Agentic AI for Modern Manufacturing and Supply Chain Success
MuleSoft is promoting agentic AI combined with APIs to modernize legacy manufacturing and supply‑chain systems. The approach leverages MuleSoft Agent Fabric to connect on‑prem and cloud applications, eliminating both API and agent sprawl. Analyst IDC highlights that this AI‑API synergy can boost forecast accuracy, inventory efficiency, and sustainability. A recent webinar with a leading U.S. manufacturer demonstrates tangible benefits and a roadmap for adoption.
Agentic Transformation Reaches New Heights: 2026 Connectivity Benchmark Report Insights
The 2026 Connectivity Benchmark Report, surveying 1,050 global IT leaders, finds 88% of organizations are on track for partial or full agentic AI transformation, with 98% planning adoption. However, only about 27% of their average 957 applications are connected, creating...
Balance AI KPIs and Vision for True Literacy
RT What is AI literacy? "AI literacy requires a dual focus on AI. What KPIs should teams experimenting with AI focus on that deliver ROI, and whats the longer-term AI vision?" #AI #CHRO #CIO @Star_CIO https://t.co/aiB5P99ido
Replace Functionality One‑for‑one Before Adding Features
Migrating systems? Focus on replacing existing functionality one-for-one before adding new features. This phased approach ensures a smoother transition and allows for innovation later. #TechMigration #SystemUpgrade https://t.co/hQN18iMJ1F
Why EasyDMARC Is the Best Enterprise DMARC Solution
EasyDMARC positions itself as the premier DMARC platform for large enterprises, offering automated SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configuration, centralized monitoring, and intuitive reporting dashboards. The solution tackles the complexity of managing hundreds of domains, third‑party senders, and global email infrastructures...
Tech Alone Won’t Drive AI; Practices Must Evolve
RT I compare this genAI moment to early web and cloud eraswhen transformation only happened after we changed practices (agile, DevOps, design thinking), not just technology. Same story, new stakes. #CIO #AI #DigitalTransformation @Star_CIO https://t.co/xfrVmpSIJN
Entry-Level Tech Jobs Decline; Upskill with AI Apprenticeships
Stanford, IDC, and Gartner are all signaling the same thing: entry-level tech jobs are shrinking and expectations are rising. See how Digital Trailblazers can respond with apprenticeships, reskilling, and AI-first delivery. #AI #CIO #CHRO https://t.co/O0K0QkTUyt
NDSS 2025 – JBomAudit: Assessing The Landscape, Compliance, And Security Implications Of Java SBOMS
The NDSS 2025 paper JBomAudit presents the first systematic study of Java Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), analyzing 25,882 SBOMs and their associated JAR files. It finds that 7,907 SBOMs (about 30%) omit direct dependencies, and 4.97% of those hidden...
Agentic AI Won’t Instantly Eliminate Thousands of Jobs
Just because were getting agentic AI doesnt mean that we can release thousands of people from our workforce and make that correlation. #AI #CIO #CXOTalk https://t.co/xTvbca0YxB
Quiet AI Wins Boost Humanity and Sustainability at Work
RT Some of the most meaningful "AI wins" this year weren't viral launches, but quiet, behind-the-scenes improvements that made work more humane and sustainable for teams. #AI #Innovation @Star_CIO https://t.co/sihXcsM17v
How to Protect Your Active Directory with Duo’s New MFA and Visibility Solutions
Cisco Duo unveiled its Active Directory Defense solution, adding native multi‑factor authentication and granular visibility to on‑prem AD environments. The offering integrates with Cisco Identity Intelligence dashboards and SpecterOps BloodHound Enterprise to surface misconfigurations, risky service accounts, and attack‑path mappings....
Extending ERP to the Frontline: Why AI-Powered HR Kiosks Are Becoming a Critical Enterprise Layer
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and human capital management (HCM) platforms now handle payroll, compliance, and analytics, yet frontline workers remain disconnected from these systems. AI‑powered self‑service HR kiosks embed intelligence at the point of interaction, enabling real‑time attendance validation, policy...
