors.
