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In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and guest Ken “kengon” Gonzalez critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:
Sources:
ServiceNow Sees Initial CRM Success
CXToday coverage by Charlie Mitchell: https://www.cxtoday.com/crm/servicenow-secures-9-crm-megadeals-reiterates-goal-to-lead-the-market/
Dataiku Supports Agent Create and Control
Dataiku Press Release: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/04/24/3067473/0/en/Dataiku-Brings-AI-Agent-Creation-and-Control-to-The-Universal-AI-Platform.html
Banks Still Investing in Digital Transformation
CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/bank-tech-cloud-data-cyber-generative-ai-broadridge/745931/
Verizon Releases 2025 Data Breach Incident Report
Verizon: https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/#top-takeaways
Amazon Cuts AI CapEx Commitments
The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/22/aws_datacenter_leases/
Are Government Contracts Still Blue Chip Revenue?
Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-23/ibm-posts-sales-topping-estimates-says-doge-hit-15-contracts
Please, ChatGPT? Thanks a Million!
Sam Altman on X: https://x.com/sama/status/1912646035979239430
Microsoft's Kurtis Beavers weighs in: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/why-using-a-polite-tone-with-ai-matters
51% of GenZ Thinks College Degree A Waste
Indeed: https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/news/college-degree-value-generational-divide
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and guest Ken “kengon” Gonzalez critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:
Sources:
Tableau Next for the Data Analyst’s Future
Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/tableau-next-announcement/
Intel Sells Altera as Lip-Bu Tan Gets Started
Intel Press Release: https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/intel-partner-deal-news-april2025
Altera declared standalone business: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/10/03/intel-plans-to-ipo-programmable-chip-unit-within-three-years.html
Intel’s 2015 purchase of Altera https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/333/intel-to-acquire-altera
Amazon Wants Windows Server Business
The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/aws_microsoft_license_harms/
NVIDIA Commits $500 Billion to US Manufacturing
CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/nvidia-domestic-ai-infrastructure-chip-manufacturing-tariffs/745441/
Project Stargate: https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/
Will AI Enable a 24/7 Orchestration Economy?
WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-is-enabling-an-always-on-economy-companies-need-to-pick-up-the-pace-15ba93da
DoiT Launches CloudFlow to Automate FinOps
DoiT: https://www.doit.com/news/doit-launches-cloudflow/
The Dangers of Whistleblowing DOGE
Whistleblower Aid: https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf
Can You Outrun a Robot?
WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/tech/man-versus-machine-as-china-shows-off-humanoid-robots-in-half-marathon-75d7e766
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:
Sources:
Hyoun Has a Very Special Announcement
Hyoun’s Announcement https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-change-hyoun-park-3ravc
Google Gets Another Chance at the Enterprise
Runtime News: https://www.runtime.news/google-clouds-second-chance-at-the-enterprise/
Google Opens Up Its Global Network
Google Cloud: https://tinyurl.com/GCPCloudWAN
Google Takes on Microsoft with Unified Security
Google Cloud: https://tinyurl.com/GCPUnifiedSec
Google Supports Multi-Step AI Workflow Automation
9 to 5 Google: https://9to5google.com/2025/04/09/google-workspace-flows/
Google's Agent2Agent Forges Agent Interop Alliance
Google Developers: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/
Elena Cross Puts the S in Model Context Protocol
Elena Cross: https://elenacross7.medium.com/%EF%B8%8F-the-s-in-mcp-stands-for-security-91407b33ed6b
AI Breaks Human Assumptions of Win-Win Scenarios
Wired: https://link.wired.com/public/39358709
How to Budget IT in Ongoing Tariff Uncertainty
David Politis on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/PolitisITBudget
Can You Dodge Tariff Impacts on IT Hardware?
CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iphone-price-increase-china-tariffs/\#
CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/trump-tariffs-uncertainty-cio-enterprise-it-spend/745074/
DOGE Cuts Accenture and Deloitte DoD Spend
The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/11/defense_department_cancels_contracts/
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:
Sources:
How US Tariffs Affect the CIO Office
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/03/apple-loses-250b-market-value-as-tariffs-tank-tech-stocks/
Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tariffs-penguins/
Meta Launches Llama 4’s Herd of Models
Meta: https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/06/metas-benchmarks-for-its-new-ai-models-are-a-bit-misleading/
IBM Introduces z17 Mainframe for AI Demands
IBM: https://newsroom.ibm.com/z17
Zoom Tasks Take On AI-Based Task Completion
CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/zoom-tasks-agentic-AI/744655/
CloudBolt Buys StormForge, Combines K8s + FinOps
Press Release: https://tinyurl.com/CloudBoltStormForge
StormForge: https://stormforge.io/blog/reflecting-on-an-incredible-week-carbon-relay-receives-63m-investment-from-insight-partners/
CloudBolt: https://www.cloudbolt.io/company/news/cloudbolt-announces-35-million-in-series-b-funding-led-by-insight-partners/
Solo Press Release: https://tinyurl.com/SoloIOMCP
WPP Acquires Data Collaboration Firm Infosum
WPP: https://www.wpp.com/en-us/news/2025/04/wpp-acquires-infosum-in-major-investment-in-its-ai-driven-data-offer
Infosum’s last funding round in 2021: https://tinyurl.com/Infosum65M
PagerDuty Finds High ROI Expectations for Gen AI
CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/enterprise-agentic-AI-adoption-ROI-expectations-PagerDuty/744265/
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:
Sources:
Databricks and Anthropic Agentify Claude for the Enterprise
Databricks: https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-and-anthropic-sign-landmark-deal-bring-claude-models
Workato Acquires DeepConverse to Strengthen Agentic Support
BusinessWire: https://tinyurl.com/WorkatoDeepCongress
N8n Raises 60 Million to Open Up AI Automation
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/24/fair-code-pioneer-n8n-raises-60m-for-ai-powered-workflow-automation/
Symphony AI Partners with Microsoft to Automate Industrial Environments
Big Data Wire: https://www.bigdatawire.com/this-just-in/symphonyai-expands-industrial-ai-to-the-edge-with-microsoft-azure-iot-operations/
Red Hat AI Enhances Model Testing and Governance Capabilities
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-boosts-enterprise-ai-across-hybrid-cloud-red-hat-ai
US House Orders a SAMOSA to Take On Software Costs
The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/28/congress_software_licensing/
Virginia Vetoes an AI Bill: Repercussions for Your AI?
CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/Virginia-AI-bill-veto-HB2094-Youngkin-policy-regulation/743518/
OpenAI Adopts Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol for Data Connection
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/26/openai-adopts-rival-anthropics-standard-for-connecting-ai-models-to-data/
CIOs Start to Cut GenAI Budgets
CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/generative-ai-software-device-spending-soars-gartner/743888/
OpenAI Goes Viral Mimicking Studio Ghibli
Yahoo: https://www.yahoo.com/news/openais-ghibli-frenzy-took-dark-122253521.html
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:
Sources:
NVIDIA Strikes an Agentic Pose with Llama Nemotron
NVIDIA Press Release: https://tinyurl.com/NVIDIALlama2
CIO Dive’s Lindsey Wilkinson: https://tinyurl.com/NVIDIALlamaNemotron
NVIDIA Launches a Laser Show with Photonics Switches
NVIDIA: https://tinyurl.com/NVIDIAPhotonics
Optics.org: https://optics.org/news/16/3/26
NVIDIA, Google, and Disney Take on Reality with Physical AI
NVIDIA: https://tinyurl.com/NVIDIAPhysAI
NVIDIA Open Sourcing CuOPT
NVIDIA: https://tinyurl.com/NVIDIAcuOPT
Adobe Summit and How Adobe Can Regain its AI Mojo
Adobe on Agents: https://tinyurl.com/AdobeAgents
Adobe on Gen AI:
https://tinyurl.com/AdobeFireflyGenAI
CIO: https://tinyurl.com/AdobeAgentic
Stop it. Operational Efficiency is Not Innovation.
CIO.com, Michael Bertha: https://www.cio.com/article/3847331/operational-efficiency-is-not-transformation.html
Research Says Teamwork and AI Make the Dream Work Even Better
One Useful Thing - Ethan Mollick: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-cybernetic-teammate
We Needed an Executive Order on IT Procurement?
White House Executive Order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/eliminating-waste-and-saving-taxpayer-dollars-by-consolidating-procurement/
The Register’s Brandon Vigliarolo: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/21/trump_orders_it_contracts_consolidated/
SAP Predicts Data Entry Will Disappear By 2027
CIO’s Ji-Hyun Lee: https://www.cio.com/article/3850705/sap-ceo-christian-klein-ai-transformation-in-korean-enterprises-will-be-driven-by-business-data-cloud-and-jules.html
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:
Sources:
Lip Bu-Tan Takes Over Intel with a New Cadence
Yahoo Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-found-someone-brave-enough-000825480.html
The Next Platform https://tinyurl.com/LipBuTanIntel
ServiceNow Releases Yokohama for the Agentic Era
ServiceNow: https://www.servicenow.com/company/media/press-room/platform-yokohama-release.html
Robert Herjavec Smells Blood in the Hybrid Cloud
WSJ: https://tinyurl.com/HerjavecZetaris
Snowflake Ventures Buys Into Making Data Easier to Use
TechCrunch: https://tinyurl.com/SnowflakeOmni
Anomalo: https://tinyurl.com/SnowflakeAnomalo
IBM, Intel, Cisco Team Up for New Data Governance Standards
Oasis Open: https://www.oasis-open.org/2025/03/06/oasis-to-advance-data-provenance-standards/
Can Cisco, LangChain, and Galileo Bring AGNTCY to Agents?
VentureBeat: https://tinyurl.com/AGNTCY
Can AI Project Failure Be a Good Sign?
CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/AI-project-fail-data-SPGlobal/742590/
Is 80% Good Enough for AI in Production?
