Proxys.io Review
Choosing a proxy provider in 2026 demands more than low prices; reliability and IP reputation drive success. Proxys.io offers a tiered catalog ranging from $0.13 IPv6 bulk addresses to $3.60 residential IPv4 units, with dedicated /24 subnets, full HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 support, and a unique IPv4+Windows OS tier. The platform emphasizes fresh IP sourcing, geographic granularity across 25+ countries, and operational tools such as an API and browser extension. While residential coverage is limited to Russia and Poland, its infrastructure quality and corporate transparency set it apart from commodity resellers.
How Banks Are Modernising Legacy Systems
Banks are confronting decades‑old core systems that limit speed, integration and security. To stay competitive, they are adopting modular architectures that let them upgrade components piece‑by‑piece rather than a full replacement. Cloud‑based core banking, open‑banking APIs and AI‑driven automation are...
Disaster Recovery Plan Checklist: Key Steps for a Smooth Restore
The article outlines an 11‑step disaster recovery (DR) planning checklist that emphasizes inventorying assets, defining recovery objectives, and establishing a trained response team. It stresses leadership involvement in setting RTO/RPO, risk assessment, and budgeting for preventive measures. The guide also...
Nine in Ten Enterprises Plan to Expand On-Premises Footprint Amid Rising Cloud Costs and Data Sovereignty Mandates
A Cloudian‑commissioned survey of 212 senior IT leaders reveals that 89% of enterprises intend to expand their on‑premises infrastructure over the next two years, while 75% have already repatriated workloads from public cloud. The shift is driven by tightening data‑sovereignty...
From Edge to Enterprise: How the Endpoint Became IT’s Most Strategic Layer and Why Lenovo Is Joining the Conversation at...
Enterprise endpoints have shifted from commodity devices to strategic layers in digital workspaces. As hybrid work, zero‑trust models, and cloud‑first applications proliferate, endpoints now enforce identity, security, and user experience. Lenovo is highlighting this evolution at IGEL’s Now & Next...
Akamai Unveils Hybrid AI Inference Platform Blending Centralized Cloud and Edge Compute
Akamai announced a hybrid AI inference platform that merges its centralized data‑center capacity with a worldwide network of edge nodes, aiming to cut latency for AI‑driven applications. The approach leverages 41 core datacenters in 36 countries and roughly 4,400 smaller...
F5 and Forcepoint Partner to Address AI Data Risk and Runtime Security
F5 and Forcepoint announced a partnership that bundles F5’s runtime AI protections with Forcepoint’s Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for enterprise customers. The joint go‑to‑market approach uses channel partners rather than deep product integration, allowing MSPs, VARs and SIs to...
Freshworks Expands Freshservice with Continuous Discovery and Dependency Mapping for IT Asset Management
Freshworks Inc. launched a redefined IT Asset Management (ITAM) module for its Freshservice platform, adding continuous infrastructure discovery and dependency mapping. The AI‑powered service operations layer unifies data from hybrid, cloud, and on‑premises environments, enabling real‑time visibility of hardware, applications,...
From Pilot to Production: Why CIOs Need Better Failure, Not Less of It
The article argues that CIOs should not chase fewer failures but aim for failures that generate real learning. It distinguishes between "fail fast" in testing and "design for failure" in production, emphasizing that both are essential for resilient systems. Organizational...
Cyber-Physical Security Gaps Demand Attention, Health-ISAC’s 2025 Exercise Series Finds
Health‑ISAC’s 2025 resilience exercise series revealed persistent gaps in coordinating cyber and physical security teams across seven simulated ransomware‑plus‑intrusion tabletop drills. Participants repeatedly reported fragmented communication, delayed escalation, and insufficient joint response procedures. The after‑action report distilled twelve priority observations,...
Asana’s CPO Pushes Multiplayer AI Agents for Enterprise Collaboration
Asana’s chief product officer, David Bose, unveiled a multiplayer‑by‑design approach for the company’s enterprise AI agents, enabling shared workflows, auditable action logs, and bi‑directional sync with key business apps. The strategy aims to give CIOs a transparent, institution‑wide AI assistant...
