Will SAP Open AI Access to Customers That Haven’t Moved to the Cloud?
SAP is reportedly preparing to let a subset of on‑premise ERP customers, including some SAP ECC users, access its Business AI suite before they complete a cloud migration. The move, expected to be announced at SAP Sapphire in Orlando, would be a departure from the company’s strict cloud‑first AI rollout. Details on which AI tools, eligibility criteria, and pricing remain vague, echoing past limited‑scope programs like the ERP Transition Option. If confirmed, the offer could serve as a test‑bed for legacy customers while keeping pressure on broader modernization.
Beyond the Inbox: Why Your Domain and Social Media Are the Next Front Lines
Email security alone no longer protects organizations as attackers pivot to brand impersonation. By hijacking subdomains, registering look‑alike domains and creating fake social‑media profiles, threat actors launch phishing and BEC campaigns that bypass SPF, DKIM and DMARC. Red Sift’s research...
From AI Investment to Innovation: What It Takes to Deliver Real Business Impact
Organizations are pouring money into AI, yet many CIOs still see limited ROI. Jeff Baker of PwC argues that moving AI from isolated experiments to enterprise‑wide, business‑outcome‑driven initiatives is essential. He emphasizes pairing AI engineers with business units, securing clean...
Enterprise AI Deployment Is Creating a Security Blind Spot Traditional Architectures Can’t Handle
Enterprise AI deployments are stretching traditional security models, turning data pipelines, model training environments, identity systems and supply chains into new attack vectors. Dell’s senior cybersecurity evangelist Steve Kenniston says up to 90% of AI projects are paused because security...
The “Golden Ticket” For Cloud-Native Modernization
Enterprises are reaching a cost‑driven inflection point where maintaining legacy hypervisors is pricier than migrating to cloud‑native platforms. Market consolidation and aggressive licensing shifts have narrowed the window for modernization, prompting firms to overhaul both legacy SAP estates and emerging...
Vodafone Signs German Sovereign Cloud Deal with AWS
Vodafone has sealed a partnership with Amazon Web Services to deliver a sovereign cloud offering for German enterprises and public‑sector clients. Leveraging its recent acquisition of Skaylink, Vodafone will provide migration assistance using AWS‑certified staff and ensure all data resides...
WealthArc Gains ISO 27001:2022 Certification for AI Data Push
Swiss‑born fintech WealthArc announced it has achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification from BSI, confirming its information security management system meets global standards. The certification follows a rigorous audit and underpins the company’s plan to scale to over 1,000 custodian data feeds...
SA Records Highest Global Cyberattack Rate & Identity Visibility Gap, Study Reveals
Zoho’s State of Workforce Password Security 2026 report shows South Africa leading the world with 36% of organisations reporting cyber‑attacks, the highest global rate. A staggering 79% of firms lack complete visibility into user identities and access, while 71% have...
AI Coding Agents Could Fuel Next Supply Chain Crisis
Researchers at Adversa.AI uncovered that Claude Code and similar agentic AI coding tools can be duped into executing malicious code with a single trust‑dialog confirmation, granting attackers one‑click remote code execution and opening a supply‑chain vector, especially in CI/CD pipelines....
AXA's Fraught Journey to the Cloud Starts to Pay Off
AXA, the French‑based global insurer, has finally seen tangible results from its decade‑long cloud migration effort. After a rocky virtual‑machine lift‑and‑shift, the company now runs heavily containerised applications in public clouds. The new architecture powers critical claim‑processing and underwriting workloads,...
Why the Future of Software Is No Longer Written — It Is Architected, Governed and Continuously Learned
The article argues that by 2026 software development will be driven by generative AI, shifting the CIO mandate from rapid code delivery to architecting and governing enterprise intelligence. AI agents now orchestrate the entire software lifecycle, compressing design and deployment...
Why AI Regulation Is Now an Operating Model
Enterprises now face enforceable AI regulations rather than voluntary guidelines, with the EU AI Act fully in force and U.S. states implementing targeted rules such as the Take It Down Act. CIOs must shift from policy‑only approaches to operational controls...
