Cloud Computing

Allianz ditches mainframe for scale and innovation

Germany's largest insurer has jettisoned its mainframes in favor of Linux for its core applications and petabyte database. Allianz Technology CTO Axel Schell and team lead Sebastian Pongratz explain how ‘one of the riskiest and most diffic

Oracle first to open a cloud region in Serbia

Oracle will offer over 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services and applications in the new region near Kragujevac, which Serbia intends to make into a tech hub.

General Dynamics IT takes multicloud strategy to the next level

Having closed its last data center, the aerospace and defense contractor’s IT division is delving deeper into cloud-native applications to optimize performance, scalability, and costs in the cloud.

Fraport goes all in on private 5G network

To drive digitalization, Frankfurt Airport will have one of the largest private 5G networks in Europe to help consolidate its communications infrastructure.

Skandia’s CIO drops ‘lift and shift’ to spur consolidation

Swedish financial services corporation Skandia is steadily consolidating. The key challenge for Johan Clausén, however, is tackling the complexity of the systems and business logic, rather than the old technology itself.

AWS shifts focus to LLMs, generative AI as growth continues to taper

Amazon’s cloud computing division reported 16% growth in Q1, slowing from the 20% growth that the company posted in the previous sequential quarter.

Google Cloud posts first-ever operating profit despite slowing growth

Alphabet’s cloud division has reported an operating income of $191 million for the quarter ended March, while revenue grew 28% year-on-year.

UC Riverside turns to cloud to supercharge scientific research

The university’s cloud transformation, undertaken in partnership with Google Public Sector, aims to empower a wide range of computing constituencies, from administrators to quantum engineering researchers.

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Toyota pushes IT automation into overdrive

Toyota Motor North America is shifting its automation agenda into high gear with a range of tools centered on the cloud as part of a strategy to reap savings and evolve toward data-informed operations.