In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. How US Tariffs Affect the CIO Office
2. Meta Launches Llama 4’s Herd of Models
3. IBM Introduces z17 Mainframe for AI Demands
4. Zoom Tasks Take On AI-Based Task Completion
5. CloudBolt Buys StormForge, Combines K8s + FinOps
6. WPP Acquires Data Collaboration Firm Infosum
7. PagerDuty Finds High ROI Expectations for Gen AI

Sources:

How US Tariffs Affect the CIO Office

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/03/apple-loses-250b-market-value-as-tariffs-tank-tech-stocks/

Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tariffs-penguins/

Meta Launches Llama 4’s Herd of Models

Meta: https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/06/metas-benchmarks-for-its-new-ai-models-are-a-bit-misleading/

IBM Introduces z17 Mainframe for AI Demands

IBM: https://newsroom.ibm.com/z17

Zoom Tasks Take On AI-Based Task Completion

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/zoom-tasks-agentic-AI/744655/

CloudBolt Buys StormForge, Combines K8s + FinOps

Press Release: https://tinyurl.com/CloudBoltStormForge

StormForge: https://stormforge.io/blog/reflecting-on-an-incredible-week-carbon-relay-receives-63m-investment-from-insight-partners/

CloudBolt: https://www.cloudbolt.io/company/news/cloudbolt-announces-35-million-in-series-b-funding-led-by-insight-partners/

Solo Press Release: https://tinyurl.com/SoloIOMCP

WPP Acquires Data Collaboration Firm Infosum

WPP: https://www.wpp.com/en-us/news/2025/04/wpp-acquires-infosum-in-major-investment-in-its-ai-driven-data-offer

Infosum’s last funding round in 2021: https://tinyurl.com/Infosum65M

PagerDuty Finds High ROI Expectations for Gen AI

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/enterprise-agentic-AI-adoption-ROI-expectations-PagerDuty/744265/

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights