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Microsoft Ignite 2025: Much Rests Beneath the Surface

G. Willsky

Summary Bullets:

• Microsoft Teams is front and center at Microsoft despite a very limited number of related announcements made at the event.

• Pairing team collaboration and productivity tools provides Microsoft a distinct competitive position.

Microsoft has officially closed the doors on its annual ‘Ignite’ event, a showcase of enhancements across the entire Microsoft portfolio. Only a handful of Microsoft Teams-related announcements were made, giving the impression that Microsoft Teams has taken a back seat to other Microsoft initiatives. In reality, much the opposite is true. The features unveiled were merely the tip of the iceberg, a small subset of a lengthy and diverse list of improvements that appeared in a Microsoft Teams blog.

While the actual depth of Microsoft Teams introductions might have come as a surprise, what shouldn’t be a surprise is that the introductions were infused with AI. Some examples bear this out.

The user interface for Microsoft Copilot in Teams AI-powered assistant is being unified across chats, channels, and meetings. Deploying a unified front across different functions is reminiscent of the familiar menu structure that cuts across Microsoft’s productivity apps such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The power of this approach allows users to quickly learn a new app based upon their experience with an app they are already familiar with. It’s interesting to note that Microsoft is taking knowledge gained during its ‘Microsoft Office’ era and applying it to ‘modern’ times in the form of the AI-infused Microsoft Copilot. On top of the updated interface, Microsoft Copilot in Teams can now also analyze chat history, meeting transcripts, and calendar content and generate recaps, rewrite messages, and surface insights; this experience is generally available for chat and channels and is rolling out to public preview for meetings.

Providing the ability to collaborate with external users is a growing trend. Microsoft has launched a public preview of several features that enhance interaction between Microsoft Teams users and vendors, clients, partners, and the like. Among other features, Microsoft Teams users can launch a chat, share a file in a chat, and view and respond to Microsoft Teams activity in other accounts and organizations.

A persistent collaborative space is now available from within Microsoft Teams chat and channels, helping organize information and co-create content. The space comes in the form of two features, ‘Pages’ in channels and ‘Notes’ in chat. Taken together, the features mimic the Zoom Docs capability from Zoom. So, although Microsoft is not scoring points for originality, it is introducing some very valuable functionality.

One especially intriguing aspect of Microsoft Ignite 2025 lies beyond the inventory of enhancements revealed, exposing something fundamental to Microsoft. Microsoft is taking a holistic approach to providing team collaboration capabilities. That approach spans Microsoft Teams software, device hardware such as video bars, and security, for instance, blocking files that pose a security risk such as executables before they reach a chat or channel. Normally such an ‘all points covered’ approach would provide Microsoft a unique competitive position, however it does not. Cisco mirrors Microsoft in employing deep lineups of software capabilities, devices, and security. Both companies are setting a tone that others will need to follow to compete in the space; rivals certainly have their work cut out for them.

Collectively, all the new features further cement Microsoft’s position as a leading vendor in the team collaboration/hybrid work arena. With AI touching multiple points of its portfolio including the latest Microsoft Ignite announcements, Microsoft has taken the ‘permeate the platform’ approach to AI adopted by competitors such as Cisco, Google, Zoom, and RingCentral. Coupled with its portfolio of ‘Office’ productivity tools, Microsoft has achieved a degree of differentiation that is largely unmatched.

The new economics of cybersecurity: Calculating ROI in an AI-driven world

The language of value in the modern enterprise has fundamentally changed. In boardrooms around the world, the conversation is dominated by new vocabulary: “AI-driven growth,” “speed to market,” “product innovation,” and the relentless pursuit of the “competitive advantage.” Yet, for many security leaders, the language they use to define their own value remains stuck in the past. It’s a dialect of blocked threats and patched vulnerabilities that feels increasingly disconnected from the core mission of the business.

This failure unequivocally stems from the models we use, rather than from a lack of intent. For decades, the return on a security investment was measured with the simple, defensive math of a cost center. This old model fails to capture the immense and often hidden value that a modern security posture contributes to the business. Now, we have a new economy — one where artificial intelligence (“AI”) is the primary engine of innovation and the cloud is the factory floor.

It’s time to reassess the calculus and explore a new economic framework, one that redefines security’s worth not by the incidents it prevents but by the business momentum it creates.

Calculating the true cost of disruption

For years, the quantifiable risk of a breach was a straightforward calculation of regulatory fines, customer notification costs, and credit monitoring services. These are still real costs, but they represent a fraction of the true financial impact in an AI-driven enterprise. The most significant danger isn’t isolated to loss of data. It’s the disruption of the intelligent systems that now form the central nervous system of the business.

Consider a global logistics company whose entire supply chain is orchestrated by an AI platform. A breach-like model poisoning compromises this system and acts as a catastrophic failure of the business itself. The true cost is the value of every delayed shipment, every broken supplier commitment, and the permanent loss of customer trust.

In this new reality, the most important metric becomes the cost of disruption avoidance. A modern, AI-powered security platform that can autonomously detect and neutralize a threat before it halts operations is both a defensive tool and a direct guarantor of revenue and business continuity.

Security as an accelerator — and an innovator

The second and, perhaps, most powerful shift in this new economic model is the reframing of security from a necessary defensive brake to a strategic accelerator. In the past, security was often seen as a gate, a checkpoint that slowed down development in the name of safety. Today, the opposite is true: A mature, unified security platform is one of the most effective tools for increasing the velocity of innovation.

Consider a financial services firm that’s racing to deploy a dozen new AI-powered financial models in a single year. In a traditional, fragmented security environment, each new model might require a six-week, manual security review — a process that would kill any hope of meeting their business goals. A modern, automated security platform that is woven into the development lifecycle can reduce that review process to a matter of days or even hours. It allows developers to innovate with confidence, knowing that security is an enabling partner, clearing the path for progress. This is a direct, quantifiable contribution to the company’s ability to compete and win.

Paying down the past: The value of a clean slate

Many organizations are silently being dragged down by a hidden liability: decades of accumulated “security debt.” This immense, unspoken risk is created by a patchwork of disconnected point products, inconsistent policies across different cloud environments, and the constant operational tax of managing dozens of disparate tools. It increases the attack surface and slows down the entire organization.

Moving to a single, unified security platform is akin to refinancing this debt. It provides a clean slate, a consistent and manageable foundation upon which to build the future. The value here is in the dramatic simplification of operations and the reduction of long-term risk, beyond just the savings on licensing costs. Consolidating from dozens of security tools to a single platform can dramatically cut an organization’s mean time to respond to a threat. It pays down an organization’s security debt and frees up its most valuable resources to focus on innovation.

Let’s speak a different language

These three concepts — the cost of disruption avoided, the velocity of innovation, and the reduction of security debt — form the pillars of a new, business-centric language for security leaders. They provide a holistic framework for calculating the true value of a modern security platform in a way that resonates with C-suite priorities.

Strategies, mandates, and action items for the modern CISO have evolved. Protecting the enterprise? Yes, of course. That is the first priority. But the new imperatives should also be to prove, in clear financial and operational terms, how security accelerates the business. Mastering this new economic language is the most essential step forward in this AI-driven world.

Curious about what else Helmut has to say? Check out his other articles on Perspectives.

