Sponsor's Content AI Reworks IT: Why CIOs Are Extending AI to IT Operations

The following industry perspective explains how AI can empower the IT workforce, relieve stress, and improve results today. A future-looking perspective from an academic researcher discusses AI advances that may one day transform one of IT's biggest headaches: cybersecurity defenses. Technology has become so deeply entwined in our personal and work lives that we have come to expect omnipresence and availability from a huge breadth of information and services. No one feels the pressure of this demand more than enterprise IT professionals, who must keep up with constantly evolving digital technologies. As much as 25% to 30% of the typical IT environment changes annually; companies update and upgrade systems, decommission others, apply software patches, move to new platforms, add entirely new technologies, and certify new applications.