On‑Premise ERP Keeps Flexibility, Cloud Forces Rigid Upgrades
On-premise ERPs offered maximum flexibility: customizability, control over upgrades, and ownership. Cloud ERPs lose these benefits, forcing businesses into inflexible upgrade cycles and painful system switches. #ERP #CloudMigration #BusinessTech https://t.co/93E7e5vIvK
New Databricks Offering Targets Next-Generation Data Streaming
Databricks launched Zerobus Ingest, a fully managed serverless streaming service that moves data directly into Delta Lake tables. The platform streams data from sources such as manufacturing systems, financial trading apps, IoT devices, and cybersecurity tools. It promises sub‑five‑second latency,...
Oracle Red Bull Racing Partnership with Oracle Extended to Power AI-Driven F1 Performance
Oracle has extended its title partnership with Red Bull Racing, deepening the use of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AI, and Fusion Cloud Applications across the team’s race strategy, engineering, and business functions. The deal supports the development of a next‑generation hybrid...
How Do Leaders Ensure AI System Safety and Compliance
Leaders are urged to prioritize Non‑Human Identities (NHIs) – machine identities such as tokens, keys and certificates – as a core component of AI system safety and regulatory compliance. The article outlines how inadequate discovery, classification and secret rotation create...
What Is the Role of AI in Driving Cybersecurity Innovation
Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are becoming central to cybersecurity as organizations accelerate digital transformation. By managing machine identities, tokens and keys throughout their lifecycle, companies can reduce breach risk, improve compliance, and automate secret rotation. AI‑driven platforms add context‑aware detection, enabling...
Cyberattacks on Hospitals Cost Lives. Here’s How to Fight Back at Machine Speed.
Morpheus is an AI‑driven platform that ingests alerts from a hospital’s existing security stack—SIEM, EDR, firewalls, NDR, email security, DLP and identity tools—and stitches them into a single ransomware kill‑chain view. By correlating these signals, it can surface an attack...
Life Mirrors Art: Ransomware Hits Hospitals on TV & IRL
The recent episode of HBO’s drama "The Pitt" portrayed a hospital’s IT systems being shut down by ransomware, forcing clinicians to revert to paper‑based processes. Hours later, the University of Mississippi Medical Center confirmed a real ransomware breach that crippled...
Microsoft Testing Windows 11 Batch File Security Improvements
Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview builds that add a new batch‑file security mode, letting administrators lock batch files in use via the LockBatchFilesInUse registry key or the LockBatchFilesWhenInUse manifest control. The change reduces the need for per‑statement signature validation, boosting script...
Architecting for the IPO: Lessons From the Slack and Eventbrite Lead-to-Cash Transformations
The article examines how Slack and Eventbrite re‑engineered their Lead‑to‑Cash (L2C) pipelines to meet the rigorous demands of an IPO. It introduces the concept of Enterprise Architecture Debt (EAD) and shows how the shift from growth‑centric to governance‑centric systems was...
The AI Boom Is Turning Flash Storage Into a Critical Infrastructure Battleground
The surge in generative AI models has created a flash storage shortage that even the largest cloud providers cannot easily resolve. Industry leaders like Vast Data and Solidigm warn the constraint will persist through mid‑2026, forcing enterprises to rethink capacity...
The Case for Why Better Breach Transparency Matters
Cybersecurity experts Adam Shostack and Adrian Sanabria argue for greater breach transparency at RSA Conference. They highlight that current practices treat incidents as legal liabilities, limiting shared learning. The speakers propose structured feedback loops similar to aviation and medicine. Without...
AWU by Salesforce: A Shiny New Metric that Tells CIOs Little of Value
Salesforce introduced the Agentic Work Unit (AWU) metric on its earnings call, positioning it as a way for CIOs to quantify the output of AI‑driven agents. The metric pairs the number of discrete actions performed with token consumption to suggest...