Coherence: Where Leadership and AI Success Intersect
Leigh‑Ann Russell, BNY’s CIO, argues that "coherence"—the alignment of talent, clarity, and governance—is essential for scaling AI without creating chaos. BNY’s AI hub, Eliza, now hosts over 220 production solutions and has trained 100% of its workforce, exceeding a 65%...
Zero Trust in the IT Ops Stack: Securing Hybrid Workloads
Zero‑trust operations are moving from a perimeter mindset to an identity‑centric model, driven by the expansion of hybrid and multi‑cloud workloads. Executives gain stronger risk governance, reduced blast radius, and clearer visibility by embedding continuous verification and least‑privilege controls into...
Airtel’s Enterprise Arm Launches DPDP Act-Compliant Security Solution
Bharti Airtel’s enterprise division has launched Airtel Secure Workforce, a zero‑trust, fully managed security platform designed to meet India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act requirements. The solution secures endpoints, devices, networks, applications and data while promising up to a...
Hexion Deploys 30 Petabyte Sovereign Data Archive in South Africa
South African storage firm Hexion has deployed a 30‑petabyte deep‑archive platform, one of the region’s largest privately operated data archives. The solution stores all customer data within South Africa, addressing data‑sovereignty, compliance, and cybersecurity concerns for sectors such as finance,...
Why Point-in-Time Assessments Fail and What Must Replace Them
Point‑in‑time security assessments such as annual SOC 2 reports are increasingly out of sync with the rapid code deployments, AI integrations, and configuration changes that characterize modern SaaS environments. The article explains that static questionnaires capture a snapshot, not the continuous...
City of Hope Appoints Regional CIO
David Strickland has been named regional CIO of City of Hope, overseeing technology strategy for its cancer‑center sites in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. He arrives from a 20‑year tenure at Kaiser Permanente, where he most recently served as vice president...
Behind the Kentucky Derby: How Churchill Downs Is Using SAP to Control Spend
Churchill Downs, the operator of the Kentucky Derby, has leveraged SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition as the core of a broader digital transformation, adding SAP Ariba and SAP Business Network to tighten spend control. The cloud ERP gave the 10,000‑employee...
Harris Farm Markets Bolsters Digital, Data Leadership
Australian grocery chain Harris Farm Markets announced two senior tech hires in rapid succession. Former Lion group technology and digital transformation director Ram Kalyanasundaram joins as chief information and digital officer, while Bharath Venkataraman, ex‑head of data at Freedom Australia,...
Cisco: AI Growth Is Turning Wi-Fi Into Enterprise Infrastructure
Cisco's 2026 State of Wireless Report shows AI is turning Wi‑Fi into a core enterprise infrastructure. While Wi‑Fi 5 still powers 43% of networks, organizations deploying AI are far more likely (62%) to treat wireless as strategic. The survey finds 78%...
How Broadcom’s VMware Buy Meant a ‘Fundamental Shift’ for County Tech
Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of VMware has triggered a fundamental shift for U.S. county governments. Since the November 2023 deal, Broadcom has altered VMware’s licensing model, pushed larger subscription bundles, and raised prices dramatically. County IT leaders report slower support response times...
Former Newrez CIO Takes Same Position at Union Home Mortgage
Union Home Mortgage announced the appointment of Dino Lack as its new chief information officer. Lack brings 21 years of mortgage‑technology experience, previously serving as CIO at Newrez and senior product roles at Caliber Home Loans and LoanDepot. He will...
Netskope Launches AI Agents for SOC and NOC Automation
Netskope unveiled AgentSkope, an AI‑driven framework embedded in its Netskope One SASE platform, to automate security and network operations. The solution targets the chronic alert fatigue in SOCs and NOCs, where 40% of alerts go uninvestigated, by deploying six specialized...
Cybersecurity Professionals Need to Think Like Business Leaders
Cybersecurity leaders are urged to abandon pure technical jargon and speak the language of revenue and risk to secure board support. The article outlines a three‑step framework—frame outcomes, present two options, and make a recommendation—to win budget and executive buy‑in....