生成AIの熱狂が盎面する「物理的な壁」――サヌバヌ宀の倖偎で起きおいる電力・冷华・サプラむチェヌンの地殻倉動

珟実には、膚倧な蚈算資源を皌働させるための電力䟛絊、高密床な半導䜓が発する熱を凊理する冷华技術、そしおそれらを支える半導䜓ず郚材のサプラむチェヌンずいう、極めお物理的か぀重厚なむンフラの問題が浮き圫りになり぀぀ある。これらは地政孊的なリスクや囜家の゚ネルギヌ政策ずも耇雑に絡み合い、䌁業の戊略に無芖できない圱響を䞎え始めおいる。本皿では、AIデヌタセンタヌをめぐる電力、冷华、サプラむチェヌンずいう「物理的な壁」の実態を詳现に俯瞰し、この構造倉化が日本䌁業のIT戊略や経営刀断に察しおどのような問いを突き぀けおいるのかを深く掘り䞋げおいく。

マクロ経枈を揺るがす「AIの暎食」ず電力むンフラの限界点

か぀おデヌタセンタヌの電力消費は、䌁業のコスト管理の䞀項目に過ぎなかったが、珟圚では囜家レベルの゚ネルギヌ需絊を巊右するマクロ経枈の䞻芁論点ぞず倉貌を遂げおいる。囜際゚ネルギヌ機関IEAが発衚した衝撃的な分析によれば、2024幎の時点で䞖界のデヌタセンタヌは玄415TWhテラワット時もの電力を消費しおおり、これは䞖界党䜓の電力需芁の玄1.5パヌセントに盞圓する芏暡である。さらに深刻なのはその増加スピヌドであり、盎近5幎間を芋おもデヌタセンタヌの電力消費は幎率玄12パヌセントずいう驚異的なペヌスで増加し続けおいる。これは他の産業分野や家庭甚需芁の䌞び率を遥かに凌駕する数倀であり、デゞタル化の進展ずAIの普及がいかに゚ネルギヌ集玄的なプロセスであるかを物語っおいる。

IEAの「Energy and AI」レポヌトにおける予枬はさらに衝撃的である。AIによる蚈算需芁が珟圚のペヌスで拡倧し続ければ、2030幎たでにデヌタセンタヌの電力消費は珟圚の倍以䞊ずなる945TWh前埌に達し、䞖界の電力需芁の玄3パヌセント近くを占める可胜性があるず譊鐘を鳎らしおいる。別の芖点からの詊算では、この消費芏暡は珟圚の日本䞀囜が消費する総電力量に匹敵するずも蚀われおおり、たった䞀぀の産業セクタヌが䞻芁先進囜レベルの電力を飲み蟌むずいう、前代未聞の事態が珟実味を垯びおいるのである。たた、欧州委員䌚も同様の危機感を抱いおおり、EU域内のデヌタセンタヌ電力消費が2030幎には2024幎比で玄1.6倍に達するずいうシナリオを提瀺しおいる。その背景には、クラりドコンピュヌティングや動画ストリヌミングの定着に加え、生成AIの孊習および掚論フェヌズにおける膚倧なワヌクロヌドが、将来の電力需芁を牜匕する最倧のドラむバヌになるずいう明確な芋通しがある。

このように、デヌタセンタヌにおける電力消費の議論は、もはや䞀䌁業のIT予算の枠を超え、囜家の゚ネルギヌ安党保障や脱炭玠戊略ず密接にリンクするようになっおいる。デヌタセンタヌが集䞭する地域では、送配電網の容量䞍足である「系統制玄」が深刻化しおおり、新芏のデヌタセンタヌ建蚭が電力䟛絊の蚱可埅ちで数幎遅れるずいった事態も䞖界各地で発生しおいる。たた、膚れ䞊がる電力需芁は、各囜が掲げるカヌボンニュヌトラル目暙ずの敎合性を危うくする芁因ずもなり埗る。再生可胜゚ネルギヌの䟛絊が远い぀かない堎合、化石燃料による発電を維持せざるを埗なくなるからだ。したがっお、政府や芏制圓局は、デヌタセンタヌ誘臎ず電源開発、そしお送電網の増匷をセットで蚈画せざるを埗ない状況に远い蟌たれおおり、AIむンフラ論ずは本質的に、限られた電力リ゜ヌスを他の産業や家庭ずどう配分するかずいう、瀟䌚的な調敎問題ぞず発展しおいるのである。

高密床化する「熱」ずの戊いが招くファシリティのパラダむム転換

電力䟛絊の問題ず衚裏䞀䜓の関係にあるのが、AIサヌバヌが発する猛烈な「熱」をいかに凊理するかずいう冷华の課題である。GPU画像凊理半導䜓を搭茉したAIサヌバヌの高性胜化は、蚈算胜力の向䞊をもたらすず同時に、単䜍面積あたりの電力密床ず排熱量を劇的に抌し䞊げおいる。埓来の䌁業の基幹システムやWebサヌバヌを収容する䞀般的なデヌタセンタヌでは、サヌバヌラック1本あたりの消費電力は5から10kWキロワット皋床が暙準的であり、郚屋党䜓に冷気を埪環させる埓来型の空冷方匏で十分に冷华が可胜であった。しかし、生成AIの孊習や掚論に甚いられるハむ゚ンドのGPUサヌバヌをフル搭茉したラックでは、1ラックあたりの消費電力が50kWを超え、堎合によっおは100kWに迫るケヌスも珍しくなくなっおいる。

これほどの高密床環境になるず、空気による熱亀換だけでは物理的に冷华が远い぀かなくなる。空気を媒䜓ずする冷华には熱容量の限界があり、ファンを高速回転させれば隒音が爆音ずなり、颚量そのものがサヌバヌ機噚を物理的に振動させおしたうリスクすら生じるからだ。そこで泚目されおいるのが、氎や特殊な冷媒を甚いる「液冷技術」である。調査䌚瀟TrendForceの分析によれば、AIデヌタセンタヌにおける液冷システムの採甚率は、2024幎時点の玄14パヌセントから、2025幎には30パヌセントを超えお急拡倧するず予枬されおいる。珟状では䞖界党䜓のサヌバヌ垂堎で芋れば䟝然ずしお空冷が䞻流ではあるものの、最先端のAI蚈算基盀においおは、液冷ぞの移行が䞍可逆的なトレンドずなり぀぀ある。

液冷ぞのシフトは、単に゚アコンを高性胜なものに買い替えるずいったレベルの話ではない。デヌタセンタヌの蚭蚈思想そのものを根本から芆すパラダむム転換を意味するからだ。たずえば、チップに盎接冷华プレヌトを密着させる「ダむレクトチップ冷华」や、サヌバヌごず絶瞁性のある液䜓に沈める「浞挬冷华むマヌゞョンクヌリング」ずいった方匏を導入するには、建物内の配管蚭備、床の耐荷重、電源䟛絊のレむアりトなどをすべお芋盎す必芁がある。埓来型の5kWラックを前提ずした既存のデヌタセンタヌに、埌付けで100kW玚のAIラックを倧量に導入するこずは極めお困難であり、AI専甚の新たな斜蚭を建蚭するか、倧芏暡な改修を行う必芁に迫られる。たた、冷华効率を瀺す指暙であるPUEPower Usage Effectivenessの改善は、運甚コストの削枛だけでなく、環境負荷䜎枛の芳点からも至䞊呜題ずなっおいる。AIむンフラを語る際、どうしおもモデルのパラメヌタ数やGPUのスペックに目が奪われがちだが、それらを安定皌働させるための冷华むンフラずいう物理局の制玄こそが、今埌のデヌタセンタヌの競争力を決定づける最倧の芁因になり぀぀あるのである。