How Boston Is Transforming Its Outdated 311 System
Boston is overhauling its legacy 311 non‑emergency service platform, replacing the 2008 CRM with a cloud‑based, low‑code solution from Creatio and implementation partner Keen360. The new system already tracks informational calls, which represent over half of request volume, and aims...
Big Cloud Still Runs Most Containers on VMs; What Does that Mean for the Rest of Us?
Analyst firm ReveCom found that the world’s largest cloud providers—AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and DigitalOcean—deploy the overwhelming majority of their containerized workloads on virtual machines rather than on bare‑metal servers. Benchmark data shows VM‑hosted containers achieve roughly 99 % of bare‑metal...
The Quest for the Best EA Tool
Enterprises now manage 500‑plus applications, creating sprawling, costly tech landscapes that often dictate business direction. The article argues that Enterprise Architecture (EA) tools can tame this complexity, but only if they address core requirements such as visual process‑to‑application mapping, cost‑of‑ownership...
Phishing Attacks Against People Seeking Programming Jobs
A wave of phishing campaigns is targeting individuals searching for programming jobs, using fabricated job listings to harvest credentials. At the same time, North Korean APT37 has released new tools that weaponize removable media, raising concerns about air‑gap breaches. The...
Vibhor Kumar: Open Source, Open Nerves
At last year’s CIO Summit in Mumbai, senior leaders from banking, fintech, telecom and manufacturing debated the growing risk profile of open‑source databases, with PostgreSQL emerging as the focal point. The conversation has moved from pure performance to trust, encompassing...
Illumio Insights Brings Agentless Visibility and Breach Containment to Hybrid Environments
Illumio announced Illumio Insights, an agent‑less solution that ingests real‑time telemetry from Check Point and Fortinet firewalls to create live traffic maps across data‑center and cloud environments. The platform converts existing firewall data into visibility without installing software agents, extending...
The Reliability Cost of Default Timeouts
A recent outage showed that infinite default HTTP timeouts let slow downstream calls consume resources until user‑perceived latency caused revenue loss. The Product Service waited indefinitely for a currency API, saturating thread pools and cascading delays across unrelated requests. Fixing...
Hybrid Cloud, Simplified and Sovereign: Why Clarity, Control, and Trust Now Define Enterprise Cloud Strategy
Hybrid cloud has become essential for AI‑driven operations, yet many enterprises face mounting complexity, fragmented architectures, and unpredictable costs. A recent CIO WaterCooler session argues that clarity, control and trust must replace chaos, positioning sovereignty as a strategic advantage rather...
Five Questions to Ask Before Renewing or Expanding Enterprise AI Platforms in 2026
Enterprise AI platform decisions in 2026 are shifting from new deployments to renewals, consolidations, and selective expansions, especially across Asia‑Pacific where cost pressures demand measurable ROI. Leaders must move beyond model accuracy and user adoption, demanding concrete economic proof that...
Oculeus 2FN Authenticates Calls in Real Time to Stop CLI Spoofing
Oculeus has launched its Two Factor Network (2FN) solution, giving telcos a real‑time framework to authenticate caller identity and stop CLI spoofing. The system creates a parallel verification path with digital signatures that peer‑to‑peer carriers exchange during call setup. Industry...
CMMS Deployed to Drive Downtime Reduction, Boost Productivity
DLG Group, a leading Northern European feed manufacturer, has deployed the Fiix cloud‑based CMMS to modernize maintenance across its plants. Within the first month the rollout delivered measurable improvements in mean time between failures and set a target of cutting...
Wildix Looks to Bring Conversations Under Enterprise Control with eSIM
Wildix has introduced Wildix eSIM, an AI‑powered extension of its Mobility Cloud that routes business mobile calls through the enterprise system of record. The solution embeds a single business identity into the SIM, allowing native dialer use while preserving routing,...
One Email per Breach May Miss Second Dump
Updated breaches are a bit messy when it comes to sending domain notifications. We only send ONE email per breach to domain subscribers, so you may get an alert for dump 1 but not for dump 2. It's probably worth...
