IT Management

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IT Staffing & Careers

2026 tech company layoffs 2026 tech company layoffs

Macroeconomic trends, increased use of AI and geopolitical uncertainty are among the drivers of layoffs at tech companies this year. Follow InformationWeek's tracker for how the tech job environment is faring in 2026.

byKelsey Ziser,Senior Editor

Sep 25, 2026

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19 Min Read

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AI governance lags behind deployment. CIOs need to fix that AI governance lags behind deployment. CIOs need to fix that

bySamuel Greengard

Sep 25, 2026

6 Min Read

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IT Staffing & Careers

Now open: InformationWeek’s annual IT salary survey Now open: InformationWeek’s annual IT salary survey

byNicole Laskowski

Sep 24, 2026

1 Min Read

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What IT leaders are reading: Top books and podcasts What IT leaders are reading: Top books and podcasts

Sep 23, 2026

5 Min Read

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Machine Learning & AI

AI models everywhere: They matter less than you think AI models everywhere: They matter less than you think

byJeff McMillan

Sep 11, 2026

4 Min Read

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Incident Response

When is a business really recovered from a cyberattack?When is a business really recovered from a cyberattack?

byMadeleine Streets

Sep 10, 2026

6 Min Read

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IT Infrastructure

Why observability has become essential to the CIO's job

Why observability has become essential to the CIO's job

byCarrie Pallardy,Contributing Reporter

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The week of Aug. 24-28: What happened, what matters, what's next

The week of Aug. 24-28: What happened, what matters, what's next

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Cloud Computing

Why CIOs are moving their workloads back on-prem

Why CIOs are moving their workloads back on-prem

byJohn Edwards,Technology Journalist & Author

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Machine Learning & AI

Nvidia's earnings show why CIOs need to think beyond the GPU

Nvidia's earnings show why CIOs need to think beyond the GPU

byMadeleine Streets,Senior Editor

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Machine Learning & AI

Why IT leaders should unpack AI before they buy

Why IT leaders should unpack AI before they buy

byLeon Adato,Cribl

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IT Staffing & Careers

The AI boomerang: Why rehiring is harder than letting go

The AI boomerang: Why rehiring is harder than letting go

byPam Baker,Contributing Writer

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10 women who fundamentally changed enterprise computing

10 women who fundamentally changed enterprise computing

byGeorge Lawton,Contributing Writer

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IT Staffing & Careers

CIOs, stop training the room to see you as the IT person

CIOs, stop training the room to see you as the IT person

byBrian Ledbetter,Ledbetter Leadership

The White House

Machine Learning & AI

The week of Aug. 3-7: What happened, what matters, what's next

The week of Aug. 3-7: What happened, what matters, what's next

byMadeleine Streets,Senior Editor

Aaron Harris, CTO, Sage

InformationWeek Podcast: Coping when internal metrics go off course

InformationWeek Podcast: Coping when internal metrics go off course

byJoao-Pierre S. Ruth,Senior Editor

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Sustainable data centers require more than reducing energy costs

Sustainable data centers require more than reducing energy costs

byFrank Warren,Park Place Technologies

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IT Infrastructure

Networks that never go down: Resilience as a discipline

Networks that never go down: Resilience as a discipline

byAsit Tandon,Telesat

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My AI governance framework is a blast radius: Advice from a CEO

My AI governance framework is a blast radius: Advice from a CEO

byNicolai Klemke,Neural Frames

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The Week of July 6–10: What happened, what matters, what's next

The Week of July 6–10: What happened, what matters, what's next

byMadeleine Streets,Senior Editor

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Machine Learning & AI

The hidden risk in scaling AI: Decision drift

The hidden risk in scaling AI: Decision drift

byMeenal Iyer,SurveyMonkey

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Machine Learning & AI

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI, but these CIOs aren't chasing the leaderboard

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI, but these CIOs aren't chasing the leaderboard

byStephanie Overby,Contributing Writer

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Why AI-built tools are threatening SaaS vendor renewals

Why AI-built tools are threatening SaaS vendor renewals

byAashis Luitel,N-able Technologies

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Risk Management

Cyber risk falls flat without business translation

Cyber risk falls flat without business translation

byJeff Ladner,Onspring

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IT Staffing & Careers

Bridging the gap between leadership's AI enthusiasm and employee pushback

Bridging the gap between leadership's AI enthusiasm and employee pushback

byCarrie Pallardy,Contributing Reporter

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Digital Transformation

3 tips for overcoming resistance to IT implementations

3 tips for overcoming resistance to IT implementations

byPal Narayanan,Kenco

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IT Staffing & Careers

The leadership desert: The unspoken enterprise IT talent problem

The leadership desert: The unspoken enterprise IT talent problem

byJohn Edwards,Technology Journalist & Author

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Machine Learning & AI

Drive agentic AI outcomes with zero-based process redesign

Drive agentic AI outcomes with zero-based process redesign

byJan-Malte Prädel,Capgemini Invent

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IT Infrastructure

Can AI agents solve monitoring and scaling crises on the network?

Can AI agents solve monitoring and scaling crises on the network?

byMary E. Shacklett,President, Transworld Data

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Your LMS is already obsolete: How agentic AI changes enterprise learning

Your LMS is already obsolete: How agentic AI changes enterprise learning

byGuy Bourgault,Concentrix

An IT executive rips a legal contract over a desk.

Tips for successfully exiting AI vendor contracts

Tips for successfully exiting AI vendor contracts

byPam Baker,Contributing Writer

Humans matter, AI still in flux and more lessons from Gartner summit

Humans matter, AI still in flux and more lessons from Gartner summit

byMadeleine Streets,Senior Editor

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Machine Learning & AI

Time for an AI exit strategy: How CIOs are cutting AI waste

Time for an AI exit strategy: How CIOs are cutting AI waste

byPam Baker,Contributing Writer

InformationWeek Podcast: How to set guardrails vs. overreliance on AI

InformationWeek Podcast: How to set guardrails vs. overreliance on AI

byJoao-Pierre S. Ruth,Senior Editor

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Risk Management

How cyber-risk can fall flat in the boardroom

How cyber-risk can fall flat in the boardroom

byNichole Windholz,Onspring