Shake Shack Launches Project Catalyst, AI Push to Speed Orders and Scale to 1,500 Stores
Shake Shack announced Project Catalyst, a four‑pillar AI and data strategy designed to accelerate order fulfillment, improve labor allocation and support a rollout to 1,500 company‑run restaurants. The plan couples an internal chatbot, a new cloud‑based POS platform and a...
Who Really Wins From the Flash Price Surge?
Flash storage prices have surged, initially boosting vendor margins as they sold legacy NAND inventory at higher rates. However, that windfall is fading because new NAND fab capacity takes 18‑24 months and billions of dollars to build, keeping supply tight....
If Your Cloud Won’t Let You Leave, It’s Not the Cloud for You
Many enterprises adopt a single public‑cloud provider for speed, only to discover later that exiting is costly and complex. The article highlights classic red flags—vendor lock‑in, single‑region dependence, opaque pricing, and limited portability—that erode flexibility. It argues that a healthy...
Kyndryl Rolls Out Agentic Service Management for AI-Driven Processes
Kyndryl has launched Agentic Service Management, a platform that helps enterprises shift from manual ticket‑based operations to autonomous, AI‑powered workflows. The solution assesses an organization’s current technology estate, benchmarks against standards like ISO 42001, and delivers a gap analysis with a...
Wireless AI Paradox Emerges as Wi-Fi Evolves Into Strategic Growth Engine
Cisco's State of Wireless 2026 report, based on 6,098 decision‑makers, reveals a “wireless AI paradox”: AI drives the biggest ROI while also creating security and talent challenges. Enterprises that treat Wi‑Fi as a strategic asset see compounding benefits—78% report efficiency...
As Cheap PCs Vanish, Enterprises Might Still Find Value in Upgrades
Cheap PCs are disappearing, prompting Dell and HP to launch new business machines built on Intel’s Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 processors. Benchmarks claim up to 80% graphics improvement, 34% faster productivity, and four‑times AI performance, while battery life stretches to...
Synthesis Helps Financial Enterprises Transform with New Gemini Enterprise
Synthesis, a Digicloud Africa partner, became the first African firm to deploy Google Gemini Enterprise for two financial institutions within a month. The platform, upgraded to Gemini 3.1 Pro, delivers enterprise‑grade reasoning across Google Workspace and third‑party systems. Clients such as Lombard...
NTT Data Study Finds Only 14% of Enterprises Reach Cloud Maturity as AI Spurs Investment
NTT Data’s latest research reveals that just 14% of organizations have achieved the highest level of cloud maturity, even as 99% say AI is increasing demand for cloud investment. The gap underscores a risk that rapid AI adoption may outpace...
Coleridge’s 6th Annual Conference Draws 250 Data Leaders to Push Cross‑Border Collaboration
Coleridge convened nearly 250 data experts, policymakers and technology leaders from 39 states at its 6th Annual National Conference in Arlington, VA, March 24‑27. The event’s “Data Beyond Borders” theme spotlighted inter‑agency data integration, AI‑ready datasets and secure enclaves, underscoring...
NordLayer Launches Secure Enterprise Browser for SaaS‑Focused SMBs at $8/User
NordLayer introduced a dedicated enterprise browser built for small‑ and medium‑size businesses that run SaaS workloads. Priced from $8 per user per month, the browser adds zero‑trust routing, DLP, Shadow‑IT monitoring and built‑in SSO/MFA, aiming to replace consumer browsers that...
Amazon Security Boss: AI Makes Pentesting 40% More Efficient
Amazon’s chief information security officer CJ Moses says AI‑driven penetration testing has lifted efficiency by roughly 40%, slashing human and operating costs. The AI handles data‑heavy vulnerability discovery while humans review critical exploit decisions, enabling continuous testing beyond traditional point‑in‑time...
IT Governance Organization: Structuring for Strategic Success
The new guide provides a practical blueprint for building an IT governance organization that moves beyond frameworks to a concrete operating model. It details how authority is distributed, governance bodies are chartered, decision‑rights are codified with RACI matrices, and escalation...
Top Tech Chief Appointments of 2026 — so Far
The first quarter of 2026 saw a surge of senior technology appointments across banking, retail and consumer‑goods firms, highlighting AI and digital transformation as strategic priorities. HSBC created a dedicated AI role while Kroger named a chief data and AI...
