Microsoft reports $49B in cloud revenue despite capacity woes

In the midst of an outage, Microsoft’s CFO reported that its Azure revenue growth was hampered by a capacity shortage that will continue throughout its fiscal 2026.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Oct. 30, 2025

AWS Transform aims AI agents at legacy workloads

The platform seeks to help businesses upgrade mainframe, .NET and VMware workloads, in line with a vendor push toward agent-driven modernization. 

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 30, 2025

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CIOs must help their businesses address maintenance needs while keeping an eye on future innovation.

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How corporate changes at OpenAI will affect CIOs

The ChatGPT-maker is restructuring to command a for-profit business in addition to its nonprofit foundation amid changes to its partnership with Microsoft.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Updated Oct. 29, 2025

AI governance lags as adoption speeds ahead

Fewer than half of technology decision-makers have formalized governance policies in place, according to a Collibra survey. 

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Oct. 29, 2025

Rethinking data warehouses: Why they’re inefficient and how we can fix them

With Espresso AI, Databricks SQL users can cut their costs in half.

By Ben Lerner, CEO of Espresso AI • Oct. 29, 2025

Marzetti pursues AI gains in post-ERP overhaul era

CIO Liam Durbin is preparing to roll out ChatGPT after strengthening the food company’s IT foundation, governance and data processes. 

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Oct. 29, 2025

4 tips for evaluating cloud AI providers

Leaning into vendor relationships and considering the AI environments best tied to business goals can help shape an effective cloud AI strategy, according to Gartner.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 28, 2025

2026 budget planning strategies for CIOs

Executives can polish up their spending plans for next year by recalibrating AI strategies, cutting waste and bolstering security spending.

By Jen A. Miller • Oct. 28, 2025

Australian regulators sue Microsoft over ‘misleading’ pricing structure

The consumer watchdog said the vendor failed to disclose the existence of a cheaper Microsoft 365 plan sans Copilot, the latest query into the company’s bundling practices.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 27, 2025

10 metrics to track enterprise AI success

CIOs must help businesses weed out the AI duds as use cases advance beyond pilot projects. Here’s what IT leaders are watching.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Oct. 27, 2025

4 practical ways CIOs can close the AI governance gap

How can CIOs improve AI governance? Here are four practical strategies to use today.

By Brad Rumph, Field CTO at Tines • Oct. 27, 2025

UBS revamps leadership with tech, AI in mind

The Swiss bank appointed its first chief AI officer, the latest financial services company to create an executive role dedicated to AI adoption.

By Nicole Laskowski • Oct. 24, 2025

Wyndham puts 250 AI agents into production

The hotelier’s agentic suite is providing support for guests, such as modifying bookings and offering travel recommendations.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Oct. 24, 2025

Financial services tech leaders tackle agentic AI governance

Operating in a risk-averse industry, IT decision-makers are helping their businesses adapt to emerging threats without derailing momentum.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Oct. 24, 2025

SAP focuses on cloud gains, touts agentic AI plan

Executives pointed to the company’s cloud revenue as an indicator of future growth as customers adopt products across the SAP Business Suite.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 23, 2025

Infrastructure, software drive IBM Q3 growth

The company saw revenues rise 9% year over year, marking its biggest quarterly increase in the last three years.

By Roberto Torres • Oct. 23, 2025

How CIOs can navigate the conversational AI maze

The provider landscape is getting crowded, but CIOs can follow a seven-step process to shape adoption for their organizations.

By Bern Elliot • Oct. 23, 2025

5 Gartner predictions about IT’s future

As CIOs head into 2026, they’ll have to figure out where AI is useful and where overreliance creates a decline in skills critical to the business.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 21, 2025

Vendors don’t have answers to the ROI for AI question

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff underscored how agentic AI is changing vendor-enterprise relationships during Gartner’s conference Tuesday. 

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Oct. 21, 2025

AI shapes cloud spend amid adoption efforts

AI adoption is increasing enterprise cloud spending, pushing CIOs to balance cost management with multicloud strategies and energy-intensive infrastructure.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 21, 2025

Climbing costs, skills loss and other AI warnings for CIOs

Amid seismic change for IT leaders, enterprises need to curate survival kits to mitigate reliability and cost challenges, Gartner analysts said. 

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Oct. 20, 2025

Many IT leaders click phishing links — and some don’t report them

Fear of punishment or termination could be driving executive reticence to disclose the incidents, according to an Arctic Wolf report. 

By Eric Geller • Oct. 20, 2025

Enhancing developer productivity with next-gen test orchestration

Next-gen AI-powered test orchestration boosts developer productivity through smarter, faster testing.

Oct. 20, 2025

Chase enlists generative AI to drive modernization

While initially skeptical of the technology, the bank deployed guardrails and governance to allay accuracy concerns.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Oct. 17, 2025

Windows 10 end-of-support boosts global PC shipment growth

Despite the global rush to upgrade PCs before Windows 10 support ended, North America saw only modest growth, according to Gartner.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 17, 2025