Cayosoft Adds Microsoft Migration Services
Cayosoft announced Microsoft Migration Services, a comprehensive offering that guides enterprises through end‑to‑end identity and collaboration migrations across Active Directory, Entra ID, and Microsoft 365. Delivered with XMS Solutions, the service covers assessment, phased execution, data‑integrity validation, and post‑migration monitoring, governance, and...
MSPs Get AI Workforce to Scale Managed Security
WatchGuard unveiled Rai, an agentic AI digital workforce for managed service providers that automates detection, investigation and response tasks. Positioned as a shift from assistive to autonomous AI, Rai operates continuously, taking pre‑authorized actions and logging them via the WatchGuard...
Kubernetes Finally Lands User Namespace Support, but Shared Kernel Problem Remains
Kubernetes 1.36 introduces general‑availability user namespace support, allowing pods to remap root to an unprivileged host UID. This mitigates several high‑severity CVEs by limiting the impact of container escapes and lateral movement. However, all containers still share the same Linux...
ServiceNow Knowledge 2026 - Vantage Towers Adopts ServiceNow to Manage 55,000 Landlords and Redefines How It Measures Success
Vantage Towers, which operates 88,000 telecom sites across Europe, has migrated its 55,000 landlord relationships onto ServiceNow’s Lyra platform. The new system consolidates multiple communication channels and pulls SAP and asset data into a single interface, cutting resolution times from...
HPE Pushes Self-Driving Networks Into Production
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has moved its long‑promised self‑driving network from concept to production, embedding autonomous actions into the Mist AI and Aruba platforms. The rollout focuses on high‑frequency, low‑risk problems such as wireless congestion, VLAN misconfigurations and rogue DHCP servers,...
Switch Storm Coming: Gartner Forecasts Price Hikes, Long Lead Times for Enterprise Data Center Switches
Gartner warns that enterprise data‑center switch markets are entering a storm as vendors divert engineering talent, memory and laser resources toward high‑margin AI infrastructure. The shift will push AI‑focused network fabric spending past traditional data‑center networks by 2026 and more...
South Africa’s Patching Problem Is About to Get Worse
South African enterprises are already missing patch windows for traditional software, and the rollout of autonomous AI agents threatens to widen that gap. TrendAI’s Zaheer Ebrahim warns that AI agents can be hijacked through hidden email instructions, bypassing malware defenses....
OpenAI, Anthropic Expand Services Push, Signaling New Phase in Enterprise AI Race
OpenAI and Anthropic are moving beyond pure model licensing, targeting the implementation layer traditionally handled by systems integrators. OpenAI’s venture is in advanced stages of three acquisitions of AI services firms, while Anthropic is launching an enterprise‑AI services company backed...
How UKG Puts AI to Work for Frontline Employees
UKG, a leading HR tech platform serving 80,000 firms, is deploying agentic AI, voice agents and an autonomous People Assist tool to improve frontline worker experiences. The company uses a democratized innovation framework that lets power users submit ideas, with...
Federal Data Center Requirements: A Guide for Upgrading Existing Facilities
The U.S. Office of Management & Budget’s Data Center Optimization Initiative is pushing federal agencies toward secure, efficient colocation, prompting data‑center operators to upgrade existing facilities to meet government standards. Operators must assess current physical structure, MEP systems and security...
DTX Manchester 2026: From AI-Driven Execution to Shared Cyber Responsibility
DTX Manchester 2026 underscored that modern enterprise success hinges on aligning AI‑driven execution, automation and cybersecurity governance. Footprint IT unveiled OutpaceAI, an autonomous execution engine designed to eliminate manual bottlenecks and scale output without adding headcount. Celerity demonstrated how automated...
AI to Help Mainframes Remain Business Critical in 2026
Mainframes remain critical, handling 90% of credit‑card transactions and supporting over 70% of global enterprises. Companies are shifting from risky big‑bang migrations to incremental, API‑enabled hybrid modernization that connects mainframes to cloud environments. AI models now run directly on mainframes,...
