Most enterprise data was designed to be consumed by people. But automation and AI agents will soon make up a much larger share of the workforce. KPMG’s Global Tech Report predicts that digital assistants will account for 36% of core technology teams’ capacity by 2027, up from 28% in 2025. This is why data readiness…
Microsoft expanded its sovereign cloud offerings on Tuesday, adding new security, governance and AI capabilities as customers, particularly in Europe, demand greater assurance over where data is stored, who can access it and how critical services operate during disruptions. The announcement builds on Microsoft’s ongoing digital sovereignty efforts, assisting organizations in applying appropriate levels of…
Few CIOs are likely to suddenly decide to give an AI agent broad authority over corporate systems. The more likely path to autonomy is far less dramatic. An agent starts with a narrow task. It proves useful, so another system is connected. It then needs more data, so another permission is added. Then human approval…
CIOs bring a lot to their new jobs: decades of leadership, transformation, pattern-recognition, and outcomes. But none of that matters in your new job. During a time of generalized uncertainty, your team — and every stakeholder — needs to trust you more than anything. But how do you build that trust in a new environment,…
For most of the last three decades, the technology organization’s authority rested on something simple: it held capabilities nobody else had. If the business wanted software, it came to IT. That arrangement no longer holds. A marketing team can now assemble a working customer-facing prototype over a long weekend using three AI tools, including some…
For years, disaster recovery was built around a relatively simple question: How quickly can we get the business back online? That question still matters. But for today’s CIO, it is no longer enough. Enterprise technology environments have become too dynamic to define recovery simply as restoring applications, reconnecting infrastructure and resuming operations. Applications span on-premises…
DeepSeek has been dealt a huge blow in the US, even as it continues to innovate and keep pace with, or in some cases outperform, rival models from American labs. The US Secretary of Homeland Security has issued an order banning all DeepSeek products and services from federal agencies. Government organizations must purge their IT…
When UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Chief Data Officer Jessica Rusu gave a speech on Monday advocating that UK companies be required to report “significant AI failures and near-misses,” she added to the drumbeat of demands for some kind of regulatory control over enterprise AI deployments. But her speech also highlighted regulator frustration over futile…