Whether due to existing legacy investments, divisional or regional nuances, or acquisition and divestiture activity, heterogeneity will remain in most IT environments. At one point, the benefits of public cloud made organizations consider a homogeneous, fully cloud-based IT delivery strategy, but those visions have faded for most. The challenge — and goal — is to embrace the hybrid heterogeneous approach and find the best way to integrate, manage and optimize services across these diverse sets of delivery methods and assets. Colocation data centers play a critical role for customers, offering a hybrid approach to facilities and in the interconnection of cloud and on-premises services.

A deep dive into Informatica’s ChatGTP for enterprise data, CLAIRE GTP, and how the vendor is using GenAI to improve underlying platform capabilities and deliver a unified natural language experience in IDMC.

While in some ways waiting for the hyperscalers’ and subsequent customer investments in GenAI to materialize, MongoDB is actively developing and integrating with partners, recognizing that over time, it stands to benefit as customers look for a neutral platform to develop a new set of modern, disruptive applications.

Microsoft Fabric, a new end-to-end SaaS-like data platform, will help Microsoft change the PaaS landscape and could help Microsoft reach new audiences and spur Azure growth in the continued race for cloud and AI dominance.