Workday’s Moat Is Real—But AI Is Testing Its Limits
Workday’s competitive moat rests on deep structural lock‑in, including multi‑year contracts, intricate payroll‑finance‑identity integrations, and a proprietary configuration layer that drives implementations costing up to $1 million and lasting 6‑18 months. Analyst Joe Schmidt warns that AI‑native entrants could undermine these...
The Illusion of Digital Sovereignty and the Reality of Control
The article argues that digital sovereignty is often an illusion because most firms rely on external cloud platforms they cannot control. While 98% of IT leaders say sovereignty is a priority, half lack a formal strategy, and 94% deem open...
H&M Names New CIO
Swedish fashion retailer H&M Group announced the appointment of Diego Teijeiro Ruiz as its new Chief Information Officer, effective May 25. Teijeiro Ruiz brings extensive experience in large‑scale digital transformation, positioning H&M to accelerate its AI‑driven e‑commerce and supply‑chain modernization. The...
The Virtualization Pivot and Why Enterprise IT’s Next Move Will Determine the Next Decade
At Red Hat Summit, enterprise IT leaders will confront a pivotal question: is their legacy virtualization platform still fit for an AI‑driven future? IDC predicts over a billion new applications by 2028, forcing firms into a costly dual‑stack of VMs and...
The Liquidity Moat: Why Infrastructure Performance Is the New Frontier in Market Competition
Infrastructure performance has become the primary competitive moat for crypto exchanges. Stable, microsecond‑level latency and deterministic uptime attract institutional liquidity, while inconsistencies cause liquidity drain. Recent market stress in October 2025 showed that outages can cost $5‑$20 million per hour and trigger...
Supply-Chain Attacks Take Aim at Your AI Coding Agents
AI coding agents that automatically pull packages from registries are now being weaponized by supply‑chain attackers. Researchers at ReversingLabs identified the PromptMink campaign, attributed to North Korea’s Famous Chollima APT group, which plants persuasive bait packages and malicious dependencies to trick...
New VA OIG CIO Aims for Mission-Centered Approach to Oversight
Lance Jenkinson has been appointed chief information officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General (VA OIG). A veteran federal technologist, he previously led enterprise IT and program‑management initiatives for the War Department and other agencies. Jenkinson...
IBM Makes Digital Sovereignty Operational with General Availability of IBM Sovereign Core
IBM announced the general availability of IBM Sovereign Core, a software platform that lets enterprises and governments build AI‑ready sovereign environments and verify control. The solution embeds a customer‑operated control plane, in‑boundary identity and encryption, continuous compliance monitoring, and governed...
Google, Microsoft and xAI’s Frontier AI to Face National Security Testing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has signed new agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI to conduct pre‑deployment and ongoing security evaluations of their frontier AI models. The move expands earlier...
Edge Browser Leaves Passwords Exposed in Plain Text, Says Researcher
A Norwegian researcher discovered that Microsoft Edge’s password manager decrypts and stores saved passwords in plain text within the browser’s process memory, even after the browser is closed and reopened. Microsoft responded that this design balances performance and security, claiming...
AWS, IBM Boost Mainframe-Cloud Interoperability
AWS and IBM announced a joint effort to simplify hybrid‑cloud integration between AWS services and IBM Z mainframes. The partnership outlines five reference patterns, including real‑time data streaming enabled by IBM’s $11 billion acquisition of Confluent. AI‑driven tools such as AWS Transform...
Why Security Leadership Makes or Breaks a Pen Test
Penetration testing delivers real security value only when leadership sets clear scope, threat focus, and stakeholder alignment before the engagement and drives disciplined follow‑up afterward. Experts stress that testers need autonomy during the test, but the pre‑test decisions dictate relevance...
CIOs Must Turn IT Finance Into A Value Engine
CIOs face mounting pressure to justify tech spend and accelerate AI, yet IT finance remains entrenched in cost‑reporting rather than outcome‑driven analysis. Forrester’s 2026 State of IT Finance shows most finance teams still measure success by spend visibility and TCO,...