India’s sovereign cloud debate is shifting from location to control
For years, the cloud sovereignty conversation has centred on one question: where is the data stored? A new Deloitte report, “Sovereign cloud for India: Building trusted digital infrastructure for the…
India leads in sovereign procurement intent, but has no plan to back it up
Everpure’s Global Data Sovereignty Report 2026, based on 2,100 enterprise organisations across eight markets, reveals a defining disconnect between strategic priority and operational readiness. “We talk about data sovereignty a…
AI agents touched sensitive data in 87% of firms, while only 19% caught it in real time
Enterprise AI adoption has moved faster than the governance designed to contain it. That much is understood. What Delinea’s 2026 Identity Security Report makes uncomfortably concrete is how wide that…
AI is forcing SRE and platform teams to grow up fast, new report finds
A new global survey suggests artificial intelligence is pushing the engineers who keep systems running to rewrite their playbooks as it moves from pilot projects into everyday business operations. Dynatrace’s…
The security gaps CIOs keep leaving open
Enterprise security conversations in 2026 tend to gravitate towards nation-state actors, zero-day exploits, and AI-powered attack chains. While the reality of how most web applications get compromised is far less…
Harness acquires Augment Code assets to connect AI coding with software delivery
Harness has acquired select assets from Augment Code to expand automation across the software development life cycle (SDLC). The acquisition includes Cosmos, the Auggie CLI products, the Code Context Engine,…
Airtel Business brings SMS, WhatsApp, RCS and voice under one enterprise messaging platform
Airtel Business has launched Airtel IQ Gateway, a platform aimed at helping enterprises manage customer communications across SMS, WhatsApp, Rich Communication Services (RCS), business voice, and number verification from one…
IBM-Yotta platform brings sovereign control to enterprise agentic AI in India
As Indian enterprises move from AI pilots towards production-scale deployments, the question of where data is stored is increasingly being joined by questions around where AI inference runs, who controls…
CtrlS expands metro optical networks for hyperscaler connectivity
CtrlS Datacenters is working with Ciena to upgrade its metro optical network infrastructure across Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, New Delhi, and Noida. The project covers five metro networks connecting nine data…
Datadog brings AI into user journey monitoring and testing
Datadog has introduced two new capabilities, Journey Monitoring and Bits Testing, aimed at helping organisations track and test critical user journeys as applications change. The features are part of the…
What Happens When Security Leads Transformation? NEC Shares Insights
As organizations race to digitize, the convergence of technology leadership and cybersecurity has become more than strategic- it’s essential. In this exclusive conversation with CIO&Leader, Ashish Gupta, CIO and CISO…
CloudKeeper Makes AI/LLM Cost Tracking Easier for Businesses with Full Stack FinOps for AI
CloudKeeper, an AI and cloud cost optimization partner, today announced the launch of Full Stack FinOps for AI, a platform designed to help businesses track AI-related expenditure across models, applications,…
Qlik Brings Governed Business Context and Analytics Workflows to Claude
Qlik® today announced the availability of its Model Context Protocol server through Anthropic’ s Claude Directory, giving Claude users a simpler way to connect governed Qlik data, analytical logic, and…
Oracle Announces $1 Billion Investment to Accelerate Partner Growth and AI-Driven Modernization for Customers
Oracle today announced a $1 billion commitment to its partner ecosystem to help partners capitalize on customer demand for AI-powered solutions and services. Spanning the next four years, the investment…
The Chatterjee Group’s Cortex DC Advances Plans to Develop 2 GW of AI-Ready Data Centre Capacity Across India
Cortex DC, the AI-first subsidiary of The Chatterjee Group a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate, is foraying into the data centre space after careful preparation. Built to serve hyperscalers, cloud service providers and…
Zoom Advances its AI Strategy with a New Unified Context Layer that Helps Turn Meeting Conversations into Completed Work
At its annual Zoomtopia customer conference, Zoom Communications, Inc. a leading AI-first platform for human connection, introduced a new Unified Context Layer and several new products with AI-powered capabilities. The…
Nutanix expands AI partnerships to speed up production deployments and control costs
Nutanix has announced collaborations with NVIDIA, Supermicro, and Netris to help enterprises and service providers deploy and scale production artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The initiatives focus on reducing infrastructure deployment…
Matters.AI secures 100 petabytes of Groww’s cloud data with autonomous AI
Matters.AI, an India-built data security company, has announced that its AI Security Engineer platform is securing more than 100 petabytes of distributed cloud data at Groww, an Indian investment platform.…
Delinea launches MCP server to simplify access governance and audit readiness
Delinea has introduced Fastpath MCP Server, a capability that connects access governance data with artificial intelligence (AI) assistants. It allows finance, information technology (IT), audit, and compliance teams to query…
Agentic AI’s hardest part is the last mile, not the demo
SAS’s Jared Peterson says enterprise AI’s real challenge is production: integration, human oversight, quality data and open architecture, with Pune owning core Viya R&D. Two years ago, enterprise AI meant…
From Sports Physics to Smart Irrigation: How a Student Is Taking STEM Beyond the Classroom
Jain initially began working directly with students through More Than Play, tutoring 150 children in science and mathematics. For Aarav A. Jain, STEM education is not simply about learning how…
A Better Model Doesn’t Fix a Broken Operating Model
Enterprises have no shortage of AI pilots; what they lack, argues Niraj Nagrani, Chief Data and AI Officer at Altimetrik, is an operating system to run them on. In this…
Oracle’s AI agents can now execute enterprise work — here’s what CIOs should know
Oracle has launched a builder experience that lets enterprises run AI agent teams directly inside Fusion Cloud Applications, without a separate runtime or external orchestration layer. The company calls the…
COMPUTEX 2026: From Personal Devices to AI Infrastructure
For years, COMPUTEX Taipei was an exhibition where tech enthusiasts came to see flashy gaming rigs, watch overclocking contests, and explore the latest laptops and PC hardware. It was, above…
India’s AI Inflection Point: How National Technology Day 2026 Signals A New Era Of Responsible Innovation
From drug discovery to cybersecurity, India’s technology leaders are charting a path where AI is not just powerful—but purposeful. Every year on May 11, India pauses to mark National Technology…
Ten Years Strong: Vertex Group Appoints Tanya Singh as Global Vice President, Marketing & Communications to Power Its Next Decade
Vertex Group, the Times Square-headquartered multinational tech giant, today announced the appointment of Tanya Singh as Vice President, Marketing & Communications, as it completes 10 years of operations and targets…