EU Lawmakers Fail to Agree on Watered-Down AI Act, Talks Pushed to May
EU lawmakers and member states failed to reach a compromise on a softened AI Act, leaving a key exemption for AI in already‑regulated products unresolved. The 12‑hour trilogue ended without an agreement, pushing the next round of talks to May. If no deal is struck by August 2, the original high‑risk AI obligations will apply as originally drafted. The deadline to push back compliance dates remains, while technical standards are still not ready.
Designing the AI-Native Cloud: What Enterprise Architects Are Learning the Hard Way
Enterprise architects are confronting a paradigm shift as generative AI forces cloud environments to become AI‑native. Traditional CPU‑centric designs struggle with the massive GPU compute, high‑throughput data pipelines, and real‑time inference demands of large language models. Organizations are moving toward...
Your AI Agent Is Ready to Go. Is Your Infrastructure?
TransUnion has spent $145 million building the OneTru platform, a hybrid architecture that couples traditional expert systems with generative AI, and has already generated $200 million in cost savings. The platform powers the AI Analytics Orchestrator Agent, leveraging Google Gemini to let...
How IFS Softeon Plans to Use AI to Help Manage Stock Within the Warehouse and Beyond
Industrial software vendor IFS completed its acquisition of warehouse‑management specialist Softeon, bringing AI‑enhanced WMS capabilities into the IFS Cloud. CEO Jim Hoefflin says the combined suite will link real‑time inventory visibility with distributed order management, allowing dynamic allocation, SLA‑aware routing...
Davinia Simon Joins Databricks as A/NZ Public Sector Lead
Databricks has appointed Davinia Simon as the public‑sector lead for Australia and New Zealand, tasked with shaping the company’s regional government strategy. Simon will target agencies in New South Wales and Queensland, driving data‑platform modernization, advanced analytics and AI‑enabled services. Her two‑decade track...
TCS and ASX Go-Live with CHESS Release 1
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) have successfully gone live with Release 1 of the CHESS Replacement Project, a cornerstone of ASX’s digital transformation. The new clearing solution, built on TCS BaNCS and the Quartz Gateway, is...
BlueAPACHE Partners with NinjaOne to Strengthen Services Delivery
blueAPACHE announced a strategic partnership with NinjaOne, embedding the latter’s unified IT operations platform into its managed‑services framework. The integration will enable remote monitoring, automated patching, secure access and proactive remediation across client environments. blueAPACHE will first run NinjaOne‑enabled services...
The Vendor Support Trap.
Enterprise middleware often runs for a decade or more on perpetual licences, but vendors label older versions as end‑of‑support (EOS), prompting costly upgrade cycles. Third‑party support providers can keep these systems secure and compliant beyond EOS, eliminating the need for...
One New Zealand’s Strategic Shift to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
One New Zealand, after splitting from Vodafone Group, launched the C1 Program to modernize its telco core by adopting Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. The move replaces a dual‑stack of legacy VMs and containers with a unified Kubernetes‑native platform, using Red Hat’s Virtual Migration...
Why Backing Up Your Microsoft 365 Data Is Only Half the Job
Microsoft 365 has transformed from a suite of web apps into the enterprise’s central control plane, intertwining identity, collaboration, security, and workflow. While Microsoft secures the underlying platform, customers now shoulder configuration, access delegation, and governance responsibilities. A breach at a...
Allina Health Cybersecurity Chief Joins Baylor Scott & White
William Scandrett, former vice president and chief information security officer at Allina Health, has been appointed vice president of information security and chief information security officer at Baylor Scott & White Health. Scandrett announced the move on LinkedIn on April 28, highlighting his...
One Year After CVE-2025-31324: Lessons for ERP Security Leaders
One year after SAP disclosed CVE-2025-31324, the flaw continues to be exploited long after the vendor released a patch. Onapsis reports the vulnerability ranked among the three most frequently abused weaknesses of 2025, alongside Oracle E‑Business Suite and Microsoft SharePoint....
