5 ways generative AI boosts cloud and IT operations
Anyone who thinks engineers, administrators, and analysts in IT operations have an easy job hasn’t spent enough time in their shoes. Automation, observability, and machine learning help IT operations deploy and manage many more large-scale and missi...
Why hasn’t cheaper hardware lowered cloud prices?
Public cloud providers have established themselves as the primary lifeline for modern enterprise IT, delivering unprecedented scalability, operational efficiency, and innovation. Despite all the advancements they’ve ushered in, businesses are notici...
Microsoft previews SignalR client for iOS
Microsoft has introduced a Swift client for its SignalR library for ASP.NET, allowing iOS developers to add real-time web functionality to their applications. SignalR Swift is a client library for connecting to SignalR servers from Swift applications...
AWS updates Amazon Bedrock’s Data Automation capability
AWS has updated the Data Automation capability inside its generative AI service Amazon Bedrock to further support the automation of generating insights from unstructured data and bring down the development time required for building applications under...
14 tiny tricks for big cloud savings
When the cost of cloud computing is listed in cents or even fractions of a cent, it’s hard to remember that even small numbers can add up to big bills. Yet they do, and every month it seems CFOs come close to dying of multiple heart attacks when the...
OpenSearch in 2025: Much more than an Elasticsearch fork
Open source has never been more popular. It’s also never been more contentious. With hundreds of billions of dollars available to the companies that best turn open source into easy-to-use cloud services, vendors have fiercely competed for enterprise...
Baidu hits the turbo button to get back into AI race
An industry analyst Friday offered a lukewarm response to a series of announcements from Chinese tech giant Baidu around upgrades to its multimodal foundation model, ERNIE 4.5, and reasoning model, ERNIE X1, first released last month. During his keyno...
Thesys introduces generative UI API for building AI apps
AI software builder Thesys has introduced C1 by Thesys, which the company describes as a generative UI API that uses large language models (LLMs) to generate user interfaces on the fly. Unveiled April 18, C1 by Thesys is available for general use. C1 ...
Hype versus execution in agentic AI
Agentic AI has captured the imagination of enterprises everywhere. It promises autonomous systems capable of reasoning, making decisions, and dynamically adapting to changing conditions. The allure lies in machines operating independently, free of hum...
Python and WebAssembly? Here’s how to make it work
Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld 6 languages you can deploy to WebAssembly right nowLearn how to deploy Python and five other languages to run on Wasm, along with the advantages and disadvantages of each language choice. Airgapped Python: Set...
Micro front ends on the Microsoft web platform
Breaking up monolithic code into clusters of services and microservices has been a good thing. It has allowed us to refactor our code and find the bottlenecks and blockers. In some cases, that’s led us back to new, streamlined monoliths, in other ca...
Microsoft touts AI Dev Gallery for Windows
Microsoft is championing its AI Dev Gallery, now available as an open source app intended to help Windows developers integrate AI capabilities within their own projects and apps. Initially announced as a project in December 2024, AI Dev Gallery was hi...
