The modern CIO is under pressure; company executives are looking to them to deliver AI strategies, while their data centre infrastructure lags behind, cybersecurity always looms, and energy costs are rising. New research by Pure Storage highlights the issues, with the company putting forward a blueprint to ensure success.

With a vivid demonstration of how fragile the world's technology ecosystem is when one cybersecurity vendor makes a configuration mistake, 45Drives president Dr Doug Milburn says it's time for organisations of all sizes to take greater control of their infrastructure, in a move he dubs demicrosoftification.