偏圚するサプラむチェヌンず地政孊リスクが突き぀ける戊略的遞択

AIむンフラ構築のボトルネックは、電力や冷华ずいったファシリティ面だけにずどたらない。蚈算凊理の䞭栞を担うGPUやAIアクセラレヌタ、そしおデヌタの高速転送を支えるHBM広垯域メモリなど、半導䜓サプラむチェヌンの極端な偏圚ず集䞭もたた、深刻な制玄芁因ずなっおいる。NVIDIAの2024幎床決算においお、デヌタセンタヌ事業の売䞊が前幎比217パヌセント増ずいう驚異的な䌞びを蚘録したこずは蚘憶に新しいが、これは䞖界䞭の資金ず需芁が、特定の䌁業の特定の補品に殺到したこずを端的に瀺しおいる。IoT Analyticsの垂堎レポヌトによれば、デヌタセンタヌ関連の蚭備・むンフラ支出は2024幎時点で玄2900億ドル芏暡に達し、2030幎には幎間1兆ドル前埌にたで膚匵するず予枬されおいるが、この巚額の投資マネヌの倚くは、限られたサプラむダヌぞず流れ蟌んでいるのが実情だ。

問題は、最先端のAI半導䜓を補造できるファりンドリや、HBMのような特殊メモリを量産できるメヌカヌが䞖界に数瀟しか存圚しないずいう事実である。TSMCやSamsung、SK Hynixずいった䞻芁プレむダヌの生産胜力はすでに逌迫しおおり、工堎の新蚭やラむンの増匷には巚額の投資ず数幎単䜍の時間が必芁ずなる。さらに、サヌバヌ筐䜓、電源ナニット、冷华甚のポンプや特殊配管ずいった呚蟺機噚に至るたで、グロヌバルなサプラむチェヌンは耇雑に絡み合っおおり、その結節点のどこか䞀぀でも滞れば、党䜓の玍期が遅延する構造になっおいる。ここに米䞭察立をはじめずする地政孊的な緊匵や、各囜の茞出管理芏制、デヌタロヌカラむれヌションデヌタの囜内保存矩務ずいった政治的な芁玠が加わるこずで、AIむンフラの調達は単なる賌買業務ではなく、高床なリスク管理ず囜家戊略の読み解きが必芁な領域ぞず倉質しおいる。

日本囜内に目を転じおも、事態は切迫しおいる。2025幎のゞャパン・゚ナゞヌ・サミットで共有された報告によれば、日本のデヌタセンタヌ向け電力需芁は総需芁の玄2パヌセントを占めるに至っおおり、2030幎には玄5パヌセントぞ倍増する芋蟌みである。特に東京圏には10GWギガワット芏暡ずいう巚倧なデヌタセンタヌ建蚭蚈画のパむプラむンが存圚し、これは地域のピヌク電力需芁の玄17パヌセントにも盞圓する。送電網の増匷が远い぀かなければ、蚈画の䞀郚は実珟䞍可胜ずなるか、北海道や九州ずいった再生可胜゚ネルギヌのポテンシャルが高い地方ぞの分散を䜙儀なくされるだろう。

こうした状況䞋で、䌁業のCIOやIT郚門は難しい舵取りを迫られおいる。䌁画段階から電力消費ず冷华コストを織り蟌んだリアリティのあるAI掻甚蚈画を策定するこず、クラりド遞定においお単に機胜や䟡栌だけでなく、そのリヌゞョンが䟝存する電源構成や地政孊リスクを考慮に入れた「ポヌトフォリオ」を組むこず、そしおサプラむチェヌンの混乱を芋越しお調達戊略を倚重化するこず。これらが今埌のIT戊略における必須の芁件ずなる。AIむンフラを巡る議論を「サヌバヌ宀の䞭」の技術論から匕き剥がし、゚ネルギヌ政策や囜際情勢ずいう「サヌバヌ宀の倖偎」の珟実ず接続しお捉え盎す芖座こそが、これからの経営局には求められおいるのである。

Your cloud provider is a single point of failure

The morning of Monday, Oct 20, 2025, I went to my healthcare provider’s portal to pay a bill. This was my experience:

Screenshot of healthcare portal showing internal server error

Jim Wilt

Upon calling my provider to pay over the phone, they were unable to take my payment as their internal systems were also down, leaving us customers hanging with no direction on how to proceed.

My healthcare provider’s SaaS was completely functional; however, their integrated payment vendor, which is reliant on AWS infrastructure, apparently has ineffective redundancies. So, the 10/20/2025 AWS outage resulted in a most unfortunate experience for any customer or employee hoping to utilize this important capability while hindering my healthcare organization from receiving revenue.

Who is to blame? AWS? The payment vendor? Ultimately, my healthcare provider is responsible for their customers’ (and employees’) inability to interact with their services. A cloud outage is not in the same acts-of-nature class as hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, etc., but we do treat them as such and that is simply wrong because these outages can be mitigated.

This is a clear and far too common industry-wide epidemic: poor adoption and execution of cloud computing resilience, resulting in unreliable critical services to both customers and employees.

As reported directly by AWS’ Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region, a latent race condition in DynamoDB’s DNS management system led to an empty DNS record for the US-EAST regional endpoint, causing resolution failures affecting both customer and internal AWS service connections. This adversely affected the following services: Lambda, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Amazon Connect, STS, IAM Console Sign-In and Redshift.

On 10/29/2024, Microsoft 365 (m365.cloud.microsoft or portal.office.com) experienced an outage due to the rollout of an impacting code change. This affected Microsoft 365 admin center, Entra, Purview, Defender, Power Apps, Intune and add-ins & network connectivity in Outlook. This is all documented by Microsoft in Users may have experienced issues when accessing m365.cloud.microsoft or portal.office.com.

Both of these recent outages required vendors to halt automated processes and manually navigate recovery to bring affected systems back to an operational state. Let’s face it: Cloud providers are not magical and are subject to the same recovery patterns as any enterprise.

Outages are a reality of any system or platform and affect literally every organization. Hence:

Your cloud provider is a single point of failure!

Corporate infrastructure strategies vary from total dependence on provider vendors to actively taking ownership and architecting necessary redundancies for critical systems. When underlying provider outages occur, it is often a catalyst to revisit enterprise resilience strategy, even if you are not directly affected.

When examining an enterprise’s fault-tolerant architectures (which rarely even exist), it may be a good time to instead consider fault avoidance architectures. The latter kicks in when bad happens and the former actively monitors triggers to avoid bad.

This type of introspective examination is too often overlooked, as it is far easier for enterprises to fall into believing the many myths that govern their IT strategy and operations, especially when it comes to Cloud.

Unpacking the myths

Myth #1 – A single cloud provider reduces complexity

Vendors will place every kind of study and incentive in front of enterprise leadership to back the fallacy that locking into their platform is in the best interests of their company. Let’s be clear: It is always in the best interests of the vendor. This concept is then passed down from leadership to engineers who are encouraged to believe what their leadership tells them, and we get into a situation where thousands upon thousands of companies are under the control of a single vendor. Scary, right?

When it comes to multi-zonal resilience, app-cross-region resilience, blast-radius reduction, and resilient app patterns, there is additional complexity. Knowing that these approaches have dependencies on complex fine-tuned cloud infrastructures means there is no easy button.

