Microsoft latest earnings report has caused a few tremors in the market over fears that the company has over-committed its resources when investing in AI, and that same issue could also have repercussions for enterprises. In addition, some financial analysts have concerns about the future of Open AI, in which Microsoft holds a 27% stake.…
Zero Trust has been the industry’s North Star for a decade, yet most enterprises still struggle to operationalize it. The principle “never trust, always verify” is easy to say, hard to do. According to Gartner, 63% of organizations worldwide have implemented some form of zero trust strategy, yet only a small fraction report applying its…
Something big is landing in Miami. From March 30 to April 2, 2026, IGEL Now & Next returns to the legendary Fontainebleau Miami Beach, where innovation meets ocean air and the next era of endpoint security takes the stage. Now & Next is more than just another conference. It’s a checkpoint for leaders redefining what secure, adaptive, and…
Every industry reaches a point where its tools must evolve faster than its threats. For end-user computing (EUC), the event at the forefront of endpoint security innovation is this spring at IGEL Now & Next 2026 in Miami. For technology leaders, Now & Next is more than a gathering to collaborate, network, and learn. It’s a forum…
Oracle is considering cutting 20,000 to 30,000 jobs and selling some of its activities as US banks pull back from financing the company’s AI data-center expansion, according to investment bank TD Cowen. The job cuts would free up $8 billion to $10 billion in cash flow, TD Cowen said in a research report seen by…
The past year has been a turning point for CIOs. Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation to executive priority. But in the rush to “adopt AI,” I’ve seen many organizations stumble — not because of the technology itself, but because they skipped the fundamentals. After three decades in enterprise IT — supporting global clients from…
Enterprise work is undergoing its most profound reinvention since the arrival of the cloud. The interface as we know it (screens, clicks, dashboards, forms) is dissolving. In its place is emerging a new operating model where work begins with intent, not navigation, and where agentic AI systems reason, act and learn across the enterprise. For…
Organizations deploying AI agents may be in for a nasty surprise when it comes to the cost of tuning their performance. According to some surveys, nearly 80% of enterprises have deployed AI agents, but most don’t understand the cost of training them and evaluating their outputs, which can result in costs far exceeding expectations, experts…
We’ve all heard the pitch. By now, it’s practically background noise in every tech conference: AI coding is solved. We are told that large language models (LLMs) will soon write 80% of all code, leaving human engineers to merely supervise the output. For a CIO, this narrative is quite seductive. It promises a massive drop…
The pressure for AI strategy to change comes from many fronts including the market entering a correction phase due to difficulties of translating it into financial returns, Europe launching a new wave of regulatory enforcement including the AI Act, and the risk landscape being reshaped. Bearing all this in mind, here are five key questions surrounding how the CIO’s AI plan…