As an aviation industry veteran with over 30 years of experience, Alaska Airlines CIO Charu Jain is all too familiar with the technology integration process that often follows a big airline merger. By her count, she’s been involved in four such projects. But none, she says, has brought her greater satisfaction than leading the overhaul…
For years, applicant tracking systems and recruiting platforms were treated as HR technology: Important for workflow, efficiency, compliance and candidate experience, but rarely viewed as core security infrastructure. That assumption no longer holds. Once AI begins reading resumes, scoring candidates, conducting interviews, ranking applicants and influencing who moves forward, the hiring platform stops being a…
AI’s impact has been felt across nearly every industry, and its rise has already started to alter several roles in tech, including that of the business analyst. While the rise of agentic AI may have some questioning whether AI will replace business analyst jobs entirely, as we’ve seen with most roles impacted by AI, it’s…
Two years ago, I sat across from a chief financial officer who had just spent forty minutes on a video call authorizing what he believed was a legitimate acquisition payment. The call included his CEO and two board members, all speaking in familiar voices, all making the kind of small unscripted comments that make a…
Traditional operating systems (OS) were built to manage hardware, files, apps, and users on a device, but Cloudflare says the agentic AI era requires a whole new format. The company this week announced Cloudflare OS, which connects AI agents, enterprise data and context, internal systems, and workflows together in one secure workspace. It is open…
Governance is what lets a team run coding agents and stand behind what they ship. As more code originates from agents, the question every engineering leader is now answering is not how fast the work moves, but who owns it and how it gets checked before it lands. The teams pulling ahead decide on the…
Engineering organizations tasked with scaling AI agents are discovering that the speed they initially achieved is being lost to endless rework. Without proper coordination, ten developers each running several agents against the same codebase becomes an alignment problem that compounds daily. This is a different challenge than individual productivity, and it’s where agent orchestration comes…
For years, cooling has played a supporting role in data center design. Decisions have been driven primarily by compute, storage and networking requirements, while cooling systems quietly ensured everything stayed within safe operating limits. Most enterprise environments operated well within the capabilities of traditional air-cooling that was designed to sustain normal growth. This let organizations…
Open the history tab of any epic that has been alive for more than two quarters. Go ahead, pick one. Count the edits. Somewhere around edit 11, the description was rewritten to satisfy a stakeholder who has since changed roles. Around edit 19, the scope was trimmed to protect a date that, in the end,…
The next big AI wave won’t be a chatbot in your laptop, or an agent that works behind the scenes to turn meeting notes into project tickets, but AI that takes control of devices that move and interact with the environment. Physical AI can be defined as the integration of AI into autonomous systems, allowing…