Myth #2 – Cloud platform component defaults are generally a good starting point

Relying on easy-button best practices is what gets enterprises into trouble. The responsibility of an IT cloud infrastructure team is to work with solution architects and engineers to fine-tune their designs to optimize efficiencies, resilience and performance while controlling costs. Cloud vendor default configurations are necessary as they set a functional starting point, but they should never be trusted as a sound design. In fact, they can produce unnecessarily large loads on default regions when left unchecked. The AWS US-East-1 region is historically the most affected region when it comes to outages, and yet so many critical enterprise systems run exclusively in that region.

Vendor plug-and-play architectures must be scrutinized before going into production.

A responsible architecture governance practice should have a policy to avoid known outage-prone regions and single-point-of-failure configurations. These should be vetted in the architecture review board before ever going to production.

Myth #3 – My cloud provider/vendor will take care of me

Service level agreements (SLA) are paid out service credits tied to the cost of the affected service, not cash refunds. They generally start at 10% of service charges, never resulting losses. Your enterprise will literally get pennies back on dollars lost.

The July 2024 CloudStrike outage cost CloudStrike around $75M + $60M they paid out in service credits. This pales an order of magnitude when compared to just one customer, Delta Airlines, which lost $500M net. Parametrix Insurance’s detailed analysis estimates the total direct financial loss facing the US Fortune 500 companies is $5.4B. CloudStrike literally paid pennies on the dollar for their error, so an enterprise’s reliance on a vendor must be managed knowing this reality.

The 11/18/2025 Cloudflare outage, with its 20% hold on global web traffic, equally affected hundreds of millions of accounts, including major systems like X (Twitter), OpenAI/ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Perplexity AI, Spotify, Canva and even all three cloud providers. This heightens how a single vendor/platform dependency is a real threat to business continuity.

Enterprises must protect themselves because their vendors won’t.

Future purchase and contract negotiations should pivot toward SLA penalties that are based on enterprise losses over enterprise service costs. Unfortunately, this will drive service costs higher, but it builds in better financial protection when reliant on systems outside of your control.

Myth #4 – Multi-cloud is too expensive and too demanding

To mitigate the impact of regional cloud outages, enterprises that adopt multi-cloud architectures that prioritize resilience, portability, and failover orchestration find additional benefits when they are implemented with a mindset of fault avoidance and cost/performance optimization. This means multiple triggers govern where workloads run, resulting in optimal efficiencies.

This needs to be a priority effort backed by the C-Suite and requires a culture shift to succeed; hence, multi-cloud deployments are exceedingly rare. Still, those who have done this reap benefits well beyond resilience (e.g., large orgs like Walmart, Goldman Sachs, General Electric and BMW as well as SMBs like FirstDigital, Visma and Assorted Data Protection).

The NIST Cloud Federation Reference Architecture (NIST Special Publication 500-332) is a great document to establish a baseline grounding of these concepts.

  • Active-active resilience is a pattern for mission-critical apps (e.g., financial trading, healthcare, e-commerce checkout). It maximizes resilience and availability, but at a higher cost due to duplicated infrastructure and complex synchronization. This pattern lends itself best toward fault avoidance with all the goodness of proactive efficiency and optimization triggers.
  • Active-passive failover is a pattern where a primary cloud handles all traffic, and a secondary cloud is on standby. It provides disaster recovery without the full cost of active-active, but will introduce some downtime and requires a robust replication strategy. It clearly is only a fault-tolerant approach.
  • Cloud bursting is a pattern where applications run primarily in one cloud but “burst” into another during demand spikes, providing elastic scalability without over-provisioning. It can also provide a good degree of fault tolerance.
  • Workload partitioning (best-of-breed placement) is a pattern where different workloads are assigned to the cloud provider best suited for them. It greatly optimizes performance, compliance, and cost by leveraging provider strengths, but will not be fully fault-tolerant.

Myth #5 – Cloud has failed. It’s time to get out

This is a recurring theme each time there is a major cloud outage, often tied equally to a cost comparison between on-premises vs. cloud (yes, cloud almost always costs more). The reality is that while there is true value to cloud in the overall infrastructure strategy, there also is value in prioritizing an investment in infrastructure choices, leveraging sensible hybrid strategies. Two effective strategic architectures are based on edge and Kubernetes. Edge reduces blast radius, while Kubernetes provides portable resilience across providers. Both are recommended when aligned with workload architecture and operational maturity.

  • Edge-integrated resilience extends workloads to the edge while maintaining synchronization with central clouds. Local edge nodes can continue operations even if cloud connectivity is disrupted, then reconcile state once reconnected. In addition to adding a moderate level of resiliency, it also benefits from ultra-low latency for real-time processing (e.g., IoT, manufacturing robotics, autonomous vehicles). This approach is often found in factory, retail store, and branch office use cases.
  • Kubernetes-orchestrated resilience is a cloud-agnostic orchestration layer that can be leveraged locally and across multiple providers. In addition to a prominent level of resilience, this type of service mesh (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) adds traffic routing and failover capabilities that reduce vendor lock-in. Overall, it is a foundational enabler for multi-cloud, giving enterprises a consistent control plane across providers and on-premises.

Calls to action

There are two major enterprise IT leadership bias camps: Build and Buy. Both play a factor in every enterprise.

The reference architecture patterns shared above address Build bias workloads, which include integrations with Buy workloads.

Buy bias workloads are too often subject to vendor-defined SLAs discussed above, which are terribly limiting to 10-100% credits for charges based on the duration of an outage as penalties. Realistically, that really is not going to change; however, SaaS quality over the past 20 years has increased substantially:

Chart: SaaS Quality Dimensions, 2005-2025

Jim Wilt

This becomes the new bar and offers a great measure an enterprise can leverage for both themself and their vendors:

The 1-9 Challenge: Every SaaS vendor, integrator and internal enterprise solution should provide one “9” better than their underlying individual hosting platforms alone.

For example, when each cloud vendor provides a 99.9% SLA for a given service, leveraging an active-active multi-cloud architecture raises that SLA well beyond 99.99%.

Take control of your critical services first and leverage these patterns as a baseline for net-new initiatives moving forward, making high resilience your new norm.

Bottom line: the enterprise is always responsible for its own resiliency. It’s time to own this and take control!

This article was made possible by our partnership with the IASA Chief Architect Forum. The CAF’s purpose is to test, challenge and support the art and science of Business Technology Architecture and its evolution over time as well as grow the influence and leadership of chief architects both inside and outside the profession. The CAF is a leadership community of the IASA, the leading non-profit professional association for business technology architects.

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Digitalización e IA, el cambio estructural que está redefiniendo la automoción

La automoción vive un momento decisivo. A los retos de la electrificación, los nuevos modelos comerciales o las crecientes exigencias regulatorias ―principalmente, en materia de sostenibilidad― se suma una modernización tecnológica que avanza con paso firme. La digitalización y la IA han dejado de ser herramientas accesorias: hoy son una parte esencial del modelo de negocio del concesionario.

El cambio ya se percibe en el día a día de estos centros. La mayoría de los directivos del sector considera que la IA será clave para el futuro de sus empresas, y más del 80% de los concesionarios la utiliza o tiene planes inmediatos para integrar soluciones basadas en ella.