Monte Carlo Report Finds 64% of Enterprises Deployed AI Agents Before They Were Ready
Monte Carlo’s 2026 report of 260 enterprise leaders reveals that 64% of large firms have pushed AI agents into production before they felt ready, and the figure jumps to 75% among engineers directly responsible for the systems. Nearly half of...
Federal CIO Cautious on Anthropic’s Mythos Despite Planned Rollout
Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia said the government will proceed with a measured rollout of Anthropic’s Mythos AI model, noting its promise for bolstering cyber defenses while emphasizing lingering uncertainties about real‑world performance. He has only seen lab‑based evaluations and no...
Rethinking Infrastructure Investments for the AI Era
Enterprises chasing AI must juggle faster‑changing GPU and network cycles with longer‑lasting legacy servers, creating misaligned hardware lifecycles. The traditional three‑to‑five‑year refresh model no longer fits, prompting firms to commit to multi‑year, $130 million‑scale deals before knowing if the equipment matches...
SLED Leaders: Use IT Spend Management To Manage Budget Pressures
Forrester introduced an IT spend management framework tailored for state, local, and education (SLED) agencies. A recent survey shows 67% of SLED leaders expect IT budgets to grow, though growth lags the private sector, while 80% see opportunities to shave...
Citi Taps Former Google Exec as CIO
Citigroup appointed former Google VP Brian Saluzzo as chief information officer in March. Saluzzo brings four years of experience leading core developer engineering and product management at Google to help Citi scale AI and finish its transformation. The hire aligns...
Axians UK: Digital Transformation Has No Deadline
Axians UK executive Chris Gilmour warns that digital transformation is a mindset shift rather than a one‑off capital expense. Companies often rush to adopt the latest technology but neglect cultural change, leading to failed initiatives. Gilmour stresses that transformation is...
Should IT Use Apple Business Manager without MDM?
Apple Business Manager (ABM) streamlines the enrollment of iOS and iPadOS devices by pre‑loading a chosen mobile device management (MDM) app at the point of purchase. The service also centralizes Apple ID provisioning, bulk app purchases, and device inventory visibility. While...
Neoclouds: What They Are and How They Cut ERP Cloud Costs
AI is moving from pilot projects into core ERP processes, inflating cloud compute demand and turning cloud spend into a volatile operating cost. Global cloud infrastructure spending hit $110.9 billion in Q4 2025, while 88% of CFOs report rising cloud budgets. Specialized...
In An AI World, High-Performance IT Is Mandatory For Business Success
Technology leaders face accelerating disruption from AI, geopolitical volatility, technical debt, and cost pressure, prompting a shift from incremental IT upgrades to high‑performance IT (HPIT). Forrester defines HPIT as a strategic, business‑aligned approach that continuously improves results by coupling core...
Why ERP and AI Initiatives Stall at the Execution Layer: A CIO Perspective
Higher education CIOs are grappling with a new bottleneck: turning ERP and AI‑generated insights into coordinated action. While modern systems can surface risk alerts, enrollment trends, and financial anomalies, decision ownership and cross‑functional execution often remain unclear. The resulting delays...
The Storage Modernization Imperative in a Fast-Changing IT Landscape
Enterprise storage is undergoing a rapid modernization push, with 80% of IT leaders saying it’s critical to overall IT effectiveness. AI workloads are now the primary driver of storage budget growth, demanding higher performance and tighter integration with data teams....
Cequence Agent Personas Bring Granular Control and Governance to Enterprise AI Agents
Cequence Security has launched Agent Personas in its AI Gateway, giving enterprises fine‑grained, infrastructure‑level control over AI agents’ tool usage. The feature lets admins define a plain‑English job description that translates into a scoped virtual MCP endpoint, limiting each agent...
