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A digital skills gap signals a rebound in tech services spending SHARE Recent survey data from Enterprise Technology Research shows that enterprise tech spending is tracking with projected U.S. GDP growth at 6% to 7% this year. And many markers continue to point the way to a strong recovery including hiring trends and the loosening of frozen information technology project budgets. However, skills shortages are blocking progress at some companies, which bodes well for an increased reliance on external IT services. Moreover, while there’s much talk about the rotation...

SHARE UiPath Inc. is going public this coming week to become the next hot software company to stage an initial public offering. But it has had a long, strange trip to its IPO. How so? Well, the robotic process automation company, whose software mimics human interactions using software scripts or robots that execute human tasks in discrete steps, was started way back in 2005. But its culture is akin to a frenetic startup. The firm shunned conventions and, instead of focusing on a narrow geographic area to prove its product/market fit before it started to grow, it aggressively launched internat...

Moore’s Law is dead, right? Think again. Although the historical annual improvement of about 40% in central processing unit performance is slowing, the combination of CPUs packaged with alternative processors is improving at a rate of more than 100% per annum. These unprecedented and massive improvements in processing power combined with data and artificial intelligence will completely change the way we think about designing hardware, writing software and applying technology to businesses. Every industry will be disrupted. You hear that all the time. Well, it’s absolutely true and we’re...

CLOUD Satya Nadella lays out a vision at Ignite 2021: What it means for Microsoft and the cloud SHARE Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Satya Nadella sees a different future for cloud computing over the coming decade. In his Microsoft Ignite keynote this past week, Nadella (pictured) laid out the five attributes that will define the cloud in the next 10 years. His vision is a cloud platform that is decentralized, ubiquitous, intelligent, sensing and trusted. It’s one that actually titillates the senses and levels the playing field between consumers...

SHARE Software-as-a-service companies have been some of the strongest performers during this COVID-19 era. They finally took a bit of a breather this month but remain generally well-positioned for the next several years with their predictable revenue models and cloud-based offerings. Meanwhile, the demise of on-premises data center legacy players from COVID shock seems to have been overstated, in part because of the return of the laptop and, in the case of Oracle Corp., what some see as a cloud play. In this Breaking Analysis, we’ll pick out a few of the more recent themes from this month a...