The AI Intelligence Layer for SIEM, Explained: What It Does, Why It Matters, and How to Evaluate One
Security teams face a massive investigation gap: 67% of SIEM alerts go uninvestigated, with each manual review averaging 70 minutes. While SIEMs excel at log collection and alert generation, they lack the ability to reason about attack chains. An AI...
How Clorox Planned Its SAP S/4HANA Transformation — Insights From the CIO
Clorox embarked on a five‑year, $580 million ERP overhaul, migrating to SAP S/4HANA under CIO Chau Banks and Accenture partner Johan Opperman. The program was framed as an enterprise reinvention, emphasizing cross‑functional alignment, phased “waves” that respected seasonality, and a robust change‑network to...
CIO as CEO: The Enterprise Risk Leader
The new guide repositions the chief information officer as the enterprise risk leader, aligning technology risk governance with the rigor applied to financial and operational risk. It draws on standards like COBIT, ISO 27001 and NIST while remaining framework‑agnostic, and it...
Tata Communications Unveils IZO™ Self‑Healing Network for AI‑Driven Enterprises
Tata Communications launched IZO™ Data Centre Dynamic Connectivity, a software‑defined, self‑healing network that spans five continents and targets AI‑driven workloads. The platform promises >99.99% service availability and up to 30% operational cost reductions through deterministic multi‑path routing and consumption‑based pricing.
Rebuilding Revenue at the Source: Why CPQ and Revenue Lifecycle Transformation Should Be on Every CIO’s Agenda
CIOs are being urged to elevate configuration, pricing and quoting (CPQ) from a back‑office function to a strategic revenue engine. Companies face bloated product catalogs, subscription‑based pricing and fragmented data that create manual handoffs, revenue leakage, and slower sales...
5 AWS AI Controls Every Security Team Should Have
AWS now offers organization‑wide controls that let security teams govern AI workloads beyond the application layer. Five key mechanisms—MCP server access blocks, Bedrock policy guardrails, model‑specific SCP denies, service‑wide SCP disables, and long‑term Bedrock API‑key restrictions—can be applied uniformly across...
Joint Offering Combines CrowdStrike's Falcon with HCLTech's AI Force
CrowdStrike and HCLTech have deepened their alliance by launching a continuous threat exposure management service that merges CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform with HCLTech’s VERITY framework and AI Force. The solution delivers real‑time visibility, AI‑driven insights, and automated remediation across endpoints, cloud, identity,...
AI‑First Requires Bold Vision, Not Business‑as‑Usual
“We’re not being bold enough. We’re not being visionary enough, and we are falling into the habits that we have had during every technological revolution, to fit it into the box of business as usual,” https://briansolis.com/2026/04/beyond-digital-transformation-the-ai-first-business-revolution/
Enterprise Architecture Operating Model Guide: Operationalize and Scale EA Practice Effectively
The Enterprise Architecture Operating Model Guide turns EA from a static blueprint into a hands‑on discipline by offering a catalog of reusable "plays" that map people, processes, and technology to business outcomes. It splits its methodology into Business‑Technology Alignment and...
Farhan Khan Announced as FCC Chief Information Officer
The Federal Communications Commission announced Farhan Khan as its new Chief Information Officer. Khan will set the agency’s technical vision, oversee IT services, drive modernization, and safeguard information security. He previously served as Chief Digital Officer at the FDA, managing...
Agency CIOs Must Supply Top-Down IT Contract Information, OMB Memo States
The Office of Management and Budget issued a memo requiring chief information officers at large federal agencies to report every IT contract they approve each month from May through October. The directive, signed by OMB director Russ Vought, also obliges...
NetBox Labs Builds On Rapid Channel Momentum With Ahead Partnership
NetBox Labs, the commercial steward of the open‑source NetBox platform, announced a strategic partnership with Chicago‑based solution provider Ahead. The collaboration will embed NetBox’s infrastructure‑management suite into Ahead’s network‑automation services, supporting cloud‑migration, security and AI‑infrastructure projects. NetBox expects partners to...
