For leaders Technology decisions, in business terms.
The decisions your board will ask about, and a quick check of where your technology stands.
Leadership Brief · Board questions · Executive check · Technology spend · Operations · Delivery · Security · Events
Leadership Brief
Each month: the technology, security and pricing news that affects your budget or risk, in a three-minute read.
Questions your board should be asking
Use these as conversation starters with your technology team or advisers.
Executive tech-health check
Ten questions, about five minutes. You get a score out of 20 and steps to fix each gap. Your answers stay in your browser unless you choose to send a project request.
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Technology spend
Cloud, software subscriptions and AI have turned technology into a variable cost. Where workloads run, in the cloud, on-premises or both, is now a spending decision as much as a technical one.
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FinOps: getting control of technology spend
Cloud, SaaS and AI have made technology a variable cost. What FinOps is, who owns it, and a 5-minute check of where you stand.
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Cloud, on-premises or both: the hybrid decision
Why organizations moved to the cloud, why some are bringing workloads back, how it plays out industry by industry, and what hybrid means for monitoring and operations tools.
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VMware after Broadcom: the renewal decision
What changed in VMware licensing, what analysts expect, the options on the table and the questions to ask before you renew.
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AI infrastructure: what it means for your budget
AI spending is forecast at $2.67 trillion in 2026. What that does to cloud bills, hardware prices and facilities, and six questions to ask before buying.
Already know where you stand? Take the 5-minute FinOps check.
Operations and reliability
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Reactive or proactive?
What your MTTx says about the return on your monitoring tools, and the three numbers to ask for every month.
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Were we not monitoring for that?
The question every outage review ends with, what the honest answer usually is, and five questions to ask before the next one.
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Does the CMDB still matter when software ships every day?
What to keep in the CMDB, where change approval lives now, and why error budgets work like market circuit breakers.
Delivery and funding
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Agile and the IT budget
Fund teams, not projects; forecast from real throughput; and what to ask for instead of a Gantt chart.
Security and risk
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The certificate deadline: vendors are racing it. Are you?
Five decisions leadership has to make before March 2027.
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