AI Governance Reaches an Inflection Point
A new survey of 1,250 data governance executives commissioned by OneTrust offers a detailed snapshot of how organizations are grappling with the…
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Building a Data-First Culture
Technology is not what powers a data-first culture, but people, operating models, and disciplined delivery. Most organizations already possess more…
The Next Frontier in Enterprise IT: Agentic AI That Takes Responsibility
Despite years of experimentation, most organizations agree: Artificial intelligence hasn’t remade the enterprise or shattered ROI goals — yet. In fact, McKinsey found that only about 1%…
Through the Looking Glass: Mahler, Creativity, and AI-Generated Music
It’s been just a few months since I checked off one of the top items on my bucket list. This…
Legal Issues for Data Professionals: Protecting Against AI Risks in NDAs
This column explores how to protect against the risks of AI in legal confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). When companies…
Automated Enterprise Storage for Agentic AI
Agentic AI knows what it wants when it comes to enterprise storage. These autonomous, AI-driven agents can make their own…
Best Practices for Managing AI Agents in Production
AI agents can do amazing things to make the lives of IT professionals easier. But, they also have the potential to…
Compliance as a Catalyst for Innovation
Technology often moves faster than the rules meant to govern it. Regulators, tasked with protecting data they don’t always fully…
Data Is Risky Business: The Risk of AI Atrophy
Recently, I’ve been digging into what the future of work and the workforce might be in a post-GenAI world. Right…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Evolution of Metrics in a Data-Centric Enterprise (Part 1)
I’ve written elsewhere about the value of grounding your metrics program in semantics.1 This article goes well beyond that. We…