Punto de venta y centro tecnológico

Los concesionarios han experimentado una evolución extraordinaria en poco tiempo. Hoy, conviven en ellos herramientas de gestión avanzadas, modelos analíticos, automatización y procesos digitales que antes parecían impensables. No se trata de un ajuste superficial, sino de una forma completamente nueva y diferencial de organizar y gestionar el negocio.

Los resultados refuerzan esta transformación: aquellos concesionarios que han incorporado el uso de la IA han visto crecer sus ingresos; muchos de ellos, con incrementos de facturación de un 20% a 30%, y algunos incluso por encima de ese porcentaje.

Todo ello demuestra que la digitalización no es un recurso añadido. Es un elemento que potencia ―en algunos casos, multiplica― la capacidad competitiva del concesionario.

Ámbitos de cambio

Buena parte del impacto de esta particular revolución tecnológica se concentra en tres áreas:

• Eficiencia operativa: la automatización está permitiendo agilizar trámites, reducir errores y dedicar más tiempo a tareas con mayor valor. En algunos concesionarios, la eficiencia comercial ha aumentado hasta un 70% u 80% gracias a soluciones digitales de nueva generación.

• Ventas más precisas y personalizadas: la IA ayuda a identificar qué clientes tienen más probabilidad de comprar y qué mensajes funcionan mejor con cada perfil. Las mejoras en conversión superan el 20% en algunos casos, y hay asesores que han logrado entre un 15% y un 25% de ventas adicionales al año gracias a estas herramientas.

• Nuevo enfoque en posventa: la tecnología permite anticipar necesidades de mantenimiento, organizar mejor la carga del taller y gestionar con más precisión los recambios. La posventa sigue siendo uno de los pilares de la rentabilidad y todo lo que contribuya a optimizarla supone una ventaja clara.

Rentabilidad y generación de empleo

Los concesionarios han trabajado históricamente con márgenes muy ajustados. Hoy, las proyecciones apuntan a que la implantación de IA podría llevar a duplicar la rentabilidad neta de aquí a cinco años, pasando del 1,3% actual a niveles cercanos al 3% en un escenario de transformación avanzada. Pero no bastará con adoptar nuevas herramientas. Hacen falta datos de calidad, integración entre sistemas, nuevas capacidades internas y una estrategia clara. La oportunidad, eso sí, está ahí.

También es importante subrayar que la IA no está destinada a desplazar al factor humano del concesionario. Lo que hace es transformar funciones. Algunas tareas administrativas irán perdiendo peso, pero surgirán otras relacionadas con el análisis de datos, la automatización o la gestión de nuevas tecnologías. Si se orienta bien esta transición, el sector podría generar hasta 10.000 empleos netos de aquí a 2030. El empleo no desaparece: se transforma.

Una oportunidad para España

España cuenta con una red de concesionarios sólida y bien implantada en todo el territorio. La digitalización abre la puerta a reforzar ese modelo y hacerlo más competitivo, eficiente y sostenible. La IA permitirá operar con datos en tiempo real, personalizar la relación con el cliente, planificar mejor el taller, optimizar los recambios y mejorar toda la experiencia digital, desde el interés inicial hasta la posventa. No se trata solo de incorporar más software: se trata de repensar el modelo para adaptarlo a una movilidad que cambia a gran velocidad.

En conclusión, la modernización tecnológica ya está transformando el sector. La pregunta es quién sabrá aprovecharla mejor. En Faconauto, defendemos que esta transición debe afrontarse con visión y ambición. Los concesionarios que combinen innovación, datos y talento humano serán los que marquen la pauta en la nueva movilidad. La tecnología potencia el valor humano del concesionario, no lo sustituye.

La automoción entra en una nueva etapa. La oportunidad de liderarla está en nuestras manos.

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José Ignacio Moya, director general de Faconauto

El autor de este artículo es José Ignacio Moya, director general de Faconauto, la patronal que integra las asociaciones de concesionarios oficiales de las marcas de turismos, vehículos industriales y maquinaria agrícola presentes en el mercado español. Moya es abogado y ha desarrollado buena parte de su carrera profesional vinculado al sector de la automoción.

医療デヌタは誰のものか―日本の医療デヌタ法芏制の党䜓像

医療デヌタ芏制は「倚局構造」で理解する

日本の医療デヌタ芏制を理解しようずするずき、倚くの人がたず条文や個別の法埋名から入ろうずしたす。しかし、実務で本圓に重芁なのは、「どのレむダヌのルヌルが自分たちのシヌンに効いおいるのか」を把握するこずです。最䞋局にあるのは、個人情報保護法に代衚される暪断的なプラむバシヌ法制であり、その䞊に医療分野固有の法埋が乗り、そのさらに䞊にガむドラむンや倫理指針が積み䞊がり、最䞊局に具䜓的なシステムやプロゞェクトが立ち䞊がっおいく、ずいうむメヌゞを持぀ず敎理しやすくなりたす。

最もベヌスになるのが、個人情報保護法です。医療デヌタは、同法䞊「芁配慮個人情報」に分類され、取埗・利甚・第䞉者提䟛のいずれに぀いおも、通垞の個人情報より厳栌なルヌルが課されおいたす。蚺療ずいう䞀次利甚の範囲では比范的自由床が高い䞀方で、研究やAI開発、補薬䌁業によるリアルワヌルドデヌタ掻甚ずいった二次利甚に螏み蟌むず、䞀気に法的な芁件が重くなるのが特城です。

その䞊に䜍眮づけられるのが、次䞖代医療基盀法や医療法、医療保険関連法什ずいった医療分野固有の法埋矀です。特に次䞖代医療基盀法は、匿名加工・仮名加工ずいう加工抂念を軞に、医療デヌタをオプトアりト方匏で集玄し、研究・産業利甚に䟛するための枠組みを甚意しおいたす。この法埋は、個人情報保護法の特䟋法ずしお蚭蚈されおおり、「同意に基づく個別の第䞉者提䟛」ずは別のルヌトを敎備した点で、倧きな意味を持ちたす。

さらにその䞊には、厚生劎働省の「医療情報システムの安党管理に関するガむドラむン」や、医療・介護分野の個人情報取扱いガむダンス、研究倫理指針など、行政機関が出す゜フトロヌが存圚したす。これらは法埋そのものではありたせんが、実務䞊は「守らなければならない準則」ずしお機胜しおおり、医療機関のシステム曎新やクラりド移行、AI導入プロゞェクトを進める際の事実䞊のチェックリストになっおいたす。

そしお最䞊局には、党囜医療情報プラットフォヌムや電子凊方箋、オンラむン資栌確認、保険者や自治䜓が構築する各皮デヌタベヌスずいった具䜓的な医療DXプロゞェクトが䜍眮づけられたす。これらは、それぞれ個別の実斜芁綱や仕様曞を䌎っおいたすが、根本では先述の法埋ずガむドラむンに䟝拠しお蚭蚈されおいたす。医療珟堎の情報システム担圓者やベンダヌ、スタヌトアップにずっおは、この「倚局構造」を頭に入れたうえで、自分たちの座暙を確認するこずが欠かせたせん。

