Organizations have spent years and billions of dollars hardening their defenses against cyberattacks, but prevention alone no longer settles the question that matters most to a board. Accenture’s State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2025 report stated that organizations had faced an average of 1,876 cyberattacks in a single quarter, a 75% increase over the prior year.…
Microsoft is betting that the integration of HorizonDB, the cloud-native PostgreSQL alternative it is developing, with Azure will attract more enterprise AI and agentic workloads to its cloud services. Enterprises may not be willing to take that bet. It’s been nine months since Microsoft unveiled HorizonDB, but the service remains in public preview with no…
The most complicated IT environments I’ve worked in weren’t built that way on purpose. They got there through a sequence of reasonable decisions made by reasonable people under real pressure. A cloud provider added because the incumbent couldn’t hit a latency requirement. A point solution brought in because a business unit needed something fast. A…
Each year the CIO 100 Awards showcase outstanding IT initiatives, and every year they illustrate the power and potential of technology to transform how people work, how organizations perform, and the value they offer to customers. The 2026 cohort of winners is no different. Each one demonstrates how IT executives and their teams successfully move…
Petco Park consistently ranks among MLB’s top ballparks for fan experience. That doesn’t happen by accident, and it didn’t wait for a star-studded roster or a deep postseason run. According to Padres CIO Ray Chan, the club made a deliberate choice more than a decade ago to run its tech organization as if every seat…
Earlier this year, the National Bureau of Economic Research released survey results from over 6,000 U.S. leaders showing that while AI adoption is widespread at 69%, we’re seeing little to no impact on productivity. Anecdotally, we’ve seen leaders from top companies echo that refrain. It’s the reckoning many CIOs, CTOs and COOs are navigating as…
The role of the CIO has changed more in the last five years than it did in the previous 20. Cloud computing, cybersecurity, data, automation and artificial intelligence are reshaping organizations at a pace few leaders have experienced before. Today’s competitive advantage often becomes tomorrow’s baseline capability. In this environment, expecting a CIO to be…