Navigating the Opaque Fog of Public Cloud Carbon Footprints
The promise that public cloud automatically reduces emissions is eroding as providers use inconsistent metrics. AWS, Microsoft, and Google rely on market‑based reporting, renewable credits, or emerging 24/7 carbon‑free claims, making true carbon accounting opaque. Additionally, embodied carbon from AI‑focused hardware now represents up to half of data‑center emissions, a factor rarely disclosed. Enterprises must shift from trusting provider dashboards to demanding hourly, location‑based data and adopting efficient models to verify real environmental impact.
SAP Business Data Cloud Explained: A New Model for ERP Data and Analytics
SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) is a fully managed SaaS that unifies data management, governance, and analytics across SAP and non‑SAP systems, tackling the fragmentation that still plagues most ERP environments. A recent SAPinsider benchmark shows only 3% of organizations...
SAP and ODI Team Up to Make Enterprise Data AI‑Ready
SAP and the Open Data Institute (ODI) have launched a global program to create AI‑ready data foundations for enterprises. The initiative underpins IDEA (Interchange for Data and Enterprise AI), a neutral framework that defines governance, semantics, and lineage across heterogeneous...
DoD Modernization Exchange 2026: Navy’s Scott St. Pierre on Modernizing the Service’s Enterprise Information Ecosystem
The Navy is accelerating its IT network and data‑center consolidation, dropping from 124 discrete IT environments to under 100 by the end of 2026. It has already cut networks from roughly 6,000 in the 1990s to 124 today and aims...
Hyperscaler Backlogs Show Growing Demand for AI Infrastructure
Data center capital expenditures surged 57% to $726 billion in 2025 and are projected to grow over 50% in 2026, pushing total spend past $1 trillion. The four hyperscalers—Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft—raised capex 76% year‑over‑year, with Amazon spending $131 billion in 2025...
IBM, Arm Target Enterprise AI With Mixed-Architecture Approach
IBM and Arm announced a partnership to run Arm‑native applications on IBM Z mainframes and LinuxOne servers through a shared software layer and virtualization. The solution lets enterprises deploy AI workloads across both architectures without rewriting code, preserving the uptime,...
Digital Identity Research Warns of ‘Password Debt’ as Enterprises Delay IAM Rollouts
Enterprises recognize identity threats but large‑scale passwordless rollouts are stalling. Hypr’s State of Passwordless Identity Assurance 2026 report shows only 43% of firms use passwordless methods while 76% still rely on passwords, with 32% citing legacy‑app incompatibility as a barrier....
Snowflake Achieves Key ISO Certifications: ISO 22301 and ISO 20000
Snowflake announced it has earned two international standards certifications—ISO 22301:2019 for business continuity management and ISO/IEC 20000‑1:2018 for IT service management. The audits verified Snowflake’s processes, infrastructure and controls, confirming robust continuity plans and structured service delivery. These certifications join an existing...
Stop Calling It Debt — It’s A Liability
Murray Cantor, a PhD mathematician with high‑risk project experience at IBM and Boeing, argues that the vague term “technical debt” should be replaced by a quantifiable liability. By assigning a dollar value to unresolved code issues, firms can treat IT...
Application-as-a-Service Pushing ERP Toward Composable Stacks
Application‑as‑a‑Service (AaaS) is moving from a niche buzzword to a mainstream architectural choice, with research forecasting robust growth through 2033. Enterprises are abandoning monolithic ERP suites in favor of composable stacks that stitch together best‑of‑breed SaaS applications for CRM, HR,...
ExtensisHR Appoints Alan Missen as Chief Information Officer
ExtensisHR, a national PEO and HR outsourcing provider, announced the appointment of Alan Missen as its new Chief Information Officer. Missen brings more than 35 years of experience leading technology transformation, systems modernization, and enterprise integration across HR, financial services,...
Hybrid Cloud and AI: The New Enterprise Architecture
Enterprises are shifting from cloud‑first to strategic hybrid cloud to support AI production at scale. AI‑native platforms combined with centralized governance enable modular, continuously evolving architectures that integrate with ERP, CRM, and edge systems. Deloitte and PwC research highlights that...