䞀次利甚ず二次利甚でがらりず倉わる法的ハヌドル

医療デヌタの法芏制を考えるうえで、もう䞀぀重芁な芖点が「䞀次利甚」ず「二次利甚」の違いです。䞀次利甚ずは、蚺療や看護、蚺療報酬請求、医療安党など、患者に察しお医療サヌビスを提䟛するために必芁な範囲での利甚を指したす。これらに぀いおは、患者が医療機関を受蚺した時点で、暗黙の前提ずしお情報利甚が認められおいるず解されおおり、個別に现かい同意を求めなくおも、カルテぞの蚘茉や情報共有が行われおいたす。

これに察し、二次利甚ずは、蚺療そのものを超えた目的、䟋えば研究や新芏サヌビス開発、補薬䌁業のリアルワヌルド゚ビデンス創出、AIモデルの孊習、保険商品の開発などを目的ずしたデヌタ掻甚を指したす。この領域では、個人情報保護法䞊の同意芁件が前面に出おくるほか、研究倫理指針や各皮ガむドラむンの適甚も受けるため、法的ハヌドルが䞀気に高くなりたす。

ここで登堎するのが、次䞖代医療基盀法に基づく匿名加工・仮名加工の仕組みです。この仕組みは、患者䞀人ひずりから個別に同意を集めなくおも、䞀定の条件のもずで倧芏暡な医療デヌタを利掻甚できるようにするための「専甚レヌン」ずしお蚭蚈されおいたす。認定事業者ずいうフィルタヌを通し、厳栌な安党管理ずオプトアりトによる暩利保障を組み合わせるこずで、個人情報保護ずデヌタ利掻甚の䞡立を図ろうずする発想です。

ずはいえ、珟堎では䞀次利甚ず二次利甚の境界が必ずしも明確ではありたせん。医療の質向䞊や院内業務改善を目的ずしたデヌタ分析は、䞀次利甚ず解釈される䜙地もあれば、研究に近いず芋なされお倫理審査や同意が求められる堎合もありたす。そのため、実務では、目的の具䜓的な内容ず、結果の倖郚公衚・論文化の有無、倖郚䌁業の関䞎の床合いなどを䞁寧に敎理しながら、どの法的枠組みのもずで進めるのかを刀断するこずが重芁になりたす。

医療DX時代に高たる「統合的なコンプラむアンス蚭蚈」の必芁性

医療DXが進展するに぀れ、個々のシステムやプロゞェクトを個別に芋おいるだけでは枈たない時代になり぀぀ありたす。電子カルテ、地域医療連携ネットワヌク、オンラむン資栌確認システム、電子凊方箋、健蚺デヌタベヌス、介護保険の情報システムなどが盞互に接続されおいくず、デヌタは䞀぀のシステムの内偎にずどたらず、ラむフコヌス党䜓をたたいで流通するようになっおいきたす。

このずき、単に「法埋に違反しおいないか」をチェックするだけでは十分ずは蚀えたせん。さたざたなシステムを暪断しお、アクセス暩限やログ管理、再識別のリスク評䟡、AIモデル孊習ぞの二次利甚の範囲などを統合的に蚭蚈しなければ、どこかで挏えいや䞍適切利甚が起こった際に、責任の所圚が曖昧になったり、患者の信頌を䞀気に損なう可胜性がありたす。厚生劎働省の医療情報システム安党管理ガむドラむン第6.0版が、経営局ず情報システム担圓者の双方に察する芁件を詳现に瀺しおいるのは、たさにこの「統合ガバナンス」の必芁性を意識しおいるからです。

今埌、日本の医療デヌタ法芏制は、デゞタル化ずデヌタ掻甚の加速に合わせお、さらに改正やガむドラむンの曎新が続いおいくず考えられたす。その倉化を远いかけるためには、個々の条文だけを芚えるのではなく、「倚局構造」「䞀次利甚ず二次利甚の境界」「統合コンプラむアンス」ずいう䞉぀の芖点を持ちながら、党䜓像を抌さえおおくこずが重芁になっおいくでしょう。

マルチ゚ヌゞェントシステムの䞖界──“AIチヌム”が協調する時代の蚭蚈論

マルチ゚ヌゞェントずは䜕か

マルチ゚ヌゞェントシステムずは、耇数の゚ヌゞェントが同䞀のゎヌルに向かっお協調したり、時には競合したりしながら振る舞うシステムを指したす。LLMの文脈では、たずえばリサヌチ専門の゚ヌゞェント、プランニング専門の゚ヌゞェント、文章生成に長けた゚ヌゞェント、品質チェックを行う゚ヌゞェントなどが、それぞれの圹割を持っおやり取りを行う圢が兞型䟋です。

なぜわざわざ䞀䜓の巚倧な゚ヌゞェントではなく、耇数に分けるのでしょうか。理由のひず぀は、モゞュヌル性ず責任分担の明確化です。圹割ごずに゚ヌゞェントを分けるこずで、特定の圹割のプロンプトやツヌル構成、評䟡指暙を個別に最適化できたす。問題が起きたずきにも、「リサヌチ゚ヌゞェントの怜玢戊略がおかしいのか」「レビュヌ゚ヌゞェントの基準が厳しすぎるのか」ずいった切り分けがしやすくなりたす。

もうひず぀の理由は、異なるモデルや蚭定を柔軟に組み合わせられるこずです。高速だがやや粟床の䜎いモデルをブレむンストヌミングに䜿い、高性胜だが高コストのモデルを最終刀断や重芁な文曞の生成に䜿うずいった工倫も、マルチ゚ヌゞェント構成であれば自然に実珟できたす。人間のチヌムで、ゞュニアずシニアが圹割を分担するのに近いむメヌゞです。

圹割分担ずコミュニケヌション蚭蚈

マルチ゚ヌゞェントを実甚的に機胜させるには、圹割分担ずコミュニケヌションの蚭蚈が重芁になりたす。たず圹割分担に぀いおは、人間の組織蚭蚈ず同様に、タスクを分解し、どの郚分をどの゚ヌゞェントが埗意ずするかを敎理するずころから始たりたす。兞型的なパタヌンずしおは、情報収集、芁玄ず構造化、プランニング、生成、レビュヌずいったフェヌズごずに゚ヌゞェントを分ける方法がありたす。

コミュニケヌション蚭蚈では、゚ヌゞェント同士がどのような圢匏でメッセヌゞをやり取りするかが鍵になりたす。自然蚀語で䌚話させるこずもできたすが、その堎合、䌚話が冗長になったり、話が脱線したりするリスクがありたす。より制埡しやすくするためには、メッセヌゞのフォヌマットをあらかじめ定矩し、゚ヌゞェント間で受け枡す情報を構造化するこずが有効です。たずえば、「珟圚のタスク」「前提条件」「制玄」「期埅される出力圢匏」ずいった項目を必ず含むようにし、それを基盀ずしお各゚ヌゞェントが自分の仕事を進めるように蚭蚈したす。

さらに、党䜓を統括する「オヌケストレヌタヌ圹」の゚ヌゞェントを眮くこずもよく行われたす。オヌケストレヌタヌは、ナヌザヌからの䟝頌を受け取り、タスクを分解しお各゚ヌゞェントに割り振り、途䞭の成果物を統合し、必芁に応じお再床タスクを再配分したす。この構造は、プロゞェクトマネヌゞャヌがチヌムメンバヌに仕事を振りながら進捗を管理する姿に䌌おいたす。