Microsoft to Deprecate Legacy TLS in Exchange Online Starting July
Microsoft will begin blocking TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 for POP and IMAP connections to Exchange Online in July 2026, forcing all traffic to use TLS 1.2 or higher. The move follows a multi‑year industry effort to retire outdated cryptography. Most Exchange Online users...
Inside Semperis: Response and Recovery After Identity System Attacks
Semperis, founded in 2015, offers identity‑driven cyber resilience that focuses on rapid recovery of Active Directory and other identity platforms after breaches. Its patented Active Directory Forest Recovery can slash downtime by up to 90%, turning a multi‑day outage into...
Why Secure Data Movement Is the Zero Trust Bottleneck Nobody Talks About
Everfox’s new Cyber360 report reveals that data movement, not identity or endpoints, is the hidden bottleneck in Zero Trust implementations. Eighty‑four percent of government security leaders view cross‑network data sharing as a top cyber risk, yet 53% still use manual...
MITRE Warns Cloud-Based Medical Devices Face Cascading Ransomware Risk Across Health Systems
MITRE’s April 2026 white papers warn that cloud‑native medical devices create a cascade effect for ransomware, as a single cloud outage can disrupt dozens of hospitals. The reports highlight shared‑responsibility gaps among device makers, health systems, and cloud providers, and call...
The Inference Bill Nobody Budgeted For
Enterprises are confronting an unexpected surge in AI inference spend, now expected to represent two‑thirds of all AI compute by 2026. While public‑cloud pricing has fallen, recursive agentic loops and unsanctioned tool usage generate hundreds of millions in waste, and...
How Collaboration Technology Defines the Next Phase of Hybrid Work
Hybrid work is prompting a shift from fragmented tools to integrated collaboration environments. Meeting rooms are being treated as managed IT assets, with utilization and uptime metrics driving proactive support. Artificial intelligence has moved from novelty to necessity, delivering automatic...
Deconstructing the Data Center: A Massive (and Massively Liberating) Project
PPG, a 143‑year‑old paints and coatings maker, dismantled its eight global data centers between 2022 and November 2025, moving all workloads to public cloud hyperscalers. The effort required a full audit, phased migration, and simultaneous application modernization to avoid downtime...
The Biggest Missed Opportunities for CIOs in the AI Era
Many CIOs have deployed multiple AI tools but struggle to show promised ROI because the solutions operate in isolation. The article argues that the real missed opportunity is AI orchestration—linking agents, data, and workflows—to turn silos into a unified, governed...
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Goes Live with eObservations and Bleep System Replacement
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with eObservations in its emergency department, enabling clinicians to capture vital signs on iPads and view results instantly. At the same time, the trust replaced its ageing bleep system with Alertive,...
Microsoft, OpenAI Change Contract Terms — Again
Microsoft and OpenAI announced a revised partnership that drops the exclusivity clause and changes revenue‑sharing terms. OpenAI can now deliver its models on any cloud, while Microsoft retains a non‑exclusive license to the IP through 2032 and will no longer...
Bed Bath & Beyond Names Kyla Robinson Chief Technology Transformation Officer
Bed Bath & Beyond has appointed Kyla Robinson as chief technology transformation officer, reporting to President Amy Sullivan. Robinson will lead the development of a unified technology and data platform that connects the retailer’s omnichannel retail, home services, financial products,...
Orro Launches Exposure Management Service with AI-Powered Platform
Orro has launched a Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) service built on the Rapid7 Command platform and powered by AI. The solution aggregates data from more than 100 security tools and applies business context to shift focus from raw vulnerability...
DCMS Offers £125k for CDIO to Helm Microsoft Switch
The UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is recruiting a new chief digital and information officer (CDIO) with a salary of roughly £125,000 (about $155,000). The role will steer a major technology shift, moving DCMS services from Google...
GSA Taps Greg Hogan as Head of Government’s Identity Proofing Service, Login.gov
The General Services Administration has named Greg Hogan, former OPM chief information officer, as the new director of Login.gov, the federal identity‑proofing platform. Login.gov, which enables a single verified account for dozens of government services, already supports more than 150 million...
