Opinion

AI’s problems aren’t what you think

When it comes ot AI, the biggest challenge isn't job loss — it's controlling AI sprawl and ensuring every deployment delivers measurable business value.

By Rob Lowe

Jul 20, 20267 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDigital TransformationIT Leadership

With AI, activity is not value

By Howard Rubin

Jul 20, 20267 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT StrategyROI and Metrics

Building the network for agentic AI: The foundation for autonomous enterprise operations

By Ed Fox

Jul 20, 20267 mins

Artificial IntelligenceEnterprise ArchitectureNetworking

Why technology leaders are losing the AI conversation to the people who report to them

By Scott Smeester

Jul 17, 20268 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT LeadershipStaff Management

AI makes its case against the ‘business-savvy CIO’

By Bob Lewis

Jul 17, 20266 mins

Artificial IntelligenceBusiness IT AlignmentIT Leadership

Flash pricing — the elephant in the room for enterprise storage

The all-flash storage dream is dead. AI datasets and supply chain chaos have shattered the pricing myth, proving that you still need cheap HDDs to scale.

By Ken Claffey

Jun 17, 2026 4 mins

Enterprise Storage Flash Storage Technology Industry

Who owns the control plane? Google Cloud Next 2026 and the real contest in agentic AI

The AI race isn’t about models anymore — it’s about who controls the data context. To avoid massive vendor lock-in, you need to own your system’s ontology.

By Dion Eusepi

Jun 17, 2026 13 mins

Enterprise Architecture Google Cloud Next Google Cloud Platform

AI found 2,000 vulnerabilities in 7 weeks. We’ve patched almost none of them

AI is finding and exploiting security bugs so fast that our usual patching and defense methods just can’t keep up anymore.

By Hal Lonas

Jun 16, 2026 6 mins

Identity and Access Management Security Software Threat and Vulnerability Management

Beyond the ERP system: The autonomous value chain

No amount of continuous improvement can save legacy ERP systems that rely on humans acting as middleware to shuffle data and spreadsheets.

By Jason Brady

Jun 16, 2026 9 mins

Enterprise Applications IT Leadership Process Improvement

A personal journey to the next era of 10X

We’re moving past simple AI coding into a world where anyone can turn an idea into an app just by describing it conversationally.

By Burley Kawasaki

Jun 16, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technology Innovation

AI is reducing leadership to simply managing work

Remember those leadership seminars you attended? Forget them. Managerial tasks rule the day when employee and software can no longer be distinguished.

By Bob Lewis

Jun 16, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership IT Management

PE value creation now depends on technology capability

Tech is no longer just the plumbing for businesses; private equity firms now look at digital capability and AI to directly drive value and boost exit prices.

By Rebecca Fox

Jun 16, 2026 9 mins

IT Strategy Markets Technology Industry

Universal semantic layers: critical infrastructure or the next data fabric?

Every major data platform now ships a USL for enterprise AI, but standards are unsettled and most only work inside their own walls. How should CIOs avoid picking a winner too early?

By Martin De Saulles

Jun 15, 2026 5 mins

C-Suite CIO Data Quality

Tokenomics in enterprise AI

Think of tokenomics as a cloud budget for AI; it stops your team from accidentally racking up massive bills on giant prompts and oversized model responses.

By Magesh Kasthuri

Jun 15, 2026 16 mins

Artificial Intelligence Budgeting IT Management

AI is becoming a dirty word

People in general, and young people in particular, have an increasingly negative attitude towards AI. The reasons are clear — and about clarity.

By Marcus Jerräng

Jun 15, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence

Architecture-as-code is the next frontier for enterprise governance

Say goodbye to boring architecture review meetings; architecture-as-code turns tedious compliance checks into automated tests that keep up with fast dev teams.

By Nitesh Varma

Jun 15, 2026 11 mins

Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Architecture IT Governance

AI is the new cloud — and we’re repeating the same mistakes

We’re repeating old cloud migration mistakes with AI by obsessing over advanced models while totally ignoring the messy human workflows underneath.

