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Microsoft, Google back Apache Ossie to make enterprise data and AI platforms more interoperable

Their support for the project could make enterprises’ Power BI and BigQuery semantic models more portable, but governance gaps and the project’s evolving specification could limit interoperability, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

2 Oct 20266 mins

Data GovernanceData IntegrationData Management

Memory squeeze set to tighten through 2028, Micron says

By Gyana Swain

1 Oct 20265 mins

BudgetingData CenterServers

ServiceNow launches standalone AI service desk to provide support in Teams, Slack, and email

By Lynn Greiner

1 Oct 20264 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT ManagementITSM

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OpenAI bets enterprises are ready to delegate real work to autonomous agents

Dots, Codex Cloud, and an expanded Agents API signal OpenAI’s push to make autonomous, long-running AI practical and cheaper for enterprise tasks.

By Taryn Plumb

1 Oct 2026 6 mins

BusinessDevelopment ToolsEnterprise

Trump and Xi set up an AI hotline and no AI limits. Here’s what that means for CIOs

Neither side wanted to limit AI development, and Beijing targets companies putting AI services in front of users, leaving CIOs to manage the risks.

By Collin Hogue-Spears

1 Oct 2026 7 mins

GovernmentLaws and RegulationsTechnology Industry

Trump’s answer to AI’s image problem: Industry self-regulation and a new name

An executive order mandates a terminology shift across federal agencies, while a parallel industry accord backed by top AI CEOs leans on voluntary safeguards.

By Gyana Swain

1 Oct 2026 4 mins

GovernmentLaws and RegulationsMarkets

In cloud-native systems, you can't optimize what you can't observe

Your averages are lying to you: Cloud systems fail at the tail, not the mean, and most teams are still watching the wrong number entirely.

By Srinivas Chippagiri

30 Sep 2026 6 mins

AnalyticsCloud-NativeROI and Metrics

When Preparing for Zero Trustu2014Collaboration is Essential

For Zero Trust to be implemented smoothly, it must be coordinated among many groups within the enterprise. Letu2019s take a closer look at those efforts.

22 Jan 2022

IT Leadership

Client Zero strategy for enterprise AI transformation

What if the best way to scale enterprise AI is to make your own organization the first — and toughest — customer?

By Magesh Kasthuri

30 Sep 2026 16 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDigital TransformationIT Strategy

How CIOs should evaluate alternative clouds

Enterprise executives aren't jumping blindly onto trendy neoclouds. They're assessing maturity and making pragmatic workload-to-cloud pairings.

By Bill Doerrfeld

30 Sep 2026 8 mins

BudgetingC-SuiteCIO

AI skills are boosting IT pay — but mostly for senior roles

AI has raised salaries in tech occupations that have so called high exposure to AI. But workers with more experience are seeing the biggest boost, according to data from Indeed Hiring Lab, as employers shrink their entry-level pipelines into AI-adjacent roles.

By Sarah White

30 Sep 2026 4 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCareersRoles

Driving ROI in your AI initiatives

What if the key to better AI ROI isn’t using more AI, but knowing where it creates value and controlling what each workload actually costs?

By Vasant Rao

30 Sep 2026 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceBudgetingROI and Metrics

In Photos: CIO50 and CSO30 Australia Awards 2026

By Cathy O'Sullivan

30 Sep 2026 8 mins

IT Leadership

Meta’s next big AI bet is enterprise; its biggest hurdle may be trust

The new Meta Enterprise Platform brings Muse agents, APIs, and coding tools together, but questions remain about Meta’s commitment to enterprises and its ability to earn their trust.

By Taryn Plumb

30 Sep 2026 6 mins

BusinessEnterpriseMarkets

Anthropic revelations suggest a much stronger AI negotiating stance for enterprise CIOs

Details from the company’s IPO prospectus reveal a larger than previously reported dependence on just a handful of customers.

By Evan Schuman

30 Sep 2026 4 mins

Artificial IntelligenceBusinessEnterprise

Microsoft rewires AI’s context layer for business

Presenting new capabilities for Fabric, Power BI, OneLake, and Azure SQL, the company took the stage in Barcelona to outline how its customers can connect data, business context, and AI to fuel the agentic enterprise.

By Gonzalo Díaz Bonet

30 Sep 2026 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData ManagementGenerative AI

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Spotlight: Setting the 2026 IT agenda

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Our annual State of the CIO Survey, now in its 25th year, highlights the ongoing evolution of the CIO role from IT operator to strategic business leader. The data is brought to life in conversations with IT leaders about their experience shaping enterprise strategy, enabling business growth, and leading cultural change. State of the CIO illuminates key areas of business and technology investment and this focus provides an ideal opportunity for sponsors to align with the opportunities highlighted by the research.

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