Enterprises have built their data systems for humans, but AI agents need a whole new infrastructure. Separate research from Cloudera and Google/MIT found that, not surprisingly, there is fervent enterprise interest in AI agents, but underlying infrastructure struggles to keep up. Deployments continue to be hampered, sometimes even abandoned, largely due to issues with data…
Investor appetite for the burgeoning vibe-coding startup ecosystem has shown few signs of satiation over the past year plus, with Swedish AI upstart Lovable’s Series C injection at a $13.3B valuation the latest evidence of a sector viewed by venture capitalists as one of AI’s most promising business disruptors. AI-assisted coding has proved to be…
Oracle said it will deploy Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer inside its cloud infrastructure and provide enterprise customers access through a planned Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) quantum service for hybrid quantum-AI workloads. The companies have forged a multi-year partnership in this regard. The partnership will see Helios installed in a US-based OCI AI data center, where…
We are all transforming now. Some companies have formally named transformation programs. Others are being transformed by a new regulation, an AI mandate, a cyber event, a weather disruption, a change in customer behavior, a competitor’s move or an urgent demand to reduce costs. The label is almost beside the point. The operating assumptions keep…
Enterprises of all sizes in all industries are rapidly deploying generative and agentic AI to automate processes. But the efforts aren’t always panning out. Some reasons are new and unique to this technology. But others are related to issues we should’ve been prepared for because we saw them during the age of RPA. And in…
With vision comes perspective, and over a distinguished career, IT and digital transformation leader Niraj Bhatt has held may titles, and earned three consecutive CIO 100 awards since 2023. As a storied advisor for startups and Fortune 500 companies, helping them navigate the unpredictability and fluidity of AI, Bhatt knows how emerging tech is rapidly…
Most articles about AI Centers of Excellence (CoEs) focus heavily on organizational structures, steering committees and high-level governance models. They explain why enterprises need an AI CoE, but they rarely address the far more difficult challenge of how successful organizations operationalize AI at enterprise scale. In practice, many of these discussions remain theoretical, emphasizing aspirational…
Here is the statistic that should frame every IT leadership conversation this year. In CIO.com’s 2026 State of the CIO, fewer than one in five leaders say their AI initiatives have met or exceeded business goals. After three years of investment, that is not the number anyone expected. And the window to fix it is…
In an attempt to facilitate the buildout of AI infrastructure over time, Nvidia and six financial partners said they are creating a fund of more than $500 billion of third-party capital. The impact of such a cash infusion on enterprise AI is uncertain, but analysts fear that it could both further increase enterprise AI infrastructure…
OVH is increasing the prices of its servers, some by as much as 87%, for both new and existing customers, blaming AI’s insatiable demand driving the rising cost of the RAM and storage it uses in its data centers. The European cloud operator specializes in low-cost bare metal and public cloud offerings. CIOs will be…