Despite the hype around generative AI, studies continue to suggest the majority of large organizations are struggling to find ROI and project success. The question is why. Two recent studies from IBM and AWS suggest there are a number of problems. While these studies highlight a range of challenges, in
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Palo Alto Networks, launched in 2005, went public in 2012 and today is a $124 billion company. Yet in spite of being a mature organization, it tries to organize itself in small groups, mini startups in a sense, an approach designed to operate with more agility and flexibility. Over time,
I spent the first part of the week at the RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco, and after talking to a bunch of smart people and watching a slew of panels featuring CISOs from some major enterprise organizations, I’ve concluded that AI security is very much a work in
While artificial intelligence is deep in the hype cycle, enterprise security leaders recognize it’s rapidly becoming an operational reality inside their organizations, and they have to deal with it. That was the message at a CISO panel sponsored by boldstart, ivp and Acrew Capital this week in San Francisco
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In a prescient presentation in July 2017, Peter Levine, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz predicted a future where, out of necessity, computing would shift from the cloud to the edge, closer to where the workloads lived. You have to remember that in 2017, cloud computing was really just beginning
Figma made headlines in September 2022 when Adobe came a callin’ with a $20 billion offer they couldn’t refuse. It was a huge amount of money and many suspected that Adobe was simply using its market clout to take a rival off the board. Regulators seemed to agree, and
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With more than 300,000 employees and $4.4 trillion in assets under management, JPMorgan Chase operates on a scale few banks can match. Backed by a $17 billion technology budget, its tech group—comprised of over 60,000 professionals, including 44,000 developers—manages 6,000 applications and nearly
When you have been around enterprise computing long enough, you start to see history constantly repeating itself. With each new technological wave, it feels like we are being told that the old rules don’t apply this time. AI agents are the latest hot trend, but guess what: fundamentals always
While I couldn't attend Google Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas in person, I closely tracked the announcements and spoke with several seasoned analysts to get their take on what stood out. From new chips to security moves, here's what they thought were the biggest headlines.
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When Akamai CIO Kate Prouty decided it was time to get her cloud infrastructure bills under control, she knew it would be a tough sell, especially for the engineers. The last thing engineers want to do is look under the hood to find savings. That’s her job. They just
Per usual, there was a lot to write about this week, and frankly I was torn between the memo from Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke requiring employees to use AI, and Google’s announcement of the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol at Google Cloud Next, but in spite of the attention the the
A few weeks after buying Moveworks for almost $3 billion, ServiceNow acquired Logik.ai, a configure, price, quote (CPQ) startup for an undisclosed price. These acquisitions illustrate ServiceNow's growing ambition to compete in the CRM market. If you had asked me prior to the Moveworks deal if I