A former enterprise IT vendor insider critiques the software upgrade treadmill and vendor lock-in, drawing on personal career history, analysis of IBM's earnings and IT budget sequencing, and anecdotes about forced technology upgrades. Readers get pointed industry commentary on how vendors and enterprise procurement shape technology spending.
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Technical articles on designing recovery for enterprise workloads, focusing on the gap between what backup products protect and what it takes to restore a whole service. Recent issues cover Veeam agents for AIX and Solaris, Microsoft 365 recovery prioritization with Rubrik, and cloud application recovery beyond backup status.
A weekly briefing that picks five signals from AI labs, vendors, regulators and markets and interprets what they mean for organizations deploying AI. It focuses on agent permissions, governance, accountability and ROI, with a recurring angle for IBM i shops.
A weekly newsletter from a CIO's perspective on how organizations should lead and govern AI adoption, including AI agents as team members, shadow AI, and AI operating models. Readers get opinionated analysis backed by survey data and practical role and governance suggestions.
Felipe Lucena writes practical articles for Jira and Jira Service Management admins and enterprise IT teams, covering access request architecture, comparisons of JMWE and ScriptRunner, and pitfalls of Jira Cloud migrations. Readers get concrete operational guidance drawn from hands-on enterprise experience.
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