CIO Dive
News and analysis for IT executives covering cloud, big data, security, software, and more
Why Non-Production Data Is Becoming Enterprises’ Biggest Compliance Blind Spot
Enterprises are facing a surge in sensitive data sprawl across non‑production environments as DevOps velocity, analytics workloads, and AI training pipelines multiply data copies. The Perforce Delphix 2025 State of Data Compliance and Security Report shows 60% of organizations suffered breaches in these environments last year, while 95% saw growth in sensitive data outside production. Yet 84% still permit compliance exceptions, treating temporary shortcuts as the norm. Vendors like Delphix propose a closed‑loop governance model that automates masking, synthetic data generation, and policy enforcement to protect data without slowing development.
Why BlackRock’s AI Strategy Starts with Data Ownership and Meaning
BlackRock’s AI roadmap begins with data ownership and meaning rather than model hype. The firm treats data as a product, assigning clear custodians, documented lineage, and consistent definitions. It has adopted a federated data model powered by Snowflake, enabling secure,...
Cumberland Farms Taps Murphy USA Tech Chief as New CIO
Cumberland Farms announced the appointment of Michael Verdesca as its global chief information officer, a move disclosed in the company’s first‑quarter earnings release. Verdesca arrives from Murphy USA, where he spent over five years steering technology strategy for one of...
Snowflake Targets AI Agent Adoption with AWS Deal, Acquisition
Snowflake announced a $6 billion, five‑year infrastructure commitment with Amazon Web Services to power its enterprise AI workloads. At the same time, the data‑cloud company acquired Natoma, a Model Context Protocol platform that adds an identity and governance layer for AI...
Enterprises Risk Agentic AI Failure Under ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Governance
Enterprises that apply a one‑size‑fits‑all AI governance model are seeing higher failure rates for autonomous agents, according to a Gartner report. By 2027, Gartner predicts 40 % of companies will decommission agents because they failed to separate an agent’s capabilities from...
CIOs Tackle Hybrid Roles, Blending Business Outcomes with IT
CIOs are increasingly adopting hybrid titles that blend traditional IT stewardship with responsibilities for digital, data, product, and transformation functions. Boards and CEOs are demanding measurable business outcomes, prompting executives to move closer to customers and the C‑suite. Surveys show...
How Tech Chiefs Can Guide Enterprise AI Pilots to Success
Enterprise AI pilots often stall before delivering value, prompting CIOs to refine success criteria. Leaders like Corning's Soumya Seetharam highlight early wins when teams cross‑check AI forecasts against legacy processes, while Westlake CIO Mark Schmidt stresses the need for a...
CIOs Need a People Strategy to Scale AI
CIOs are being urged to treat AI as a people problem as much as a technology one. At the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, leaders like Travelers’ CTO and Liberty Mutual’s CIO highlighted a 1:3 spend ratio, emphasizing cultural and skill...
Anthropic Unseats OpenAI in the Enterprise as AI Model Spending Spikes
Anthropic’s Claude models overtook OpenAI’s GPT suite in enterprise adoption for the first time, according to Ramp’s analysis of payments from over 50,000 businesses. In April, Claude was used by more than one‑third of Ramp’s customers, while OpenAI’s share slipped...
The ERP Problem that AI Was Built to Solve
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) modernization has long been costly and risky, with SAP migrations for Fortune 500 firms often spanning three to five years and costing $100‑$500 million. Roughly 70% of large transformation programs fail, prompting CIOs to defer upgrades despite looming...
CIOs Under Pressure as Disruptions Mount
CIOs, CTOs and chief AI officers are feeling heightened pressure, with 67% tasked to improve customer experience amid geopolitical and supply‑chain turbulence, according to KPMG’s Adaptability Pulse Survey of 1,120 executives. The same study shows that proactive, enterprise‑wide strategies are...
XAI Joins Crowded Coding Agent Race with Grok Build
Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grok Build, an agentic command‑line coding assistant, in early beta for SuperGrok Heavy’s $300 per‑month subscribers. The tool lets developers generate, modify and automate code via natural language, delegating tasks to parallel sub‑agents. Grok Build enters a...
Google Cloud Is Hiring an Army of AI Deployment Engineers
Google Cloud announced 59 new forward‑deployed AI engineering roles across the U.S. and key global hubs, offering base salaries between $127,000 and $183,000. The move is backed by a $750 million investment to expand a high‑touch engineering model for enterprise customers....
AI Investment Outpaces Employee Skills
A Randstad Digital study of 27,000 digital workers and 1,225 employers finds that while two‑thirds of firms have invested in AI in the past year, about half of tech professionals are seeking independent training because employers lag. Companies spend more...
Levi’s Migrates to Standardized Global ERP Platform
Levi Strauss & Co. has migrated over 80% of its global business processes onto SAP S/4 Fashion, retiring more than 90 legacy systems and consolidating 2,600 employees onto a single cloud‑based ERP platform. The new system embeds AI agents that...