Opinion

The build vs. buy dilemma at the heart of enterprise AI

AI disrupts traditional software buying, forcing enterprises to choose between embedded vendor tools and custom architectures to control their own data.

By Brenton O'Callaghan

Jul 17, 20268 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT LeadershipIT Strategy

Cybersecurity maturity is now a proof point for resilience

Cybersecurity isn’t just about blocking hackers anymore; it’s proof that your company can handle massive changes, audits and AI adoption.

By Thai Vong

Jun 4, 2026 8 mins

Data and Information Security IT Leadership Security

Your AI cloud strategy isn’t about cost. It’s about gravity

Treating AI agent deployment as a procurement choice rather than a data physics problem is pure strategic sabotage.

By Pete Johnson

Jun 4, 2026 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Management IT Strategy

Your outsourcing contract needs XLAs, not just SLAs

Why hitting your SLAs is no longer enough, and how experience level agreements close the gap between performance and real user experience.

By Greg Hall

Jun 4, 2026 9 mins

Managed IT Services Managed Service Providers Telecommunications Industry

The case for keeping humans at the helm

Ditching humans for a fully automated AI security team might sound tempting, but it actually creates massive blind spots and leaves you with zero legal defense.

By Dave Brown and Robert Lyons

Jun 4, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership

How a 20-engineer team delivers enterprise AI systems at Fortune 500 scale

You don’t need a massive tech team to build enterprise AI. Keeping things small, autonomous and ditching Scrum actually doubles software delivery speed.

By Oleksandr Kondratiuk

Jun 4, 2026 8 mins

IT Leadership IT Management Staff Management

Who authorized the algorithm? Reckoning with ungoverned AI

AI agents are making enterprise decisions faster than boards can meet. The CIO who governs them will define the next decade of business.

By Sunil Gentyala

Jun 3, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership

The value of vendor relationships in the AI era

AI tools mean companies can build software themselves, forcing vendors to prove their worth with faster updates and fairer pricing.

By Thomas Madden

Jun 3, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Vendor Management

Has agentic AI outgrown the data organization?

AI agents need more than just data to work well; they need real-world context from across applications and company operations.

By Ravi Kumar Kappagantu

Jun 3, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance Data Management

AI doesn’t just make mistakes. It defends them

Why CIOs need to rethink “human in the loop.”

By Keith Ferrazzi and Wendy Smith

Jun 2, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership IT Management

Vibe coding an AI governance platform forced me to rethink governance itself

Building with AI proves that old-school tech governance is too slow; companies need real-time tracking, not just policies, to handle AI risk.

By Jeromie Jackson

Jun 2, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance IT Governance

In five years, the orgs that win won’t be the ones that shipped the most AI code. They’ll be the ones whose engineers still understand what got shipped.

By Ankit Jain

Jun 2, 2026 8 mins

IT Leadership IT Management Software Development

‘CIO’ must become synonymous with trust

In an increasingly uncertain and unsettling world, CIOs have the opportunity to become the most trusted leader in the C-suite.

By Thornton May

Jun 2, 2026 5 mins

C-Suite CIO Careers

Work management was built around human latency

Our current work tools, like Jira and Slack, exist to manage human delays, but AI agents are fast enough to make traditional backlogs obsolete.

By Andrew Filev

Jun 2, 2026 7 mins

Agile Development Development Approaches IT Leadership

The neocloud vendor trap: New infrastructure, same old risk

A 4-component risk framework for CIOs who cannot afford to learn this the hard way.

By Steve Oppenheim

Jun 1, 2026 10 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management Vendor Management

4 recs for CIOs to stay on the human side of AI transformation

As CIOs bring all forms of traditional, gen AI, and agentic AI into their organizations, the focus is on the tech and the skills related to the tech. The real challenge, however, is in retaining and hiring critical thinking skills to continue making

By Nicholas D. Evans

Jun 1, 2026 6 mins

C-Suite CIO Digital Transformation

The cloud strategy I helped build didn’t survive contact with AI. Here’s what we did next

AI completely derails normal cloud plans by burning through cash on weird compute spikes and turning simple forecasting into total guesswork.

By Maman Ibrahim

Jun 1, 2026 11 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Cloud Management

What goes where: How AI is forcing a new workload placement strategy

Once AI is governed, the next hard question hits: Which workloads belong in the cloud, which stay local and which need a hybrid approach you can actually defend.

By John Doss

Jun 1, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Management Hybrid Cloud

Cloud spend is now a governance issue. Finance and IT need a new model

Cloud costs are now too wild and engineering-dependent for old-school budgets, so finance and IT need to team up and treat spend as an everyday choice.

By Tracey Shaw

May 29, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Budgeting Cloud Management

Why orchestration, not the model, determines whether your AI scales

The hardest part of AI isn’t the model itself — it’s building the boring plumbing that stops your agents from dropping context and making a mess.

By Brady Lewis

May 29, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership Process Improvement

Want real growth? Here’s the DX formula every CIO needs to see

Stop treating digital transformation like a tech buying spree; it only works when you pick a real business problem and use tech as a multiplier.

By Akio Ueda

May 29, 2026 10 mins

Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Why software development is changing for good

AI makes testing ideas so cheap and fast that even former coders are jumping back in, acting more like team managers who direct and review the code.

By Nick Thompson

May 28, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Quality Assurance

Hyper-personalization in the age of agentic AI: How regulated industries can do it with guardrails

AI agents can personalize your customer outreach in real time, but in regulated industries, you need automated guardrails to keep compliance happy.

By Amit Agarwal

May 28, 2026 9 mins

Financial Services Industry Healthcare Industry IT Governance

This is not a security problem — Anthropic’s Mythos, GlassWing and how the industry must move forward

AI attacks move at machine speed, meaning security can’t just be an IT compliance task anymore; engineering has to step up and co-own the defense.

By Adam Arellano

May 28, 2026 5 mins

Cyberattacks Cybercrime Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

AI will replace far fewer jobs than ignorance will

True AI advantage requires a culture of continuous learning and strategic adaptation rather than waiting to copy industry best practices.

By Stephen Edginton

May 28, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Jobs IT Skills and Training

The AI talent problem CIOs cannot delegate to HR

Top AI talent wants more than a paycheck; they need the freedom to experiment and the best tools, or they’ll head for the exit.

By Dino Velusamy

May 27, 2026 9 mins

Hiring Human Resources IT Skills and Training

Privacy-preserving AI workloads can make expensive GPUs look underused. CIOs should understand the bottleneck before accepting automated rightsizing recommendations.

By Jayachander Reddy Kandakatla

May 27, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Budgeting IT Management

The experience tax: How annoying software is quietly eroding customer loyalty

Minor software annoyances act like a silent tax on your users, gradually destroying their trust until they quietly dump your product for a competitor.

By Jim Wilt

May 27, 2026 12 mins

Markets Software Providers Technology Industry

Companies are spending billions to train workers for AI. Most of it will fail

Businesses are throwing money at AI training that won’t work because they aren’t checking if employees actually have the right mindset for their new roles.

By Gershon Goren

May 27, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Skills and Training IT Training

Connected vehicles, disconnected security: Why connectivity architecture now matters most

Modern cars are basically laptops on wheels connected to a web of third-party apps, meaning we have to secure the data paths, not just the vehicles.

By Thomas King

May 26, 2026 8 mins

Automotive Industry Manufacturing Industry Wireless Security

The security assumption agentic AI just broke

Agents move so fast they bypass the “human friction” that accidentally kept our systems safe. We need security built for machine-speed actions, not human pauses.

By Krti Tallam

May 26, 2026 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Identity and Access Management Security