Runtime News: https://www.runtime.news/learning-to-live-with-good-enough-ai/
Creatio Leads the Way for CRM LakeHouses
VentureBeat: https://tinyurl.com/CreatioAgent
Also VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/is-googles-notebooklm-a-secret-crm-killer/
Rex Woodbury Starts Daybreak Ventures
Yahoo Finance: https://tinyurl.com/DaybreakFirstFund
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:
Sources:
Salesforce Announces Agentforce 2dx
Salesforce: https://tinyurl.com/SFAF2dx
Is Salesforce Going Into ITSM?
Cloudwars.com: https://tinyurl.com/SFITSM
ServiceNow Acquiring Moveworks for Agentic AI
MSN.com: https://tinyurl.com/SNMWAA
Manus, a General Agent for the Masses
Manus: https://tinyurl.com/ManusGA
https://manus.im/
IPO-Ready CoreWeave Acquires Weights & Biases
Weights and Biases: https://tinyurl.com/CWWBAcquire
Anthropic Raises 3.5 Billion
Anthropic: https://tinyurl.com/Anthropic35B
Anysphere Raises at $10 Billion Valuation to Push Cursor
TechCrunch: https://tinyurl.com/Cursor10B
LlamaIndex Llaunches LLamaCloud for Unstructured Data Agents
TechCrunch: https://tinyurl.com/LlamaCloud
HPE Among First to Bear Trump Tariffs
The Register: https://tinyurl.com/HPETariffs
No Doubt, IT Unemployment is Rising
CIODive: https://tinyurl.com/ITJobsCIOD
Comptia: https://tinyurl.com/ComptiaITJobs
Ransomware’s New Target: IT Vendors
CIODive: https://tinyurl.com/ITVendorAttacks
Ransomware Down 35% https://tinyurl.com/RansomwareDown35
Agentic Management is a Massive Emerging IT Challenge
CIO.com: https://tinyurl.com/AIAgentMGMT
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
In this podcast episode, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO:
Sources:
Salesforce Hypes AI Success But Agentic Demand Still Lags
Roberto Torres of CIO Dive: https://tinyurl.com/AgentforceQ425
Tom Krazit of Runtime News: https://tinyurl.com/SlowAIDemand
IDC Launches AI-Based TechMatch for Software Selection
CIO.com: https://tinyurl.com/TechMatchLaunch
IBM Plans to Acquire DataStax, Finishes Acquiring HashiCorp
Datastax: https://tinyurl.com/DatastaxAcq
LinkedIn Response: https://tinyurl.com/ProdAIAccel
Take This Open Source Tech and Fork It
The Register: https://tinyurl.com/OSSForkIt
RIP Skype: August 29, 2003 - May 5, 2025
Microsoft: https://tinyurl.com/ByeSkype
Overcommit and Don’t Invest: Microsoft Cuts Data Center Leases
Morningstar: https://tinyurl.com/MSDCLeases2
Wasabi Reports Data Center Costs Out Of Control
Wasabi: https://tinyurl.com/WasabiDCCost
Pew: Only 12% of Workers are Trained on AI
CIO Dive: https://tinyurl.com/AIWorkerTraining
Sergey Brin Wants Google Workers In the Office Five Days a Week
https://tinyurl.com/BrinRTO
DOGE Shuts Down 18F, an Agency That Cut Software Costs
Wired: https://tinyurl.com/Wired18F
Silicon Angle: https://tinyurl.com/SA18F
Mark Cuban’s take: https://tinyurl.com/MarkCuban18F
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
In the audio recording of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:
Sources:
Microsoft Quantum Takes a Majorana Step Forward
Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-just-claimed-a-quantum-breakthrough-a-quantum-physicist-explains-what-it-means/
Alibaba Commits Over $50B to AI, while Apple Goes Further
Morningstar: https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/20250224715/alibaba-to-spend-more-than-52-billion-in-ai-cloud-over-next-three-years
The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/23/asia_tech_news_roundup/
The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/news/618172/apple-500-billion-us-investment-tariffs-trump
Avaya Cuts Off Customers with <200 Seats
Avaya: https://news.avaya.com/axp-evolution-update-partners
Gitlab Being Sued For Providing Believable AI Hype
The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/gitlab_thrice_sued/
T-Mobile Wins NYC 911 Contract with Network Slicing
Fierce Network: https://www.fierce-network.com/wireless/t-mobile-pushes-network-slicing-major-nyc-deal-announced
Ready for a Personalized AI Agent? PIN AI Thinks So
Fast Company: https://www.fastcompany.com/91278338/pin-ai-encrypted-assistant-app-launch-llm
Codeium Raises at Near-$3 Billion Valuation to Assist Coders
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/ai-coding-startup-codeium-in-talks-to-raise-at-an-almost-3b-valuation-sources-say/
Your Most Important Customer May Be AI
Scott Mulligan, MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/19/1112076/your-most-important-customer-may-be-ai/
xAI Plays Fast and Loose with Grok 3 Benchmarks
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/22/did-xai-lie-about-grok-3s-benchmarks/
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
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