Everest Group Taps Ross Tisnovsky to Lead CIO Practice Expansion
Everest Group has appointed Ross Tisnovsky as a partner to head the expansion of its CIO Research and Advisory practice. Tisnovsky returns after a 12‑year tenure at McKinsey, where he co‑founded the technology‑focused Solution Ignite unit. The move aims to...
Nike Cuts Tech Roles, Continues IT Efficiency Drive After Finops Wins
Nike announced continued IT efficiency measures, cutting additional technology roles after a $230 million severance bill tied to recent supply‑chain and tech layoffs. The company dismissed its chief technology officer in January and placed the new chief operating officer in charge...
Accenture Teams with Anthropic to Launch Cyber.AI, an AI‑driven Security Ops Platform
Accenture announced a partnership with Anthropic to launch Cyber.AI, an AI‑driven cybersecurity operations platform built on Anthropic’s Claude model. The solution automates threat detection, investigation and response, and Accenture says it has already seen speed and coverage gains in internal...
NIST Finalizes PQC Standards, NSA Sets 2027‑2035 Deadlines, Sparking $15B Enterprise Migration
NIST completed its first three post‑quantum cryptography standards in August 2024 and the NSA announced a phased migration deadline ending in 2035. The combined mandates are projected to drive a $15 billion market, with QSE unveiling its QPA v2 platform to...
Salesforce Adds 30 AI‑powered Features to Slack, Boosting Slackbot’s Capabilities
Salesforce rolled out an AI‑heavy upgrade to Slack, introducing 30 new features that expand Slackbot’s functions and add reusable AI‑skills. The enhancements, previewed by CEO Marc Benioff and interim Slack CEO Rob Seaman, aim to turn Slack into a broader...
Corewell Health’s Jarve Says Population Health Data Challenges Demand Internal Builds
In this episode, Dr. Bob Jarvie, Associate CMIO and Medical Director for Population Health Analytics at Corewell Health, explains why the health system built its own internal population health data platform instead of relying on external vendors. He highlights the...
‘A Firm Like Ours Will Never Replace Lawyers with AI' - but Goughs' IT Chief Has His Ear to the...
Goughs, a 130‑person family‑law firm in Wiltshire, accelerated its digital overhaul during the pandemic but now regrets not moving faster to the cloud. Partner‑lawyer Ross Phillips, who also heads IT, has built a modest tech stack using managed services, legal...
Egnyte Expands Content Cloud with AI Governance and Built-In Assistant
Egnyte has launched AI Safeguards, a governance layer that lets IT and compliance teams define who and what can be processed by AI within the Egnyte Content Cloud. The same release adds an AI Assistant that works natively inside the...
AI Productivity Hinges on Security, Compliance, and Governance
The ultimate rate limiter on productivity gains from agents will be on critical stuff like security, compliance, governance, the ability to review the work of the agent, ensure that it’s compatible with regulations, and so on. We’ve been living in...
Turn AI Threats Into Career Accelerators in Three Steps
RT Worried AI might put your leadership role on the chopping block? I share 3 moves to turn AI disruption into a career accelerator for you #AI #Career @Star_CIO https://t.co/mIefOcbMM8
Thousands of API Keys Exposed, Highlight Ongoing Security Gaps
Researchers examined millions of webpages and found thousands of exposed API credentials, revealing persistent security gaps across cloud services and development environments. https://t.co/loHYTptzxC
Agentic AI Unifies ITOps and SecOps for Resilience
RT Most orgs still treat ITOps and SecOps as separate universes, but incidents don't care about org charts. Agentic AI gives leaders a reason to redesign workflows around end-to-end resilience. #CIO #CISO #AI @Star_CIO https://t.co/e3w3lXkvfc
CIOs Should Explore Domo’s No‑Code AI Workflow Suite
Domo is best known for its BI capabilities, but CIOs should take a fresh look at its no-code workflows, robust data integration capabilities, and emerging AI Catalyst for developing AI agents #cio #ai https://t.co/Rgkexj9XJP
Security and Coverage Unified for Stable Distributed Operations
Security and coverage are no longer separate layers but part of the same infrastructure logic. Embedding protection and extending reach creates a more stable digital environment for distributed teams and real-time operations.