Why the CFO's Playbook Belongs on Every CIO's Desk

Jennifer Lawinski • February 20, 2026

What does your CFO think about the piles of money being poured into AI projects? Gartner research on how CFOs are allocating budgets gives CIOs insight into priorities, and where technology and AI can help move the needle.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

India's DPDP Act Exposes the Hidden Cost of Data Hoarding

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CXO / IT Leadership

Resilience: How CISOs Can Rewire Governance in the AI Era

Sandhya Michu • February 17, 2026

Grant Sewell, chief security officer at IT consulting and managed services provider Ahead, shares how continuous artificial intelligence policy iteration, evidence-driven board reporting and live simulations redefine modern cybersecurity leadership.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Why Borderless AI Is Coming to an End

Yamini Kalra • February 15, 2026

By 2027, more than one-third of the world's nations will be locked into region-specific AI platforms built on proprietary data, infrastructure and governance frameworks, according to Gartner. Nations are now safeguarding LLMs in the same way they do critical infrastructure.

Next Gen Tech

India's E-Rupee Leads the Secure Adoption of CBDCs

Brian Pereira • February 13, 2026

CBDCs are expanding, with 90% of central banks exploring them. India's e-rupee pilot shows strong adoption, backed by RBI standards and HSM-secure transactions. Ruchin Kumar, VP for South Asia at Futurex, underscores awareness, interoperability and encryption as keys to CBDC success and PQC readiness.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

How ISO 42001 Is Embedding Oversight Across AI Life Cycle

Sandhya Michu • February 12, 2026

With AI now driving credit, fraud and risk decisions at scale, Perfios CISO and DPO Mohit Srivastava shares how ISO 42001 helps reduce bias, improve audit trails and defend AI decisions in regulated environments.

Why AI Governance Risk Is Really a Data Governance Problem

Yamini Kalra • February 11, 2026

Unstructured data now fuels enterprise AI ecosystems, but many organizations still lack clarity on who owns it or who should access it. As AI usage scales up, weak controls and data sprawl are heightening the risks of regulatory violations, unauthorized access and unreliable outcomes from AI models.

Closing the AI Gap From Pilot to Production

Rahul Neel Mani • February 11, 2026

AI pilots are always created in a black-box kind of environment. The data is curated, the scenarios are well defined and everything runs under controlled paths. But when organizations move to production-grade distributed systems, the reality changes, says senior tech leader Rakesh Khanduja.

Business Transformation

AI at Scale Demands a New Digital Foundation

Brian Pereira • February 9, 2026

Tata Communications has launched an AI‑ready platform for distributed and edge workloads. The suite is built on its Digital Fabric to unify connectivity, edge intelligence and security. It's designed to help enterprises scale AI, simplify operations and improve visibility with greater control.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

AI Moves Into Core Lending, Compliance and Enterprise Ops

Sandhya Michu • February 6, 2026

Consumer lender Poonawalla Fincorp has rolled out five new artificial intelligence-powered enterprise tools, expanding its use of AI across pricing, customer onboarding, data quality, customer feedback and application development.

Why Telemetry Is the Backbone of Production AI

Yamini Kalra • February 5, 2026

As enterprises move from artificial intelligence pilots to production, observability, cost control and trust are emerging as critical success factors. Yrieix Garnier, vice president of products at Datadog, shares what separates scalable AI from systems that quietly fail.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

SolarWinds CTO Breaks Down Its Secure AI Agent Design

Yamini Kalra • February 4, 2026

Agentic artificial intelligence is redefining the operational contract between humans and software. Krishna Sai, CTO of SolarWinds, unpacks the technical architecture behind the company's approach to agentic AI and why fully autonomous remediation is a deliberate line not yet crossed.

Standards, Frameworks, Governance

What It Takes to Build Scalable, Trusted Digital Platforms

Sandhya Michu • February 3, 2026

As governments scale digital platforms across states, technology success depends less on speed of deployment and more on trust, adaptability and long-term resilience, says Neeta Verma, former director general of the National Informatics Centre, and former chief advisor for IT to the EIC.

Cloud Computing

Logistics Giant Allcargo Moves ERP to AWS Cloud

Yamini Kalra • February 2, 2026

Allcargo Logistics is shifting its global ERP system to AWS and redesigning it as a SaaS platform. Global Chief Information and Technology Officer Kapil Mahajan shares how this move enables AI-native workflows, preserves global uptime and positions the company to shape logistics technology standards.