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

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Shifts in compute infrastructure, ongoing AI adoption plans and talent challenges ruled CIO priorities in the first half of the year.

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Global IT spend to exceed $6 trillion in 2026

Technology spending will grow nearly 10% next year, bolstered by demand in generative services, according to Gartner.

By Roberto Torres • Oct. 22, 2025

A look at Target’s approach to generative AI

Chief Information and Product Officer Prat Vemana described the retailer's technology strategy while it undergoes a turnaround.

By Dani James • Oct. 22, 2025

Tech vendors switch up pricing models to offset rising cloud costs

Significant delivery costs for AI products and soaring cloud spend is driving providers to reassess pricing structures, according to a Revenera report.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 17, 2025

Whataburger taps tech chief to guide infrastructure rollout

Rohit Kapoor, formerly EVP and CIO at Claire's, will be tasked with leading an expansion of the company's digital infrastructure in support of its growth plans.

By Roberto Torres • Oct. 16, 2025

CIOs will gravitate toward purpose-built infrastructure in 2026

Companies are preparing to align their systems with growing AI use as executives seek lower cloud costs, according to Info-Tech Research Group.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 10, 2025

AWS launches Quick Suite in latest hyperscaler agentic push

The platform combines research, business intelligence and automation capabilities into one hub, the company said Thursday.

By Roberto Torres • Oct. 9, 2025

Cloud marketplace sales set to skyrocket by 2030

Multiyear enterprise cloud commitments will lead software sales to increase more than fivefold in the next five years, according to Omdia.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 7, 2025

Hiring managers say they will pay for in-demand skills

Machine learning, AI and data science are among the areas garnering salary premiums, according to a Robert Half report.

By Ginger Christ • Oct. 3, 2025

Generative AI drives cloud spend blitz

Public cloud spend will increase fourfold over the next three years, largely driven by growing generative AI workloads, according to TD Cowen.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 3, 2025

SaaS spend jumps amid shifts in the vendor landscape

Consumption-based pricing has left many companies struggling to track spending, leading to a proliferation of underutilized “shelfware,” according to BCG.

By Matt Ashare • Oct. 2, 2025

Top CIO conferences to attend in 2026

The roster of tech conferences will give IT leaders a chance to gauge the latest trends, honing their strategies in response to fast-paced change. 

By Roberto Torres , Lindsey Wilkinson , Matt Ashare , Makenzie Holland • Updated Jan. 30, 2026

VMware customers face crossroads as Broadcom ends vSphere 7 support

“If you don't upgrade or renew, whatever the case might be, you will not get support from Broadcom,” said Spinnaker Support CTO Iain Saunderson.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 29, 2025

Legacy tech woes fuel IT upgrades as CIOs grapple with costs

Maintaining old systems slows down modernization efforts as enterprises rush to adopt agentic and generative AI.

By Makenzie Holland • Sept. 26, 2025

SAP’s ERP support services raise antitrust concerns in EU

SAP isn’t the first tech company scrutinized for its business practices. It could eventually be forced to make concessions to avoid hefty fines.

By Makenzie Holland • Sept. 25, 2025

Generative AI will affect tech jobs more than other sectors

More than half of skills related to tech jobs will face greater transformation as generative AI comes into the fold, according to an Indeed report.

By Roberto Torres • Sept. 23, 2025

Citi deploys agentic tools to in-house AI platform

The financial services firm began initial rollout of agentic capabilities to 5,000 of its workers this month, according to a Monday announcement.

By Roberto Torres • Sept. 22, 2025

Enterprise software spend accelerates amid AI adoption blitz

As the technology ripples through IT budgets, it’s driving up costs across infrastructure, data management and applications, according to West Monroe.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 22, 2025

Global AI spending to approach $1.5 trillion this year: Gartner

Hyperscaler investments in GPUs and accelerators will nearly double the size of the AI server market, the analyst firm said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 17, 2025

How CIOs can attract top AI talent without spending billions

Athough big tech players are luring AI pros with large compensation packages, most companies are better equipped to attract top talent than they realize.

By Kjell Carlsson • Sept. 10, 2025

HP sees earlier than expected spike in AI PC shipments

“We see CIOs making that decision to refresh their installed base with AI PCs because they don't want to be outdated in a year or two,” CFO Karen Parkhill said Monday.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 9, 2025

Salesforce still sees a place for live customer service agents after massive cuts

The company slashed about 4,000 customer service agents as its use of AI picked up, but CEO Marc Benioff still expects people and AI to work together.

By Bryan Wassel • Sept. 9, 2025

Broadcom enters ‘second phase’ of VMware consolidation

The company converted its largest customers to subscription software bundles. Now it wants to help them find value in private cloud.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 5, 2025

Salesforce banks on AI deals as customers move past pilot stage

The vendor doubled the number of paying customers for its agentic AI platform in six months, executives said during a Wednesday earnings call. 

By Roberto Torres • Sept. 4, 2025