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…
Great data is the real foundation of enterprise AI speed
At the ET Edge CIO&Leader Annual Conference, Rucha Nanavati argued that AI transformation moves only as fast as the data foundation beneath it, and laid out what trustworthy enterprise data…
Air India’s digital overhaul puts the customer back at the centre
At the ET Edge CIO&Leader Annual Conference, Rajesh Dogra shared how modernising over a hundred core systems is laying the foundation for AI to genuinely improve the customer journey. Rajesh…
Agentic AI is here, and India’s data law isn’t ready for it, warns Supreme Court advocate
At the 27th ET Edge CIO&Leader annual conference in Jaipur, Dr Pavan Duggal, Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India and Architect of Global AI Accountability, delivered a sobering…
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…
Starbucks to establish first India GCC in Chennai
Starbucks has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Guidance Tamil Nadu, the state’s nodal investment promotion agency, to establish its first Global Capability Centre (GCC) in India. The centre…
Swiggy cuts data processing time with Snowflake as workloads scale
Swiggy is using Snowflake to bring data from its food delivery, Instamart, and Dineout businesses into a central analytical layer. The company said the setup has improved the performance of…
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…
Everpure Announces New Data Management Capabilities for Production AI at Scale
Everpure the company revolutionizing storage and data management, today announced new platform capabilities designed to simplify enterprise data management, advancing its Data Primacy vision. Introduced at Pure//Accelerate in June, Data…
90% of India’s Executives Fear Data Sovereignty Failures Could Cost Them Their Jobs
Everpure the company revolutionizing storage and data management, today released new global research revealing that 88% of large enterprise C-suite leaders globally, and 90% of those in India, believe a…
OpenMetal Acquires Economize, Launches Labs to Help Businesses Optimize Their Cloud and AI Infrastructure
OpenMetal today announced it has acquired Economize, a cloud cost management platform for engineering, finance, and FinOps teams. Together, the companies give customers one provider for understanding their cloud spend, deciding what should run where, and keeping it optimized. The acquisition also launches OpenMetal Labs, a new offering that builds custom infrastructure and cost solutions for unique business needs. The move addresses something OpenMetal has watched infrastructure-heavy businesses struggle with for years: getting fair unit economics from a vendor that stands behind the infrastructure their business runs on. Many companies run a customized blend of public cloud and private infrastructure, with AI and GPU spend taking a growing share of budgets. Economize shows teams where that money goes. OpenMetal gives them a better place to run workloads when private infrastructure is the right fit. “Companies running infrastructure-heavy businesses have needed a FinOps tool and an infrastructure vendor that understands their cost structure, and rarely got both from the same place,” said Todd Robinson, Co-Founder and President of OpenMetal. “Bringing Economize and OpenMetal together closes that gap because it’s a full suite from one directly accountable provider. And because we’re paying attention to what our customers need day to day, we can keep tailoring our offerings to match, instead of asking them to fit into a fixed product.“ Customers who decide to move workloads to private infrastructure get an easy transition through OpenMetal. Customers who land on a hybrid setup, running some workloads private and some public, get ongoing monitoring and optimization across both environments. OpenMetal and Economize customers can now access both companies’ offerings through a single relationship. “We started Economize with a mission to give teams transparency into their public cloud spend. Together with OpenMetal, we can now help companies act on those insights, building the right mix of public and private cloud for their workloads and balancing cost and performance as they scale,” said Anirudh Murali, Co-Founder and CEO of Economize. Labs is built for the problems standard products don’t solve. The team consults directly with companies on complex infrastructure and cost challenges and builds them custom solutions. Both organizations have done this successfully on their own for years. One hosting provider needed a Ceph storage cluster tuned for a workload most standard configurations couldn’t handle, and OpenMetal’s team built it alongside them. On the FinOps side, an engineering team needed cost management beyond what Economize’s standard platform offered, so Economize built advanced custom reporting and alerts to fit how that team tracked spend. Labs brings that combined expertise, spanning everything from large-scale OpenStack and Ceph engineering to real-time cloud cost anomaly detection, under one roof. Highlights:
High School Tech Whiz Builds Digital Tool to Protect Against Online Financial Scams
Deeksha Karthik, a 12th-grade student at Oberoi International School, has spent the past two years working on projects about online financial fraud in India. She began her journey with awareness…
Deloitte India and Avolution announce strategic alliance to advance enterprise architecture and AI governance
Deloitte India and Avolution have announced a strategic alliance to help organisations strengthen enterprise architecture capabilities and make more informed technology and transformation decisions through Avolution’s ABACUS platform. Under the…
Dun & Bradstreet Accelerates Credit Analysis by up to 30-40% with New AI-Powered Capabilities
Dun & Bradstreet today announced the launch of new AI-powered capabilities to help finance teams make faster credit decisions, surface portfolio risks earlier, and optimize growth opportunities. Now available within…
TrendAI™ Extends the NVIDIA Agent Safety Platform with Threat Intelligence and Full AI Factory Security
TrendAI™, the global leader in AI security and business unit from Trend Micro Incorporated, today announced its support for the NVIDIA Agent Safety Platform, NVIDIA’s full-stack infrastructure for running autonomous…
IWG’s Rise of the Z-Suite: AI is accelerating the next generation of business leaders
AI is accelerating the rise of a new generation of Gen Z business leaders, changing how organisations identify, develop and promote future leadership according to new research from International Workplace…
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…
Intel is putting CPU back at the centre of the AI stack
Intel used its Computex 2026 keynote in Taipei to make a case that the shift from AI model training to AI inference, and the rise of agentic workloads is putting…
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…