We recently wrote about the emerging Internet of Agents: A world in which AI agents no longer operate only inside the boundaries of one company or one software platform, but interact with agents run by suppliers, customers, partners and other technology providers. The basic premise was that this world needs infrastructure. Agents need to identify…
November 2022 was a big milestone for AI when ChatGPT was released. But in terms of enterprise transformation, November 2024, when Anthropic released MCP as an open standard, was maybe an even bigger transition point. MCP ushered in a new age. Before, AI was primarily used to answer questions, but with MCP, AI models could…
A couple of years ago, I did some work with a client’s legacy system. But this wasn’t an ancient relic written in COBOL or Assembler; it was a relatively new C++ application. Let’s call it “App1.” So, when did App1 become “legacy?” When did my client’s relationship with it sour? A stale relationship? The UK…
AI forces organizations to make consequential decisions during uncertainty. Roche chief digital and technology officer Wafaa Mamilli says this is the new leadership imperative. She believes success depends not on certainty but building the right foundations: trusted data, governance that enables speed, upskilling the employee base, and focusing on outcomes. At Roche, that approach drives…
During my younger days in the IT industry, my favourite book was Jack Welch’s “Straight from the Gut.” Anybody who was anybody and aspiring to be a hot-shot leader or manager spoke about this book. Truthfully, it is a good book. But I am not sure that many of us, myself included, really learned much…
Broadcom isn’t playing nicely in the European market, according to a new report by the independent monitoring body European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO), which rates Broadcom’s status as “critical” in its most recent analysis of cloud competition in Europe. The company’s conduct has “deteriorated markedly” since October 2025 due to what ECCO calls “continued and…
Together with partner NVIDIA, Salesforce today at Dreamforce Conference 2026 unveiled a new CRM domain-specific reasoning model for Agentforce dubbed Koa. “It’s built on NVIDIA’s Nemotron and it brings together 27 years of product development in CRM,” said Rohan Kumar, president and chief platform and engineering officer at Salesforce. Kumar explained that Koa was built…
Oracle began a new round of layoffs this week, sending early-morning termination emails to staff for the second time in six months. The latest wave began Monday with affected staff being told, “After careful consideration of Oracle’s current business needs, we have made the decision to eliminate your role as part of a broader organizational…
Cockroach Labs, the company behind distributed SQL database CockroachDB, is betting that the rise of agentic applications will make traditional database provisioning, where systems are sized for peak demand, increasingly difficult to justify as agents create highly concurrent, unpredictable and often short-lived database workloads that can leave provisioned compute idle between bursts. Its solution to…
Kicking off the Dreamforce Conference 2026 in San Francisco on Tuesday, Salesforce launched AIforce, a live interface layer for enterprise software it hopes will transform the way knowledge workers access enterprise data. By unlocking Salesforce data, workflows, business logic, semantics, permissions, security, and governance for any AI interface, the company also aims to broaden the…