Every few years, CIOs face a version of the same board question: What are we doing about this new technology? Today, the answer is expected to be AI. The pressure is real. The competitive environment is real. The board’s desire to see progress is legitimate, and I don’t dismiss any of it. What’s worth examining…
The structural limits of traditional enterprise consulting are being exposed by artificial intelligence, and the breakdown is occurring at the seams between strategy and execution. As organizations race to adopt AI while managing an increasingly complex cybersecurity situation, the gap between what legacy firms promise and what they can actually deliver has become impossible to ignore.…
AI’s rapid growth is putting new strain on the global supply chain at a scale we haven’t felt since the pandemic. This time, the pressure point is memory. Though small, memory chips are foundational to everything from laptops to hyperscale data centers. Now they’re getting harder to source at predictable prices. Unprecedented demand for High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) in AI…
AI PCs offer compelling capabilities: smarter applications, faster performance, and on-device intelligence that reduces dependence on the cloud. But realizing that value requires a deployment strategy built around business objectives, user needs, and operational reality. As organizations evaluate where AI PCs fit into broader endpoint strategies, leaders must also weigh device standardization opportunities, support requirements, refresh timing, and…
The rise of AI has created significant challenges for modern data center infrastructure in terms of power management. Traditional enterprise racks that once consumed an average of 7-10 kW, require close to 30-100 kW today. This significant increase in computational requirements has revealed a fundamental bottleneck: The traditional infrastructure isn’t enough to sustain AI growth.…
Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. For the past decade, enterprises have focused primarily on predictive analytics and automation — using machine learning models to classify data, detect patterns and improve decision making. Today, a new paradigm is emerging: Agentic AI, systems capable of autonomously executing tasks and coordinating complex workflows. Yet despite the…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella raised some eyebrows recently when he predicted that traditional business applications will “collapse” in the agentic AI era. Investor concerns that agentic AI could disrupt the enterprise software market came to a head in early February when Anthropic’s release of Cowork — a clear shot across the bow at Microsoft Copilot…
Revenue dips. Latency spikes. Alerts fire. The dashboards look fine – until they don’t Slack explodes. Ten engineers become 20. Queries multiply. Everyone starts scanning raw event data at once. And then the system starts to buckle. Right when you need it most. Over the past decade, I’ve worked on large-scale, real-time analytics systems for…
Effective leaders motivate employees. But what exactly does that mean? According to your generic internet dictionary, motivate (v) means to give (someone) a reason for doing something. That isn’t a bad definition as these things go, but it’s too transactional to be satisfactory. If you as CIO are trying to motivate an employee, you probably…
In recent years, the business environment surrounding companies has been changing at an unprecedented pace. Since the November 2022 launch of ChatGPT, generative AI has begun permeating companies and society at a staggering pace, foreshadowing a future AI industrial revolution. At our company, too, driven by a sense of crisis that our previous IT strategy…