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News•Feb 25, 2026
App Sprawl Bogs Down Operations, Fuels Shadow IT Growth
Torii’s 2026 SaaS Benchmark Report reveals that large enterprises now run an average of 2,191 applications, with more than 61% of those tools operating without formal IT approval. AI experimentation is intensifying the problem, as employees juggle roughly 40 apps each and only 15% of discovered applications are fully sanctioned. The rapid influx of unsanctioned AI‑driven tools is inflating security risks and driving millions in wasted SaaS spend. CIOs must rethink governance models to keep pace with this accelerated shadow‑IT growth.
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News•Feb 24, 2026
Why Chief AI Officers Need to Become Change Agents
Chief AI Officers (CAIOs) are evolving from technical overseers to enterprise change agents, tasked with accelerating AI experiments while managing risk. Companies are shifting focus from low failure rates to high‑velocity learning, recognizing that each experiment adds strategic insight. The...
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News•Feb 18, 2026
Albertsons Outlines Top 4 AI Priorities
Albertsons announced four AI priorities for fiscal 2026—digital customer experience, merchandising, labor, and supply chain—backed by a full cloud migration and unified data platform. Chief technology officer Anuj Dhanda emphasized these are long‑term investments already delivering measurable impact, such as...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Neoclouds Capture Growing AI Workload Traffic, Backblaze Says
Backblaze’s Q4 2025 network report reveals a sharp rise in AI‑driven traffic to GPU‑centric neocloud providers, peaking in October before settling at a higher baseline. The surge was concentrated in US‑East data centers, highlighting latency‑sensitive AI data movement. Analysts from McKinsey...
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News•Jan 20, 2026
Why Multicloud Needs a New Definition
Nathan Thomas, Oracle's VP of multicloud, argues that the term "multicloud" has become too vague and proposes a concrete definition. He notes that early multicloud efforts left integration, procurement and support fragmented, forcing customers to stitch solutions together. Recent vendor...
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News•Jan 15, 2026
IBM Tackles Cloud, AI Sovereignty with New Platform
IBM announced Sovereign Core, a software platform that lets enterprises run cloud and AI workloads under their own sovereign control. The solution embeds data‑localization and governance controls directly into the software, offering a customer‑operated control plane. Available in tech preview...
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News•Jan 14, 2026
Kroger Taps Google Gemini, Announces More Key AI Moves
Kroger announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud, deploying Gemini Enterprise’s Customer Experience solution as a personal shopping assistant. The AI‑driven assistant can generate shoppable recipes, recommend offers, and schedule deliveries using Kroger’s real‑time inventory and pricing data. Kroger also...
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News•Jan 14, 2026
Banks Aim for Agentic AI Scale in 2026: Report
Banks are accelerating the deployment of agentic AI in 2026, leveraging cloud platforms to build brand‑aligned, compliant AI agents. Accenture forecasts that 57% of banking executives will embed agents in risk, compliance, audit, fraud detection, and transaction monitoring, while 56%...
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News•Jan 12, 2026
Neoclouds Size up Enterprise Opportunities
Neocloud providers saw revenue surge 205% YoY in Q2 2025, positioning the segment to exceed $23 billion this year and target nearly $180 billion by 2030. Hybrid‑cloud adoption and AI workload growth are driving enterprises toward specialized AI clouds that can undercut hyperscalers...
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News•Jan 12, 2026
Embrace AI Curiosity or Fail: How Maia Proves AI Is More than Hype
Matillion’s CEO Matthew Scullion argues AI is a digital industrial revolution, not a fleeting hype cycle. He warns that 95% of generative AI projects fail because organizations treat adoption as a technical problem rather than a human‑behavior challenge. Matillion’s agentic...
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News•Jan 9, 2026
Flexera Expands Its FinOps Footprint to Take on Data Cloud Costs
Flexera announced the acquisition of ProsperOps and Chaos Genius, adding AI‑driven billing‑rate optimization and data‑cloud spend‑management to its portfolio. The moves extend Flexera’s FinOps suite, which already includes NetApp Spot and Snow Software, to cover cloud, SaaS, containers and emerging...
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News•Jan 8, 2026
Delta CIO to Retire After a Decade of Service
Delta Chief Information Officer Rahul Samant is retiring after a decade of steering the airline’s technology transformation, including a major cloud migration and resilience upgrades. Effective March 1, 2026, Amala Duggirala will assume the newly created chief digital and technology...
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Deals•Dec 18, 2025
Red Hat Acquires AI Governance Specialist Chatterbox Labs
Red Hat announced the acquisition of London‑based AI risk‑management firm Chatterbox Labs, aiming to strengthen its AI governance and security portfolio. The terms were not disclosed, but the deal adds model testing and generative AI guardrails to Red Hat’s enterprise...
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