Salesforce drops the UI; DuckDB hits the lake
Today on Product Saturday: Salesforce might have the answer to SaaS sustainability in an AI world, DuckDB addresses the "small changes" problem in lakehouses, and the quote of the week.
Today: AWS and Google suggest that the next five years of AI infrastructure strategies won't look like the last five years, GitHub sheds a little more light on its recent uptime struggles, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today on Product Saturday: Anthropic may have found a way to deliver on the promise of agents, Oracle puts up a lakehouse, and the quote of the week.
Today: Nvidia makes a big deal with Intel to cement its interconnect technology in the data center, Microsoft dodges a scary security incident, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: What the first week of Q1 Big Tech earnings says about the enterprise market heading into the rest of the year, the creators of NATS are trying to pull off the old-fashioned "takesies-backsies" gambit with the CNCF, and the latest enterprise moves.
This year marked a turning point for enterprise tech as spending recovered and the economy stabilized following years of rising interest rates and supply-chain disruption. While no one knows what lies ahead, here are five things we thought summed up a pivotal year.
Today: A look back at some of the most notable developments from the past year and the last Runtime Roundup of 2024.
Despite recent challenges to their hegemony, x86 chips still power the vast majority of cloud and on-premises servers in use today. However, over all those years Intel and AMD tweaked x86 in subtle but incompatible ways to suit their own needs, and Tuesday's agreement is a promise to unify x86.
Welcome to Runtime! Today: Strange times make for strange bedfellows in chips, Google goes nuclear, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: Intel's badly needed new Xeon server processors, the most interesting launch from Cloudflare's birthday week, and the quote of the week.
Why AMD's $5 billion bet on data-center systems design could make Intel's problems worse, OpenAI brings fine-tuning to its most powerful enterprise model, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: why U.S. chip companies have invested billions in making Israel into an alternative chip-making powerhouse, Ampere and Qualcomm team up to tackle AI inference, and the latest enterprise moves.
Chip companies have invested billions in Israeli manufacturing and design facilities over the past decade, and they've continued that push over the last six months. A unique talent base and a rich history of tech innovation drew them in, but the region's instability looms over that decision.