TL;DRFive Guys operates roughly 1,700 locations selling about 2,000 burgers each per day, generating tens of millions of payment transactions whose data hops emit an estimated 0.7 to 4 grams...
TL;DRGlobal spending on cloud infrastructure surpassed on-premises data centers for the first time in 2020, per IDC.Connected IoT devices exceeded 15 billion in 2023, per IoT Analytics, driving data processing...
Together AI closed a $106 million funding round led by Salesforce Ventures. The round values the two-year-old startup at $1.25 billion and pushes total disclosed backing past $228 million. The...
In September 2022, a mid-sized retailer with 200 stores ran a big data project on a cloud data warehouse and found that its inventory turnover improved by 14 percent within...
Google Cloud launched its Contact Center AI Platform in July 2021. The product injects AI services into a live contact center rather than replacing the underlying stack. As of early...
Amazon Web Services fired up the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region in the last month of 2021. It opened three Availability Zones across Greater Jakarta and pledged to spend roughly $5...
Amazon Web Services finished rolling out 32 new Local Zones across 26 countries. The first zones opened in 2022, the rest followed through 2023 and 2024, and the service is...
In August 2023, Amazon Web Services launched the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region, designated with the API code il-central-1. The region opened with three Availability Zones, making it the first hyperscale...
In September 2021, Microsoft Corporation took a minority equity stake in OYO Hotels & Homes, the Indian hospitality chain founded by Ritesh Agarwal. The transaction closed as announced. OYO's planned...
Accenture acquired CS Technology, a technology services firm, to strengthen its cloud services portfolio. The deal folded CS Technology's team and customer base into Accenture's operations as of March 2024....
Co-op, the British grocer owned by millions of members rather than shareholders, is rolling out Microsoft Azure, Power BI and artificial intelligence tools across its 2,500 UK locations. The partnership...
BeekeeperAI, a healthcare technology company, entered a collaboration with Microsoft to use Azure confidential computing services for artificial intelligence development on protected health information. The arrangement lets hospitals and research...