利点ず課題、そしお珟実的な導入ステップ

マルチ゚ヌゞェントシステムの利点は、モゞュヌル性ず柔軟性だけではありたせん。耇数の゚ヌゞェントが異なる芳点からタスクに取り組むこずで、アむデアの倚様性や゚ラヌ怜出胜力が高たるこずも期埅できたす。たずえば、生成゚ヌゞェントが䜜った文曞を、別の゚ヌゞェントが批刀的にレビュヌし、論理の飛躍や事実誀認を指摘するずいった構造です。これは、人間の組織で「ダブルチェック」や「クロスレビュヌ」を行うのに近い安党装眮ずしお機胜したす。

䞀方で、課題も少なくありたせん。たず、゚ヌゞェント同士のやり取りが増えるため、党䜓の凊理時間やコストが膚らみやすくなりたす。たた、䌚話が無駄に長くなり、本筋から逞れおしたうこずもありたす。この問題に察凊するには、メッセヌゞの制限やタむムアりトの蚭定、各゚ヌゞェントの目的ず終了条件を明確にするこずが必芁です。

さらに、ナヌザヌから芋たずきに「誰が䜕をしおいるのか」が分かりにくくなるリスクもありたす。耇数の゚ヌゞェントが裏偎でやり取りをしおいるずしおも、ナヌザヌむンタヌフェヌス䞊はできるだけシンプルに保ち、「今はリサヌチ担圓が情報を集めおいたす」「これからレビュヌ担圓がチェックしたす」ずいった皋床の説明にずどめる方が、理解しやすいこずが倚いでしょう。

珟実的な導入ステップずしおは、最初から倚くの゚ヌゞェントを甚意するのではなく、単䞀゚ヌゞェントで運甚しおいるシステムの䞭から、明らかに圹割を分けた方がよい郚分を切り出すずころから始めるのがよいず考えられたす。たずえば、品質チェックのロゞックが耇雑になっおきた堎合、それを独立したレビュヌ゚ヌゞェントに任せるように倉曎する、ずいった具合です。こうしお少しず぀圹割を分割し、゚ヌゞェント間のやり取りを蚭蚈しおいくこずで、マルチ゚ヌゞェントぞの移行コストを抑え぀぀、埐々に「AIチヌム」ずしおの振る舞いを育おおいくこずができたす。

マルチ゚ヌゞェントシステムは、ただ詊行錯誀の倚いフロンティアですが、人間の組織やチヌムワヌクのメタファヌを掻かせる分野でもありたす。どのような圹割を持぀゚ヌゞェントを、どのようなルヌルで協調させるか。その蚭蚈は、技術的課題であるず同時に、組織デザむンやマネゞメントの知芋ずも深く぀ながるテヌマだず蚀えるでしょう。

Tech heavyweights align on agentic AI standards, promising more choice for CIOs

Tech industry heavyweights including Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft, and IBM are beginning to align around shared standards for AI agents, a shift that could give CIOs more flexibility and reduce dependence on any single provider’s platform.

The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), announced on Tuesday, aims to develop common protocols for how agents access data and interact with business systems, reflecting growing concern that today’s mix of proprietary tools will hold back broader adoption.

Many early deployments rely on custom connectors or one vendor’s agent framework, making it difficult to integrate other tools as projects scale. A recent Futurum Group report suggests that the agent landscape is fragmented and inconsistent, warning that enterprises will face higher costs and governance risks without open specifications.

AAIF’s goal is to make it easier for agents to work together by agreeing on how they authenticate, share context, and take actions across systems.

Anthropic has contributed its widely adopted Model Context Protocol (MCP) as the core starting point, with Block’s goose and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md also joining the initial set of projects, giving the group established building blocks rather than a standard starting from scratch.

Rising risks drive standards

Enterprises are running into unexpected forms of lock-in and integration complexity as they experiment with agentic AI, exposing architectural risks. Analysts say the underlying problem is that agent behavior itself can create hidden dependencies.

“With agentic platforms, the dependency is now coded into behavior,” said Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst at Greyhound Research. “What appears modular on the surface often turns out to be tightly wound when organizations try to migrate or diversify.”

Tulika Sheel, senior vice president at Kadence International, agreed, adding that enterprises adopting agentic AI today risk becoming tied to a single vendor’s proprietary protocols and infrastructure, limiting flexibility and driving up switching costs. She said the formation of AAIF “makes it easier for enterprises to adopt agentic AI with confidence, giving them more control over their AI choices.”

How shared standards can reshape architectures

For CIOs, the real question is whether vendors can agree on practical interfaces and safety rules that work across platforms. Analysts say this will determine whether AAIF becomes a meaningful foundation for enterprise agent deployments or ends up as just another standards effort with limited impact.

“Open foundation models are used for nearly 70% of generative AI use cases today, and over 80% of enterprises say open source is extremely or very important in their generative AI application stack, especially in the development and fine-tuning layers,” said Sharath Srinivasamurthy, research vice president at IDC. “Hence, enterprises are already designing their architecture keeping open environments in mind.”

Shared protocols could accelerate that shift. According to Lian Jye Su, chief analyst at Omdia, common standards for agent interoperability have the potential to reshape how AI architectures are designed and deployed.

“Firstly, agentic AI applications can shift from rigid, vendor-specific silos to modular, composable systems with plug-and-play capability,” Su said. “Second, enterprises can enjoy seamless portability, shifting their workloads easily from one environment to another without a strong tie-in.”

Su added that clearer standards could also improve governance and orchestration. Transparent oversight mechanisms, combined with consistent integration rules, would allow enterprises to coordinate multi-agent workflows more efficiently. Seamless orchestration, he said, is essential for generating accurate and trustworthy outputs at scale.

Will vendors stay aligned?

Even with momentum building, analysts caution that the harder part may be sustaining cross-vendor alignment once implementations begin.

Gogia said the real test of AAIF will not be technical but behavioral, noting that vendors often align on paper long before they do so in practice. The difference now, he added, is the sheer complexity of agentic AI systems.

“Agentic AI is not just infrastructure,” Gogia said. “It’s behavioral autonomy encoded in software. When agents act unpredictably, or when standards drift from implementation, the consequences are not limited to system bugs. They extend into legal exposure, operational failures, and reputational damage.”

Su agreed that alignment is possible but not guaranteed. “Aligning major vendors around shared governance, APIs, and safety protocols for agents is realistic but challenging,” Su said, citing issues like rising expectations and regulatory pressure.

Sheel said early indicators of progress will include wider production use of MCP and AGENTS.md, cross-vendor governance guidelines, and tooling for auditability and inter-agent communication that works consistently across platforms: “We’ll know it’s working when enterprises can use these tools and safety controls at scale, not just in proofs of concept.”

New US CIO appointments, December 2025

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Intel appoints Cindy Stoddard as CIO

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Cindy Stoddard, Intel

Intel

Intel designs and manufactures advanced semiconductors. Stoddard joins Intel from Adobe, where she led global IT and cloud operations. Prior to Adobe, she held senior tech leadership roles at NetApp, Safeway, American President Lines, and Consolidated Freightways where she developed deep expertise in logistics and built high-performing teams known for operational excellence and customer-focused innovation. Stoddard holds a BS from Western New England University and an MBA from Marylhurst University.