World ID Makes Case for Enterprise-Scale Authentication, but some Aren’t Buying It
World ID, the iris‑scanning identity platform co‑founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, announced new enterprise‑grade features and partnerships with Zoom, DocuSign, Shopify, Okta, Tinder and VanEck. The upgrade adds multi‑key support, account‑based architecture, key rotation, recovery and session management to...
Thales First to Deploy SAP Cloud ERP on S3NS Sovereign Cloud in France
Thales has become the first enterprise to run SAP Cloud ERP Private on S3NS’s PREMI3NS sovereign cloud platform in France. The joint Thales‑Google Cloud venture aligns with the SecNumCloud 3.2 certification, ensuring data residency, encryption and French jurisdictional control. SAP...
EU Funds Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure with €180 Million Contract
The European Commission has allocated roughly $195 million to launch a six‑year sovereign cloud programme, selecting Post Telecom, STACKIT, Scaleway and Proximus as the four contract winners. The deal obliges each provider to satisfy the EU’s eight‑point Cloud Sovereignty Framework covering...
Enterprises Face New Storage Bottlenecks as AI Grows
Enterprises adopting AI are hitting storage bottlenecks because traditional, transaction‑oriented storage cannot keep up with the massive, unstructured data and unpredictable access patterns of machine‑learning workloads. Vendors are responding by shifting from SATA/SAS SSDs to NVMe flash, deploying NVMe‑over‑Fabrics, and...
Inside Merck's Google Cloud Partnership - Data, People, and Not Chasing Shiny Tools
Merck (MSD) announced a multi‑year, up‑to‑$1 billion partnership with Google Cloud to build an agentic AI platform across its R&D, manufacturing and commercial functions. The deal focuses on co‑investing in data integration, process redesign and workforce upskilling rather than simply selling...
The Best Network Upgrade Is the One that Lets a Smaller Team Do More
Enterprises must stop measuring network upgrades by feature lists and start judging them on how AI agents embedded in the infrastructure amplify a smaller team’s output. Modern networks are becoming a workforce productivity issue, with CIOs needing platforms that reduce...
AI PCs, Endpoint Security and the End of Time-Based Refresh Cycles
Enterprises are moving AI workloads from the cloud to the endpoint, giving rise to the AI PC – a laptop or desktop equipped with on‑device neural processing units. Analysts project AI PCs will capture 55 % of the PC market by...
Slow Down to Speed Up: Why Steadfast IT Leadership Is Critical in the Age of AI
The article argues that steady IT leadership and disciplined governance are essential for sustainable AI adoption. Canadian data shows 87% of tech leaders anticipate faster AI cycles, yet 75% still rely on structured pilots to manage risk. Nearly half of...
The $700 Million Question: How Cyber Risk Became a Market Cap Problem
Cyber risk has moved from an IT‑only concern to a market‑cap driver, as regulators now require near‑real‑time breach disclosures and investors treat incidents as material financial events. A 5% stock decline on a $14 billion firm translates to roughly $700 million erased...
Large UK Companies in the Dark About How Their Data Is Used Overseas by AI
Large UK corporations are increasingly uncertain about how their proprietary data is being accessed and processed by artificial‑intelligence systems located abroad. A recent industry survey reveals that most firms lack clear visibility into cross‑border data flows, leaving them vulnerable to...
Drones and Data Centers: The AI Boom Is Outpacing Security Protocol
The AI surge is driving a $7 trillion data‑center build‑out by 2030, but the rapid proliferation of over one million U.S. drones is exposing a critical security gap. Existing physical‑security models lack airspace protection, and FAA/FCC rules prevent kinetic countermeasures, leaving...
Backup Under Attack
Ransomware groups are now targeting backup repositories, forcing organizations to reassess their data‑protection strategies. Many firms rely on immutable storage, but the protection often depends on policy settings that can be overridden by privileged users. Andy French of Object First explains...