The enterprise storage market is currently experiencing unprecedented SSD price volatility driven by massive AI demand and multi-year capacity commitments from hyperscalers. Between Q2 2025 and Q1 2026, for instance, 30TB TLC SSD pricing increased by 257% (from $3,062 to $10,950), while HDD pricing remained relatively stable, increasing by 35%. The situation is challenging some…
The agentic commerce era is here — but how much does it matter? The short answer: enormously, and more so every day. McKinsey has estimated that five years from now, agentic commerce — meaning AI agents acting autonomously on behalf of consumers to search, compare and buy across platforms — could account for $1 trillion…
Counterfeit tobacco sales account for as much as 75% of South Africa’s total market. And while Mary Mahuma, CIO for Southern Africa PMI, admits that the challenge facing the business is significant, she finds solutions by tackling the root cause of the issue: customer insights. According to her, other FMCG brands also struggle to clearly understand…
Without proper controls, AI agents can cost more than what outputs are worth according to Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya, two IT experts and cohosts of popular podcast, All In podcast. During a recent episode, long-time tech investor Calacanis noted that agent costs quickly rose to $300 a day while using the Claude API at one…
Buzzwords like strategic, outcome-driven and experiment have become second nature in modern organizations. Terms meant to imply sophistication, momentum and signpost modern leadership are now diluted jargon. In my experience, when everything is important and strategic, nothing is urgent and little gets done. And when language lacks clarity, expectations become ambiguous, next steps become uncertain…
For years, cloud strategy rewarded standardization. Treat everything as a workload, abstract the differences, optimize for scale and cost. That mindset helped enterprises modernize faster than any previous infrastructure shift. Applying that same mindset to AI is one of the most consequential architectural mistakes I see senior IT leaders make. In executive rooms, the logic…