50+ Expert Forecasts on AI Governance and Security
RT Digital transformation is hitting a new phase. These 50+ expert predictions on agentic AI, governance, and security outline what leaders must prioritize now. #DigitalTransformation #AI #CISO @Star_CIO https://t.co/zhlbEwiusI
Proofpoint Celebrates A/NZ Partners
Proofpoint announced the 2025 ANZ Partner Awards at its Protect Tour in Sydney, honoring partners that advance human‑ and agent‑centric cybersecurity. Nextgen Distribution earned Distributor of the Year, while NTT Data was named Partner of the Year. Infotrust secured Growth...
AI Agent Simplifies Multicloud Tradeoff Decisions
"Managing #multicloud is like learning multiple languages from AWS, Azure, Oracle, & others." Assign an #AI architecture agent that ingests standards, decision criteria, and NFRs, then articulates tradeoffs (cost, perf, security) for each #cloud https://t.co/vBzM21vM14
CEOs View AI Agents as Automation Catalyst, Demand Expert Engineers
I talk to Fortune 500 CEOs and CIOs all time that are starting to think about all the new things that they’re going to build software for, and automate. Agents are the first thing that makes this viable for them....
Healthcare CIOs Enter The AI Maturity Era
Healthcare CIOs are moving AI from experimental pilots to core infrastructure, emphasizing measurable outcomes over hype. At Vive 2026 and HIMSS 2026, leaders highlighted AI’s role in streamlining documentation, revenue‑cycle tasks, and patient‑portal interactions. Simultaneously, state‑level AI regulations—such as Texas’...
Scale Empathy with Unified Service Management, Not Chatbots
The CMO wants "empathy," but the CIO needs "architecture." You can't scale empathy without a unified platform that connects front-office engagement to back-office execution. Don't buy a chatbot; invest in a Service Management ecosystem. Details: https://t.co/ajGMKZ1mkJ #CIO #CMO #CX #CCaaS #AI #ServiceManagement
Amazon Bets Low-Cost Strategy to Dominate AI
.@WSJ: Amazon Tries Its Low-Cost Approach to Winning the AI Race. < My quote within the post. https://t.co/Z8Y3jv0mqC #CIO #AI
Exclusive! Visibility That Pays: Unlocking the Full Value of Cloud Investment
Leaders at the OpenGov Breakfast in Singapore warned that cloud migration alone fails to deliver value without end‑to‑end observability. They emphasized that real‑time visibility across infrastructure, data pipelines, and workflows enables proactive, insight‑driven decisions, reduces risk, and fuels trustworthy AI...
Security Must Account for All Human Actors
The farmers and the mercenaries: Rethinking the 'human layer' in security | CSO Online https://t.co/W4BglrjoFn
Three AI Leadership Moves to Safeguard Teams
Layoffs, hiring freezes, and AI agents everywhere - your teams are anxious. Learn three practical AI leadership moves you can make now to protect people, elevate skills, and deliver outcomes. #AI #CIO https://t.co/O0K0QkTUyt
Macquarie Technology Posts 22nd Consecutive Half-Year EBITDA Growth
Macquarie Technology Group posted its 22nd consecutive half‑year EBITDA increase, rising 3% year‑on‑year to $57.9 million for the six months to 31 December 2025. Cloud services and data‑centre segments each delivered roughly 9% EBITDA growth, while telecom EBITDA fell 19.2% to $10.1 million. Revenue...
AI Threatens Entry-Level Experience, Creating Future Talent Debt
AI isn't just changing senior roles - it's quietly erasing the "learn by doing" years. If we hollow out entry-level jobs now, we'll face a talent debt later. #AI #Hiring #CIO #CHRO https://t.co/W7YbwP6jrL
The Key Components of a Vendor Relationship Management Framework
The rise of distributed supply chains has turned vendors into ongoing operational dependencies, prompting the need for a structured Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) framework. By distinguishing day‑to‑day vendor management from strategic Supplier Relationship Management, companies can ensure reliability while fostering...