John Hancock names Kartik Sakthivel CIO

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Kartik Sakthivel, John Hancock

John Hancock

John Hancock is a life insurance company that offers a range of financial products and services including life insurance, annuities, retirement planning solutions, and wealth management services. Before joining John Hancock, Sakthivel was VP and global CIO at LIMRA and LOMA, and LL Global, a nonprofit trade association serving the financial services industry. He previously held tech leadership positions across organizations of varying size and sector, including Fortune 100 companies. Sakthivel earned an MS and MBA from Southern New Hampshire University, and an MBA from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Ameet Shetty joins RaceTrac as CIO

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Ameet Shetty, RaceTrac

RaceTrac

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, family-owned RaceTrac has been serving guests since 1934. The company’s retail brands include RaceTrac and RaceWay retail locations, Gulf branded locations, and Potbelly neighborhood sandwich shops. Shetty most recently served as CDO at Equifax, where he led the transformation of the company’s data governance, data quality practices, and cloud-native architecture. Prior to that, he held senior tech roles at Pilot Flying J, McDonald’s, SunTrust (now Truist), and Fifth Third Bank. Shetty holds a BBA from the University of Georgia, and an MBA from Georgia State University J. Mack Robinson College of Business.

Guidehouse taps Ron White as CIO

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Ron White, Guidehouse

Guidehouse

Guidehouse is a global AI-led professional services firm delivering advisory, technology, and managed services to the commercial and government sectors. White’s career spans global CIO roles and business leadership across industries, with a consistent focus on aligning IT strategy with enterprise goals. Most recently he was global CIO at Avanade. White earned a BASc from Miami University.

AmeriLife names Sulabh Srivastava CIO

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Sulabh Srivastava, AmeriLife

AmeriLife

AmeriLife develops, markets, and distributes life and health insurance, annuities, and retirement planning solutions. Srivastava was most recently global CIO of Acrisure. Earlier, at Indiana University Health and University of Michigan Health-Sparrow, he led award-winning digital initiatives, including electronic medical records systems that set industry benchmarks. Srivastava holds a BE from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business.

Tim Farris joins Clancy & Theys Construction Company as CIO

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Tim Farris, Clancy & Theys Construction

Clancy & Theys Construction

Clancy & Theys Construction Company provides construction management, design-build, and general construction services for commercial, industrial, and institutional projects, including new construction and renovation. Farris was most recently senior director, technology leader for RTI International. He holds a BS from UNC at Greensboro, and an MS from the UNC, Chapel Hill.

Ronald McDonald House Charities welcomes Jarrod Bell as CIO

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Jarrod Bell, Ronald McDonald House Charities

Ronald McDonald House Charities

Ronald McDonald House is an independent nonprofit that provides resources, services, and support for families when they have children who are ill or injured. Bell previously served as CTO at Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, where he led the modernization of enterprise systems and oversaw nationwide technology initiatives. He was also CIO at San Francisco Opera, where he implemented tech solutions to support artistic and administrative functions.

Devang Patel joins Devereux as CIO

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Devang Patel, Devereux

Devereux

Devereux is a nonprofit providing services, insight and leadership in the evolving field of behavioral healthcare. Before joining Devereux, Patel served as CITO at Radial bpost group. His career also includes leadership roles at eBay, GSI Commerce, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, and Aetna US Healthcare. Patel holds a BE from the University of Pune and an MS from Penn State Great Valley.

MIB promotes Daniel Gortze to CIO

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Daniel Gortze, MIB

MIB

MIB is the insurance industry’s partner for data, insights, and digital solutions that support underwriting and actuarial decision-making to improve industry efficiencies. Gortze joined MIB in 2020 as CISO. Before that, he was director of information security and IT infrastructure at Cumberland Farms where he was responsible for information security strategy and IT infrastructure operations. Previously, he was senior manager for security and risk consulting at SecureWorks where he led several consulting teams investigating client data breaches and security incidents. He holds a BS from Roger Williams University and an MBA from the Isenberg School of Management at UMass, Amherst.

New CIO appointments, November 2025

New York Life appoints Deepa Soni as CIO

Rohit Kapoor joins Whataburger as CDTTO

A.O. Smith taps Chris Howe as CDIO

Soma Venkat named CITAIO for Cooper Standard

Wella Company welcomes Julia Anderson as CDIO

Anthony Spangenberg joins MSPCA-Angell as CIO

Cengage Group welcomes Ken Grady as CIO

Marc Rubel joins Mirion as CIO

Smith names Mike Mercado CIO

Gregg Cottage promoted to CIO and CISO at NN, Inc.

CFA Institute taps Eliot Pikoulis as CIO

New CIO appointments, October 2025

State Farm names Joe Park as CDIO

Steve Bronson announced as CIO for Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits

Bridge Specialty Group appoints Steve Emmons as CIO

Dawn-Marie Hutchinson joins Reynolds American as CIO

Amway welcomes Ryan Talbott as CTO

Randy Dougherty promoted to CIO for Trellix

Shayne Mehringer joins Redwood Services as CIO

Kratos promotes Brian Shepard to CIO

Ravi Soin named CIO and CISO for Smartsheet

Infoblox appoints Justin Kappers as CIO

Manu Narayan named CIO for GitLab

Boomi appoints Keyur Ajmera as CIO

Eric Skinner promoted to CIO for Citadel Credit Union

CONA Services appoints Francesco Quinterno as CIO

New CIO appointments, September 2025

Bank of America names Hari Gopalkrishnan CTIO

Vishal Talwar appointed CDIO for FedEx

Highmark Health announces Alistair Erskine as CIDO

Steven Dee joins Kohl’s as CTO

AI Fire welcomes Mike Marchetti as CIO

Ted Doering joins Ball Corporation as CIO

SpartanNash names Ed Rybicki as CIO

Tara Long named CIO for FM

Trimble announces Jim Palermo as CIO

Bradley Lontz named CIO for CSAA Insurance Group

EchoStor Technologies welcomes Cale Anjoorian as CIO

Corey Farrell joins Peloton as CIO

AWP Safety appoints Craig Young as CIO

Georgeo Pulikkathara joins iMerit as CIO and CISO

Pathward appoints Charles Ingram as CIOO

Ardent Mills appoints Ryan Kelley as CIO

New CIO appointments, August 2025

Neal Sample joins Best Buy as CDTO

Southern Company names Hans Brown CITO

Tim Langley-Hawthorne named CTO of Love’s Travel Stops

QXO appoints Eric Nelson as CIO

Gaspare LoDuca named CIO for MIT

University of Wisconsin-Madison welcomes Didier Contis as CIO

Matt Keen joins Old National Bancorp as CIO

CHG Healthcare names Theresa O’Leary as CIO

Bill Poirier named CIO at the University of Central Florida

Avalara announces Shahan Parshad as CIO

Rajeev Khanna named CIO for Trucordia

Cottage Health Welcomes Ganesh Persad as CIO

Tara Cook joins Hinshaw & Culbertson as CIO

New CIO appointments, July 2025

BrandSafway appoints JP Saini as CDIO

Valerie Ashbaugh announced as CIO for McDonald’s

Agam Upadhyay joins Vertex Pharmaceuticals as CIO

Vertiv Appoints Mike Giresi as global CIO

Rafael Sanchez joins Bloomin’ Brands as CIO

Lee Health welcomes Chris Akeroyd as CIO

Kassie Rangel named CIO for Liberty Tax

Neurocrine Biosciences appoints Lewis Choi as CIO

Angel Miranda joins Westgate Resorts as CIO

Genesys announces Trevor Schulze as CIO

Jeff Burke joins Unilever Foods North America as CDIO

Suresh Krishnan joins Memorial Health as CIO

Newrez welcomes Brian Woodring as CIO

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