By Jess J. Montgomery

Jun 12, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Digital Transformation

Why CIOs should reopen the build vs. buy question

For two decades, the prevailing CIO advice has been to buy. But the conditions that made that advice obvious are no longer in place, and the technology leader who never revisits the default accepts a different kind of risk and less visibly every quar

By Mihai Strusievici

Jun 12, 2026 9 mins

CIO Software Providers Technology Industry

Why most enterprise AI programs fail — and how to turn them around

Building AI models is easy, but your enterprise program will fail unless you stop obsessing over tech and start rewriting how your business makes decisions.

By Deepika Kaushal

Jun 12, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance Digital Transformation

From AI-assisted to AI-native: Rethinking the software delivery model

Giving developers AI tools helps, but the real breakthrough happens when teams redesign how software gets built — not just how code gets written.

By Vittesh Sahni

Jun 11, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Devops Software Deployment

Why employee experience is now a revenue driver

Happy, engaged employees don’t just stick around — they help close deals, keep customers loyal and fuel growth in ways leaders often miss.

By Sandeep Kashyap

Jun 11, 2026 16 mins

Employee Experience IT Leadership IT Management

Who authorized the AI agent? Breaking the blame loop in agentic AI

When AI agents start making decisions on their own, finding out who is actually responsible when things go wrong becomes a total nightmare.

By Ayush Dubey

Jun 11, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance IT Governance

GitHub Copilot is generating more code than your team can review: Why senior engineers are now the bottleneck

Drowning in AI-generated code isn’t progress — it’s an operational bottleneck that burns out your best senior engineers on tedious syntax reviews.

By Richard Ewing

Jun 10, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership Staff Management

AI is becoming a single point of failure — and most companies don’t see it

Companies are embedding AI everywhere without a backup plan, turning short outages into huge operational headaches when systems suddenly vanish.

By Arti Deshpande, Robert Stines and Mike Vaughan

Jun 10, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data and Information Security IT Leadership

What happens when software can start proving its own security?

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos is changing the game by finding flaws at AI speed, sparking a wild AI-against-AI race where software has to prove its own security.

By Alexander Garcia-Tobar

Jun 10, 2026 8 mins

Application Security Artificial Intelligence Security

The next frontier isn’t AI

AI is a necessary bet, but most organizations are sleeping on a new class of technologies. How will you tap into their power?

By Dave Wright

Jun 9, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Strategy Quantum Computing

Adopting AI models is easy — scaling them requires shared open standards

AI doesn’t scale on models alone. It requires the same focus on infrastructure, shared open-source standards and systems that defined the cloud.

By Brendan Burns

Jun 9, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Strategy Open Source

7 sources of AI debt and how to avoid them

Pressured to bring AI benefits to the bottom line quickly, CIOs are cutting corners in ways that will result in some of IT’s most debilitating tech debt yet.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jun 9, 2026 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Quality IT Strategy

It’s the year of AI transformation for these three industries. Here’s why

I see adoption accelerating in financial services, healthcare and industrials in 2026 — here are my notes from the field.

By Bernard Aceituno

Jun 9, 2026 8 mins

Financial Services Industry Healthcare Industry Manufacturing Industry

The overlooked leadership skill holding back AI value

Organizations struggle to unlock AI’s full value because leaders lack data curiosity, a critical skill for questioning inputs and improving data quality.

By Trevor Schulze

Jun 9, 2026 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Management Data Quality

The power grid runs on decades-old devices — and attackers know it

We are spending trillions to upgrade the grid for AI and EVs, but we’re still protecting it with decades-old hardware and shared passwords that hackers are actively exploiting.

By Scott Register

Jun 8, 2026 7 mins

Cyberattacks Cybercrime Energy Industry

AI is breaking the economic logic of the public cloud

Treating the public cloud as your default setting doesn’t work for AI; teams now have to choose infrastructure based on the actual cost of a specific workload.

By Ranko Cosic

Jun 8, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Budgeting Hybrid Cloud

Stop blaming your ERP vendor

The real reasons ERP implementations fail.

By Michele Doverspike

Jun 8, 2026 7 mins

ERP Systems Enterprise Applications IT Leadership

We’re forgetting the most critical system in the AI loop: the human brain

AI initiatives fail when companies invest heavily in software but neglect the human infrastructure, behavioral discipline and decision hygiene required to use it.

By Derrick Pledger

Jun 5, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership Staff Management