Cloud Sustainability in 2025: The Strategic Imperative for IT Leaders
In my 20+ years delivering IT projects, I’ve seen trends come and go. Some deliver marginal gains. Others change the delivery game entirely. Cloud sustainability is in the second category — and it’s not optional anymore.
For CIOs and CTOs, it’s now a strategic imperative. Ignore it, and you risk higher costs, ESG non-compliance, and losing competitive advantage to organisations who are using the cloud not just to run workloads — but to run them smarter, greener, and leaner.
The Growing Impact of AI Agents in the Workplace and Beyond
AI continues to revolutionise industries, from automating daily tasks to reshaping entire sectors. But how does this impact businesses, employees, and the economy? Let’s delve into the latest developments in AI tools and agents and explore their potential.
When IT Project Management Fails: Lessons from the UK Post Office
When IT initiatives go off track, the fallout can be more than just missed deadlines—it can be catastrophic. A prime example? The UK’s Post Office, where a mismanaged IT programme spiralled into one of the most expensive public sector failures in recent memory.
AI Innovation Watch: OpenAI’s Coding Agent, Emerging AI Norms & Next-Gen Infrastructure
The world of artificial intelligence continues to move at an extraordinary pace. In this roundup, we explore three significant developments: the launch of OpenAI’s new coding agent, a groundbreaking study on AI social behaviours, and OpenAI’s massive infrastructure expansion plans.
The AI Workforce: Preparing for the Future of Work
Welcome back to our latest insights. If you were caught off guard by the recent viral AI-generated “emotional support kangaroo” video, you’re not alone. For many, it marked a significant wake-up call — particularly as AI-generated content continues to improve, surpassing the usual red flags such as blurry hands or scrambled text. It begs the question: how much of this AI-generated content is already slipping under the radar unnoticed?
As cyber threats accelerate in complexity, AI-driven threat intelligence has emerged as a critical line of defence in 2025. With the global threat intelligence market projected to soar to US$26.31 billion by 2032, it’s no surprise that leading organisations are shifting to automated, predictive, and behaviour-based defences.
AI is not only scanning network traffic and system logs in real-time—it’s proactively identifying emerging attack patterns before they occur. The result? Companies using AI to power their threat detection are cutting breach response times by an astonishing 52%, reducing risk while bolstering resilience.
What makes this truly game-changing is AI’s ability to integrate with SOAR platforms and security teams across sectors—automating everything from threat correlation to real-time mitigation. From banking to healthcare to education, AI is monitoring dark web chatter, scanning for malicious domains, and even learning to predict future attacks through behavioural analytics. The cybersecurity conversation is no longer about if AI should be deployed—but how fast it can be implemented to stay ahead of ever-evolving adversaries.
Want to keep your organisation ahead of AI-powered threats? How are you preparing your defences?
AI in cybersecurity isn’t about replacing your analysts — it’s about helping them work faster and smarter with the data you already have. Tools like Elastic’s AI-powered analytics let teams automate routine tasks, enrich investigations, and generate insights that are tailored to their unique environment.
The key to real value? Connecting your internal data so AI can act with true business context.
Statistic: Over US$25 million was lost by a finance worker in a single deepfake scam — where fraudsters used AI to impersonate a company CFO during a video call.
Insight: AI isn’t just powering innovation — it’s arming both sides of the cybersecurity battle. While attackers exploit deepfakes, phishing automation, and data poisoning, many IT teams are still relying on outdated tools and incomplete defences.
This isn’t the time for passive defence. As Mary Shacklett notes, the future of cybersecurity requires IT to fight AI with AI — combining threat hunting, zero-trust policies, and real-time anomaly detection.
If your strategy hasn’t been updated for the AI age, you’re already behind.
How IT Project Managers Are Modernising Medical Credentialing with Big Data
Behind every safe medical procedure is a critical but often overlooked process: medical credentialing. It’s the system that ensures a healthcare professional—whether a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist—is properly vetted, certified, and licensed to deliver care. While it may have once been an administrative formality, the rising complexity of healthcare delivery has put credentialing under the spotlight.
6 Key Trends Reshaping ITSM and ITOps in 2025 — What IT Leaders Need to Know
As an IT consultant immersed in the fast-paced world of IT service management (ITSM) and IT operations (ITOps), I’ve seen firsthand how “slow and steady” doesn’t always mean stagnant. While these disciplines may not make headlines like AI or blockchain, subtle undercurrents are driving substantial changes in how IT teams work, deliver value, and adapt to new challenges.
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