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IT leaders are setting their operations strategies for 2026 with an eye toward agility, flexibility, and tangible business results. Download the January 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World and learn about the trends and technologies that will drive the IT agenda in the year ahead.

The second part of Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s “Azure Innovations” Ignite 2025 presentation covered software and a deeper look at the platforms he expects developers will use to build cloud-native applications. Azure was born as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, providing the plumbing for your applications so you didn’t have to think about infrastructure, as it was all automated and hi…

IBM is urging customers to quickly patch a critical vulnerability in its API Connect platform that could allow remote attackers to bypass authentication. The company describes API Connect as a full lifecycle application programming interface (API) gateway used “to create, test, manage, secure, analyze, and socialize APIs.” It particularly touts it as a way to “unlock the potential of agentic AI” …

Cloud computing continues to be the platform of choice for large applications and a driver of innovation in enterprise technology. Gartner forecasts public cloud spending alone to the public cloud services market alone will reach $1.42 trillion in current U.S. dollars, driven by AI workloads and enterprise modernization. Driving this growth are the rise of AI and machine learning on the cloud , a…

If you’ve been watching the JavaScript landscape for a while, you’ve likely noticed the trend toward simplicity in web application development. An aspect of this trend is leveraging HTML, REST, and HATEOAS (hypermedia as the engine of application state) to do as much work as possible. In this article, we’ll look at Hotwire , a collection of tools for building single-page-style applications using …

Nvidia has licensed intellectual property from inferencing chip designer Groq, and hired away some of its senior executives, but stopped short of an outright acquisition. “We’ve taken a non-exclusive license to Groq’s IP and have hired engineering talent from Groq’s team to join us in our mission to provide world-leading accelerated computing technology,” an Nvidia spokesman said Tuesday, via ema…

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has quickly become the enterprise default for grounding generative AI in internal knowledge. It promises less hallucination, more accuracy, and a way to unlock value from decades of documents, policies, tickets, and institutional memory. Yet while nearly every enterprise can build a proof of concept, very few can run RAG reliably in production. This gap has no…

For more than a decade, many considered cloud outages a theoretical risk, something to address on a whiteboard and then quietly deprioritize during cost cuts. In 2025, this risk became real. A major Google Cloud outage in June caused hours-long disruptions to popular consumer and enterprise services, with ripple effects into providers that depend on Google’s infrastructure. Microsoft 365 and Outl…

5 things you need to know about AI-native cloud AI is the core technology: In a traditional cloud, AI is an add-on. In an AI-native cloud, every layer—from storage to networking — is designed to handle the high-throughput, low-latency demands of large models. GPU-first orchestration: AI-native clouds prioritize GPUs and TPUs. This requires advanced orchestration tools like Kubernetes for AI to ma…

The React 19 library for building application interfaces was hit with a remote code vulnerability, React2Shell, about a month ago. However, as researchers delve deeper into the bug, the larger picture gradually unravels. The vulnerability enables unauthenticated remote code execution through React Server Components, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected servers via a crafted re…

It has been a dramatic and challenging year for developers and engineers working in devops organizations. More companies are using AI and automation for both development and IT operations, including for writing requirements , maintaining documentation , and vibe coding . Responsibilities have also increased, as organizations expect devops teams to improve data quality , automate AI agent testing …

Andrej Karpathy is one of the few people in this industry who has earned the right to be listened to without a filter. As a founding member of OpenAI and the former director of AI at Tesla, he sits at the summit of AI and its possibilities. In a recent post , he shared a view that is equally inspiring and terrifying: “I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become…

Document database vendor MongoDB has advised customers to update immediately following the discovery of a flaw that could allow unauthenticated users to read uninitialized heap memory. Designated CVE-2025-14847 , the bug, mismatched length fields in zlib compressed protocol headers, could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code and potentially seize control of a device. The flaw affects the f…

Python 3.14 was the star of the show in 2025, bringing official support for free-threaded builds, a new all-in-one installation manager for Windows, and subtler perks like the new template strings feature. Other great updates this year included a growing toolkit of Rust-backed Python tools, several new options for packaging and distributing Python applications, and a sweet little trove of third-p…

Large language models (LLMs) have grabbed the world’s attention for their seemingly magical ability to instantaneously sift through endless data, generate responses, and even create visual content from simple prompts. But their “small” counterparts aren’t far behind. And as questions swirl about whether AI can actually generate meaningful returns (ROI), organizations should take notice. Because, …