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Agentic AI continues to accelerate the evolution of customer relationship management (CRM) into a more decisive, action-oriented solution, with subsequent workforce, budgeting, and business process impacts CIOs must account for.

By Neal Weinberg

23 Jul 2026 9 mins

CRM SystemsIT StrategyTechnology Industry

Principles every enterprise must test before the attack arrives

True cyber resilience requires independent backups, board-aligned recovery plans and stress-testing for total, destructive blackout scenarios.

By Tony Colon

23 Jul 2026 7 mins

Business ContinuityData and Information SecuritySecurity

CyCognito Brings Always-On AI Pentesting to External Attack Surface Management

By CyberNews Wire

23 Jul 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCyberattacksCybercrime

Smaller, smarter, safer: How to build agentic AI on the right foundation

At the CIO 100 Leadership Live New York event last week, Zoho’s head of sales and account management walked through lessons the software provider has learned about deploying effective agentic AI.

By Thor Olavsrud

23 Jul 2026 8 mins

CIO 100CIO Leadership LiveDigital Transformation

AI success requires a full-stack CIO

Today’s IT leaders must be masters of everything from the boardroom to the command line to help reinvent their organizations with AI. Former Colonial Pipeline CIO Afshean Talasaz knows how.

By Dan Roberts

23 Jul 2026 10 mins

CIODigital TransformationIT Strategy

Sovereign AI has become the public-sector CIO's control problem

As governments embed AI into services, sovereignty shifts from training native models to public CIO control over data, vendor dependency, audits and continuity.

By Collin Hogue-Spears

23 Jul 2026 8 mins

GovernmentGovernment ITMarkets

Monday.com cuts 20% of its workforce to restructure for the AI era

The company says the move isn't about margins, but about creating a flatter organization built around AI agents, autonomous teams, and deeper customer engagement.

By Taryn Plumb

23 Jul 2026 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceSoftware ProvidersTechnology Industry

Oracle’s July update fixes ten 10.0 vulnerabilities in Fusion Middleware

The record number of fixes in this quarter’s Critical Patch Update cover 32 product families.

By Gyana Swain

23 Jul 2026 6 mins

DatabasesOracle DatabaseRelational Databases

Oracle expands Cloud@Customer with new database service for mid-sized workloads

Base Database Cloud@Customer could help regulated enterprises modernize databases and deploy AI closer to sensitive data, although its appeal is likely to remain strongest among existing Oracle customers, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

23 Jul 2026 5 mins

Cloud ComputingDatabasesHybrid Cloud

The $3 trillion assembly line: Why CIOs must industrialize the data center supply chain

Building data centers isn't civil engineering anymore; it’s high-stakes product assembly where a disconnected software tool can create a $500M blind spot.

By Joydeb Mandal and Sourav Mallick

23 Jul 2026 7 mins

Data Center DesignMarketsTransportation and Logistics Industry

How a contextual AI fabric turns organizational memory into AI advantage

AI models already know everything about your industry, but they don't know your company's actual history, reasoning and logic until you build a context layer.

By Jaideep Dhok

22 Jul 2026 8 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData QualityDigital Transformation

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