“As AI becomes integral to business strategy, CIOs are being forced to reconsider how and where it’s optimal to deploy compute resources. The need for low latency, cost efficiency, and compliance in AI applications is driving a rapid shift toward hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. For IT leaders, this means 2025 will be a pivotal year for a comprehensive realignment of their infrastructure with the realities of the AI era.”
Enterprise IT in 2025 is entering a period of profound reinvention as CIOs push AI beyond isolated functions, wrestle with the immature foundations of agentic AI, and escalate efforts to counter suddenly looming post-quantum threats. Futurum’s Q2 2025 CIO Insights survey reveals 89% of IT leaders driving AI for strategic transformation, 80% elevating quantum-resilient security to board-level priority, and 71% rethinking optimal cloud environments under intensifying AI workload pressures.
Three primary reasons are driving this change.
Dion Hinchcliffe is a distinguished thought leader, IT expert, and enterprise architect, celebrated for his strategic advisory with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies. With over 25 years of experience, Dion works with the leadership teams of top enterprises, as well as leading tech companies, in bridging the gap between business and technology, focusing on enterprise AI, IT management, cloud computing, and digital business. He is a sought-after keynote speaker, industry analyst, and author, known for his insightful and in-depth contributions to digital strategy, IT topics, and digital transformation. Dion’s influence is particularly notable in the CIO community, where he engages actively with CIO roundtables and has been ranked numerous times as one of the top global influencers of Chief Information Officers. He also serves as an executive fellow at the SDA Bocconi Center for Digital Strategies.
Walmart: This year, AI tinkering ‘becomes transformation’
After two years of experiments, the company is going into high gear around putting AI “out front” in both the digital and ...in-store experiences.
Walmart: This year, AI tinkering ‘becomes transformation’
A year from now, customers will look back and realize just how much has changed about the shopping experience, Walmart’s Daniel Danker predicts.
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Updated my list of top AI sovereignty players.
CIOs have more options for jurisdictional control, compliance, w/ regulated AI:
- @AWSCloud - European Sovereign Cloud
- @Microsoft - Cloud for ...Sovereignty
- @Oracle - EU Sovereign Cloud
- @Google - Sovereign Solutions
- @IBM *NEW*
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#CIOChat Q4: Endgame: AI everywhere means GPU economics everywhere: On-prem clusters, regional GPU clouds, edge inference, and vendor-hosted models each with radically different cost and risk ...profiles. What’s your next-gen GPU portfolio strategy and why?
#CIOChat Q3: CIOs tell us GPU operating models now a strategic architecture decision.
How are you designing for cost control + sovereignty as GPU demand grows across LLMs, agents, RAG, and ...streaming inference?
#CIOChat Q2: New GPU clouds (CoreWeave, Lambda Cloud, etc.) promise cheaper inference, better scheduling, and more than hyperscalers. But raise questions around sovereignty, lifecycle maturity, and ...IP safety. Are you using any of these platforms, and what’s your evaluation?
#CIOChat Q1: Inference is now the real cost center of AI, not training. Many CIOs say spend is shifting to continuous inference, including guardrails, vector search, and routing. Where are you seeing... inference costs explode, and what keeps them predictable?
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#CIOChat: Welcome to today’s chat. Topic: GPU Economics
AI is stress-testing the CIO operating model.
Today at 1:30 pm ET at Predict 2026, @dhinchcliffe explains why cloud, security, and IT operations must evolve toward autonomous, agent-driven systems....
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IBM pushes sovereign computing with a software stack that works across cloud platforms
I shared my thoughts with @NetworkWorld on IBM’s interesting new approach to autonomy-based cloud.
IBM pushes sovereign computing with a software stack that works across cloud platforms
By decoupling sovereignty from dedicated data center regions, IBM's Sovereign Core aims to help CIOs meet rising reg...
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