Are CIO Plans for AI and the Cloud Permanently Joined Together?Are CIO Plans for AI and the Cloud Permanently Joined Together?

Will the development of these resources proceed in tandem at enterprises, or must CIOs evolve these technologies with separate strategies?

Joao-Pierre S. Ruth, Senior Editor

March 24, 2025

As substantial plans to invest in AI and the cloud take shape, do CIOs at enterprises want to develop both resources together to maximize the potential they offer? Is it necessary for them to operate on dual or shared paths of evolution for these technologies to deliver? Should they favor one technology’s use and deployment over the other?

Leadership at enterprises may have hard choices to make on the resources they put toward their technology implementations. What if a CIO is caught in a circumstance where they only have the means -- whether it is a constraint on personnel, time, or money -- to truly invest in cloud or AI, but not both? Where should they put in their energies?

Luiz Domingos, CTO for Mitel; Jon Kuhn, senior vice president of product for Delinea; Anshu Jain, co-founder and CTO with Outmarket AI; and Steve Williams, CISO, NTT DATA, tackled that and other questions in this episode of DOS Won’t Hunt.

Where does the conversation start in the C-suite on how to balance the development and investment into the cloud and AI? What is at stake if CIOs cannot steer the IT strategy to support cloud and AI? How far behind could a company fall if they don’t pursue both technologies vigorously?

Listen to the full episode here.

About the Author

Joao-Pierre S. Ruth

Senior Editor

Joao-Pierre S. Ruth covers tech policy, including ethics, privacy, legislation, and risk; fintech; code strategy; and cloud & edge computing for InformationWeek. He has been a journalist for more than 25 years, reporting on business and technology first in New Jersey, then covering the New York tech startup community, and later as a freelancer for such outlets as TheStreet, Investopedia, and Street Fight.


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