Cloud Computing

AI changed our cloud strategy. Quantum changes the questions behind it

AI shifted cloud strategy from basic architecture to operations, while quantum computing now demands long-term risk management and decision infrastructure.

By Maman Ibrahim

Jul 8, 20269 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT StrategyQuantum Computing

By Maxwell Cooter

Jul 3, 20262 mins

Cloud ComputingData GovernanceData Management

Microsoft and Amazon devote billions of dollars to thousands of FDEs

By Taryn Plumb

Jul 2, 20267 mins

Amazon Web ServicesIaaSMicrosoft

AWS aims to lower log analytics costs with new analytics engine for managed OpenSearch

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 1, 20264 mins

Amazon Web ServicesAnalyticsIaaS

Articles

The 8 biggest issues IT faces today

Getting value from AI has become a central concern for IT leaders. But the need to secure, modernize, and transform the enterprise remain key challenges with new nuances that are also reshaping CIOs’ IT agendas.

By Mary K. Pratt

Jun 22, 2026 12 mins

CIODigital TransformationGenerative AI

5 things CIOs must do as sovereignty becomes a design constraint

As the global landscape becomes more fragmented, CIOs are redefining sourcing, architecture, and control.

By Pat Brans

Jun 17, 2026 9 mins

C-SuiteCIOCloud Management

Who owns the control plane? Google Cloud Next 2026 and the real contest in agentic AI

The AI race isn’t about models anymore — it’s about who controls the data context. To avoid massive vendor lock-in, you need to own your system's ontology.

By Dion Eusepi

Jun 17, 2026 13 mins

Enterprise ArchitectureGoogle Cloud NextGoogle Cloud Platform

IT hurtles toward the ‘Great Enterprise Pricing Reset’

IT leaders should expect budget volatility and cost prediction uncertainty ahead as SaaS providers seek new pricing models likely to transfer forecasting risk onto buyers.

By Grant Gross

Jun 16, 2026 7 mins

BudgetingSaaSTechnology Industry

AI is the new cloud — and we're repeating the same mistakes

We’re repeating old cloud migration mistakes with AI by obsessing over advanced models while totally ignoring the messy human workflows underneath.

By Jess J. Montgomery

Jun 12, 2026 8 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingDigital Transformation

Why CIOs should reopen the build vs. buy question

For two decades, the prevailing CIO advice has been to buy. But the conditions that made that advice obvious are no longer in place, and the technology leader who never revisits the default accepts a different kind of risk and less visibly every quarter.

By Mihai Strusievici

Jun 12, 2026 9 mins

CIOSoftware ProvidersTechnology Industry

Amazon claims its data centers are 7x more water-efficient than the industry average

New figures position the company ahead of rivals on water consumption as hyperscalers race to prove AI's growing infrastructure footprint is sustainable.

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 11, 2026 7 mins

Amazon Web ServicesIaaSSustainable IT

AWS adds FinOps Agent to bring cloud cost management into engineering workflows

The agent could improve accountability, accelerate remediation, and make cloud financial governance more operational as enterprises grapple with increasingly complex cloud and AI spending, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 9, 2026 6 mins

Cloud ComputingIT LeadershipIT Strategy

The 12 most strategically important IT initiatives today

IT’s top initiatives underscore how CIOs are increasingly shaping and enabling business outcomes — and focusing less on maintaining service levels as their primary objective.

By Mary K. Pratt

Jun 8, 2026 10 mins

Cloud ManagementDigital TransformationIT Strategy

AI is breaking the economic logic of the public cloud

Treating the public cloud as your default setting doesn't work for AI; teams now have to choose infrastructure based on the actual cost of a specific workload.

By Ranko Cosic

Jun 8, 2026 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceBudgetingHybrid Cloud

How digital sovereignty shapes Amnesty International Spain’s tech model

The NGO has spent over 10 years betting on free software, self-hosted systems, and its own infrastructure to strengthen privacy, independence, and control of data.

By Nuria Cordón

Jun 5, 2026 7 mins

Digital TransformationDiversity and InclusionEmployee Experience