CIO Dive
News and analysis for IT executives covering cloud, big data, security, software, and more
When It Comes to AI Spend Management, CIOs Are Not Alone
Enterprise FinOps teams, originally focused on cloud cost control, are now extending their remit to AI spend management. About 64% of these teams measure success by business value delivered, and nearly 80% report directly to the CIO, highlighting the strategic importance of AI governance. However, only 7.5% of organizations embed FinOps into AI projects, leading 41% of firms to waste more than 15% of their AI budgets. The rapid proliferation of AI agents—projected to reach billions by 2026—adds urgency to establishing standards and inventories.
CIOs Fret over Rising Security Concerns Amid AI Adoption
A Logicalis survey of more than 1,000 CIOs reveals AI is now viewed as a top security threat, with over a quarter ranking it alongside malware, ransomware and phishing. 57% say employee misuse of AI jeopardizes data, yet only 37% have...
C-Suite Boosts Tech Investments Despite Lagging ROI
A PwC survey of 633 C‑suite leaders shows almost 40% plan to increase technology and AI spending to counter geopolitical and economic volatility. The move ranks as the top strategic action for 73% of respondents, despite only about one‑in‑five executives...
Bank of America Tech Chief Shares AI Strategy Focus
Bank of America is scaling its artificial‑intelligence program from isolated pilots to enterprise‑wide process transformation. The bank has earmarked 30% of its $13.5 billion technology budget for AI, and more than 90% of its 213,000 staff now use the Erica virtual...
Employee Worries over AI Job Loss Clash Against Immature Adoption
CIOs are accelerating AI pilots, with global corporate spend reaching $582 billion in 2025, more than double the previous year. The 2026 AI Index Report finds a third of organizations expect workforce reductions within the next year, yet most AI adoption...
AWS Launches Agent Registry to Tackle Enterprise AI Sprawl
Amazon Web Services introduced Agent Registry, a centralized catalog for building, storing, and governing AI agents across frameworks. The service, now in preview via the Bedrock AgentCore console, is live in five compute regions and offers searchable records with ownership,...
‘Memflation’ Pushes Semiconductor Market Across $1.3 Trillion Threshold
Gartner projects global semiconductor revenues to surpass $1.3 trillion in 2026, a 64% jump from 2025, and to reach $1.6 trillion in 2027. The surge in AI‑driven demand is inflating memory prices, with DRAM expected to rise 125% and NAND flash 243%...
Why Securing GenAI Use Starts in the Browser
Enterprise adoption of generative AI has exploded, with daily usage rising nearly 60% in a year and weekly use tripling over two years. Employees now spend more than 80% of their workday in browsers, turning the browser into the primary...
Forget the Technical Implications of AI – How We Procure and Demand Business Outcomes Is Forever Changed
Enterprises are moving from static licensed software to programmable, context‑rich infrastructure that embeds identity, policy and compliance. As compute, storage and many software features become commoditized, value shifts from feature checklists to measurable business outcomes. Vendors must redesign contracts, pricing...
Introducing the First End-to-End Enterprise Agentic Quality Platform
Tricentis unveiled the first end‑to‑end agentic quality engineering platform, a unified suite of AI agents that automate test planning, creation, execution and performance validation. The platform, orchestrated through Tricentis AI Workspace, embeds governance, auditability and contextual knowledge across roughly 200...
AI Infrastructure Budgets Set to Triple as Demand Soars: Deloitte
Deloitte’s latest report finds AI infrastructure spending will triple for most U.S. enterprises by 2028 as automation demand surges. The survey of 515 firms shows nearly half are running more than 30 AI pilots, and Deloitte projects 70% will have...
Pep Boys Names CIO to Drive Technology Strategy
Pep Boys, operating roughly 800 locations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, appointed Nik Umrani as chief information officer to steer its technology agenda. Umrani, formerly CIO of Novacore and a veteran of Comcast, ADT and Verizon, will craft an end‑to‑end...
Amazon CEO Makes a Case for Aggressive AI Spending Spree
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reaffirmed a $200 billion capital‑expenditure plan through fiscal 2026 to eliminate a compute bottleneck that threatens AWS growth. He framed AI as a once‑in‑a‑lifetime opportunity and pledged aggressive spending on data‑center infrastructure, chips and networking. AWS’s chip...
Unstructured Data Is Piling up as AI Risks Rise
A new Thales report, based on a survey of 210 IT and security leaders, finds that more than half of enterprises lack full visibility into their unstructured data estates, and 68% say most of that data remains unprotected. Only 9%...
Sysco CIO to Depart as C-Suite Turnover Continues
Tom Peck, Sysco Corp.'s EVP and chief information and digital officer, is resigning effective April 10, ending a five‑year tenure that oversaw the company’s digital transformation. Navin Advani, currently CIO for the Americas, will serve as interim CIO, ensuring continuity of...