Vance Fowler Named Chief of Enterprise IT Services Division at Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers
Vance Fowler has been appointed chief of the Enterprise IT Services Division at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC). He returns after a nine‑year stint at FLETC and brings more than 30 years of federal IT leadership, most recently...
Future-Proof Your Security and Reduce Quantum Risk with Cryptographic Agility
Enterprise encryption faces imminent quantum risk, prompting a shift to post‑quantum cryptography (PQC). Because PQC algorithms are still maturing, organizations need cryptographic agility to replace and update algorithms without service disruption. Palo Alto Networks’ PAN‑OS 12.1 demonstrates this by allowing hybrid...
Escaping the COTS Trap
Enterprise cybersecurity teams have amassed large fleets of commercial off‑the‑shelf (COTS) tools, driving complexity, cost, and risk. While COTS promises rapid deployment and lower upfront spend, dependence creates structural lock‑in that hampers future changes and migration. The article highlights how...
Inside How the World’s Largest Biscuit Brand Transformed ERP and Cut Costs 30%
Parle Products, the world’s top‑selling biscuit brand, has migrated its legacy SAP ECC system to SAP Cloud ERP Private hosted on IBM’s hybrid cloud. The clean‑core architecture and integrated AI tools have streamlined finance, supply chain and manufacturing processes. Early...
Navigating ERP Migrations Without the Usual Pitfalls
Aptean warns that ERP migrations fail more often due to data, process and people issues than software flaws. It proposes a disciplined four‑step data migration framework—scope definition, cross‑functional team, data standardization and incremental testing—to curb scope creep and poor data...
CISOs Grapple with AI Demands Within Flat Budgets
The 2026 RH‑ISAC CISO Benchmark reveals that security budgets in large organizations are inching upward, reaching 0.75 % of revenue, while overall IT spend climbs to 3.9 %. More than half of respondents expect modest 1‑10 % budget increases in 2026, but many...
Inside Capital One’s Shift to a ‘Serverless-First’ Operating Model
Capital One is five years into a "serverless‑first" transformation, using AWS Lambda as the default platform for new development. The shift has cut run‑engine costs and boosted developer productivity, with engineering teams reporting roughly 30% less time spent on infrastructure...
Designing an End-to-End Technology Workforce for the AI-First Era
CIOs are overhauling technology organizations to thrive in the AI‑first era, balancing cost cuts, innovation, and geopolitical risk. They must redesign hiring practices, reskill staff, and renegotiate vendor contracts to extract real ROI from agentic AI. Top‑performing firms already involve...
How Agentic AI Is Reshaping Banking in South Africa
Agentic AI is moving from hype to operational reality in South Africa’s banking sector, with 79% of senior executives worldwide already deploying AI agents, according to PwC. Absa’s partnership with Salesforce introduced the Agentforce platform, testing three autonomous agents that...
Why DDoS Mitigation Fails: 5 Gaps That Testing Reveals
Companies pour money into DDoS mitigation, yet outages persist because the tools are rarely tested under realistic attack conditions. Red Button’s simulations reveal that 68% of faults are severe, with an average DDoS Resilience Score of 3.0—far below the 4.5‑5.0 benchmark....
How Scalable Is Agentic AI for Growing Businesses
Enterprises increasingly rely on Non‑Human Identities (NHIs) to power automated processes, yet many still lack comprehensive management. Effective NHI governance—covering discovery, access control, and continuous threat monitoring—delivers risk reduction, compliance assurance, and operational efficiency. Agentic AI adds scalability by automating...
Sanford Health CIO Steps Into New Role
Brad Reimer has been elevated from CIO to chief technology and digital officer at Sanford Health, the 58‑hospital system based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. After nearly four years overseeing the network’s IT operations, he will now steer digital transformation,...
Changemaker and HIMSS Michigan Founder Continues Lifetime of Leadership
Veteran healthcare IT executive Helen Hill, SEMHIE Vice President and CIO, continues to shape Michigan’s health information landscape. She founded the state’s HIMSS chapter and now serves on the board and chairs the interoperability task force for the Michigan health...
