How CxOs are thinking about IT budgets, AI in 2026
CxOs are cautiously optimistic about their AI and automation efforts, but do need to move beyond proofs of concepts into production.
Five years ago, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) were on top of the world. These executives played mission-critical roles in driving multi-million dollar projects that delivered massive change. However, a global recession and the inability of CIOs to deliver on business value have tarnished their status. Today's CIOs are under pressure to deliver on requests for innovation, cost reduction, connectivity, and a growing demand for business intelligence. Just as previous technology and business shifts have changed the role of the CIO, the new, more consumer-oriented business models of the social revolution will favor a new breed of business and technology leader. These leaders will have to navigate myriad converging and disruptive technologies, align new initiatives to both business value and technology feasibility, and identify strategies to leverage existing investments to fund innovation. Constellation's research and advisory offerings arm the CIO w/ the knowledge, best practices, and strategies required to manage the four personas of the next generation CIO.
CxOs are cautiously optimistic about their AI and automation efforts, but do need to move beyond proofs of concepts into production.
SavATree, a landscape services company that operates across 40 US states, generated $1.5 million in returns by better engaging and training its frontline workers. Here's a look at the takeaways from Sarah Cusack, director of learning and development at SavATree.
Workday is rounding out its AI strategy, building out its platform with multiple tuck-in acquisitions and looking to become an AI agent player because it can leverage its unified HR and finance data.
Dell Technologies saw record AI server orders in the third quarter and raised its fiscal 2026 AI shipment guidance to $25 billion, up 150% from a year ago.
An IBM executive said the company's steady and practical approach to quantum computing will win out over the bluster that's emerging from multiple vendors.
Alibaba's cloud revenue in the second quarter surged 34% driven by AI workloads. Alibaba's cloud revenue is on an annual revenue run rate is more than $22 billion.
Zoom reported better-than-expected third quarter results as the company gained wallet share and grew the number of customers contributing more than $100,000 in trailing 12 month revenue.
Amazon said it will invest $50 billion to build and deploy AI and high performance computing infrastructure built for the US government.
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Under a multi-million dollar contract with NATO's Communication and Information Agency (NCIA), Google will deliver sovereign cloud services to NATO for edge computing and AI use cases.
Large language models are at an interesting juncture. LLM breakthroughs have slowed and there are questions about whether they will lead to artificial general intelligence. Coupled with concerns about an AI infrastructure bubble LLMs are going to be closely watched--especially since they're the key ingredient of agentic AI.
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