Marc Ferranti
Executive Editor, News
Marc Ferranti is the executive editor for news at Foundry's enterprise websites and is based in New York.
ChatGPT returns to Italy after OpenAI tweaks privacy disclosures, controls
OpenAI has relaunched ChatGPT in Italy after making changes requested by the country's data privacy regulator.
Dropbox lays off 16% of staff to refocus on AI, as sales growth slows
Dropbox is profitable but growth is slowing, just when it needs to ramp up AI expertise.
5G, IoT, SaaS to drive Netherlands data centre growth
Government initiatives and enterprise deployment of IoT, 5G, SaaS, and AI applications will fuel an increase in data centre investment, leading to additional cloud and hosting options for companies, according to an Arizton Advisory &...
IBM launches new availability zones worldwide for hybrid enterprise clouds
CIOs and data center managers who run large hybrid clouds worldwide have a greater chance of hearing IBM knock on their doors in the next few months.
Dell rallies channel to ride digital transformation wave
Dell Technologies is rolling out a broad range of new programs to get its channel partners more invested in the company's long-term effort to be the only IT vendor with a full set of integrated products, from the PC to the data...
Q&A: Dell EMC channel chief Joyce Mullen fuels drive to sell across lines of business
Joyce Mullen became president of Global Channel, OEM and IoT at Dell EMC in November, facing the task of figuring out ways to get the company's partners worldwide to sell across its lines of business and engage users with high-value...
Windows Server 19 embraces hybrid cloud, hyperconverged data centers, Linux
Microsoft is set to make Windows Server 2019 generally available in the second half of the year, opening up access to its preview build through its Insiders program now and targeting data centers with new features to handle hybrid...
FPGA maker Xilinx aims new software programmable chips at data centers
Xilinx, which for decades has vied with rival Altera (now part of Intel) for technical leadership in FPGAs, is unveiling what it calls a new product category – the Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) – that, it says, goes...
Oracle pitches autonomous capabilities for its entire cloud platform
Oracle is raising its bid to attract enterprises moving to the cloud by extending AI-based automation throughout its PaaS (platform as a service) offerings, claiming that the new automated services will cut costs and reduce...
Snowflake, now a unicorn, eyes global growth for cloud data warehouse
Fueled by a capital injection of $263 million making it the first cloud-native data warehouse startup to achieve "unicorn" status, Snowflake is set this year to expand its global footprint, offer cross-regional, data-sharing...
A year after Oracle buy, a focused NetSuite doubles down on verticals, midmarket
When Oracle first announced its agreement to acquire NetSuite, back in July 2016, there was widespread agreement in the tech industry that the deal could allow Oracle to serve a broader range of customers, including smaller...