Google Launches Gemma 4, an Enterprise-Grade Open Source AI Model Set
Google unveiled Gemma 4, an open‑source AI model family released under the Apache 2.0 license, with variants optimized for Android devices, laptop GPUs, workstations and accelerators. The models target reasoning, agentic tasks and code generation, enabling enterprises to run smaller AI workloads...
SAP Security Investment Still Misses Where Risk Is Highest, Benchmark Data Shows
SecurityBridge introduced the Cybersecurity Resilience Index for SAP (CRIS), a benchmarking model built on anonymized data from thousands of production systems. The index evaluates eight security domains against more than 550 controls, revealing that most organizations score only 30‑40% overall...
FIDO Seminar: Advancing Passkeys in the Workforce
On the opening day of the RSA Conference, the FIDO Alliance hosted a one‑day seminar titled “Advancing Passkeys in the Workforce.” The event gathered senior security and identity executives to discuss practical rollout strategies, user‑experience considerations, and measurable impact of...
Windows Security App Gets Secure Boot Certificate Status Indicators as 2026 Expiration Approaches
Microsoft has introduced Secure Boot certificate status indicators in the Windows Security app to help IT teams monitor the replacement of 2011‑issued certificates that expire in 2026. The indicators are delivered via Windows Update, but they are disabled by default...
Why Third-Party Risk Is the Biggest Gap in Your Clients' Security Posture
Third‑party risk has become the largest security gap for many organizations, accounting for 30% of data‑breach incidents and an average remediation cost of $4.91 million. The modern perimeter now extends across SaaS applications, vendor APIs, and subcontractors, prompting regulators such as...
The Diginomica Network Podcast - CIO Subhash Chandra Jose Takes EBRD Beyond the Sunset
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was originally built with a 20‑year sunset plan but has now operated for 35 years, prompting a major digital overhaul. CIO Subhash Chandra Jose, who took the helm in 2023, outlined a five‑year transformation...
Maersk Uses SAP on Azure to Cut Costs and Enable AI-Driven Logistics
Maersk migrated its SAP landscape to Microsoft Azure, replatforming 500 legacy servers and achieving near‑100% uptime with zero incidents. The cloud move transforms SAP from a static record system into a real‑time platform that supports AI‑driven logistics, predictive analytics, and...
Understanding the Risks of OpenClaw
OpenClaw AI Agent Platform functions as an orchestration layer rather than a standalone cloud service, providing the plumbing for agents to interact with external models and enterprise systems. While it can be run locally, its real value emerges only when...
Microsoft Releases Open-Source Toolkit to Govern Autonomous AI Agents
Microsoft unveiled the open‑source Agent Governance Toolkit, a seven‑package suite that adds policy, identity, compliance and reliability controls to autonomous AI agents. The toolkit runs in Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go and .NET, offering sub‑millisecond policy enforcement and cryptographic trust mechanisms....
When Your Own Eyes Turn Against You: How Compromised Security Cameras and IoT/OT Devices Become Tools for Your Attackers
Security cameras, IoT and OT devices are increasingly being compromised and repurposed as attack vectors, enabling nation‑state reconnaissance, espionage, ransomware pivots, and massive botnets. Recent incidents include Iranian hackers hijacking Hikvision cameras during missile strikes, Russian operatives streaming compromised webcams...
Lack of Oversight Threatens AI Pilots as Spending Falls Under Scrutiny
A Solvd survey of 500 U.S. CIOs and CTOs finds 80% blame lack of visibility and oversight for AI pilot failures. More than half expect to shut down underperforming pilots this year as boards intensify scrutiny of AI spend. Despite...
Improving Storage Efficiency in Magic Pocket, Our Immutable Blob Store
Dropbox’s exabyte‑scale immutable blob store, Magic Pocket, faced a sharp rise in storage overhead after a new Live Coder service created many under‑filled volumes. To combat the fragmentation, the engineering team introduced two additional compaction strategies—L2, a dynamic‑programming‑based volume packer,...
ArmorPoint and Scudo360 Partner to Expand Managed Security Services
ArmorPoint has teamed up with Scudo360 to embed a 24/7 managed SOC and SIEM capability into Scudo360’s service portfolio. The co‑delivery model gives Scudo360’s mid‑market clients continuous threat monitoring and real‑time response without building their own security operations center. By...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...