Cloud Computing

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, 20269 mins

C-SuiteCIOCloud Management

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

By Dion Eusepi

Jun 17, 202613 mins

Enterprise ArchitectureGoogle Cloud NextGoogle Cloud Platform

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

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 11, 20267 mins

Amazon Web ServicesIaaSSustainable IT

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

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 9, 20266 mins

Cloud ComputingIT LeadershipIT Strategy

The 12 most strategically important IT initiatives today

By Mary K. Pratt

Jun 8, 202610 mins

Cloud ManagementDigital TransformationIT Strategy

AI is breaking the economic logic of the public cloud

By Ranko Cosic

Jun 8, 20267 mins

Artificial IntelligenceBudgetingHybrid Cloud

Articles

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

Your AI cloud strategy isn't about cost. It's about gravity

Treating AI agent deployment as a procurement choice rather than a data physics problem is pure strategic sabotage.

By Pete Johnson

Jun 4, 2026 9 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ManagementIT Strategy

Enterprise Spotlight: Rethinking cloud strategy in the age of AI

Download the June 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World, and learn how to navigate the latest cloud strategy developments.

By CIO staff

Jun 3, 2026 1 min

Cloud ComputingCloud Management

The value of vendor relationships in the AI era

AI tools mean companies can build software themselves, forcing vendors to prove their worth with faster updates and fairer pricing.

By Thomas Madden

Jun 3, 2026 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceSaaSVendor Management

Cloud strategies have become more complicated than ever

AI, data regulations, and complex concerns around costs and workload optimization are just a few of the factors altering CIOs’ approaches to the cloud.

By Esther Shein

Jun 2, 2026 13 mins

Cloud ArchitectureCloud ManagementCloud Security

FTC broadens Microsoft probe to cloud, AI, and software bundling

New reports reveal regulators are examining licensing, interoperability, and product bundling practices that could affect enterprise customers' ability to switch vendors.

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 1, 2026 5 mins

GovernmentLaws and RegulationsMarkets

The neocloud vendor trap: New infrastructure, same old risk

A 4-component risk framework for CIOs who cannot afford to learn this the hard way.

By Steve Oppenheim

Jun 1, 2026 10 mins

Cloud ComputingCloud ManagementVendor Management

The cloud strategy I helped build didn’t survive contact with AI. Here’s what we did next

AI completely derails normal cloud plans by burning through cash on weird compute spikes and turning simple forecasting into total guesswork.

By Maman Ibrahim

Jun 1, 2026 11 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingCloud Management

What goes where: How AI is forcing a new workload placement strategy

Once AI is governed, the next hard question hits: Which workloads belong in the cloud, which stay local and which need a hybrid approach you can actually defend.

By John Doss

Jun 1, 2026 8 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ManagementHybrid Cloud

Cloud spend is now a governance issue. Finance and IT need a new model

Cloud costs are now too wild and engineering-dependent for old-school budgets, so finance and IT need to team up and treat spend as an everyday choice.

By Tracey Shaw

May 29, 2026 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceBudgetingCloud Management

xAI-Anthropic deal signals the rise of AI compute as a standalone business

SpaceX IPO filing reveals rival model makers are buying infrastructure from each other, pointing to a new market for frontier-scale compute.

By Gyana Swain

May 22, 2026 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingData Center

The SaaS reckoning: Why AI is about to reprice enterprise software

The moat that made enterprise platforms defensible for 30 years is draining. Here’s what that means for CIOs, vendors and the next five years of build-versus-buy decisions.

By Praveen Jonnala

May 20, 2026 10 mins

Artificial IntelligenceBudgetingSaaS