Ethan Cole is a technology writer and cybersecurity analyst focused on AI, cloud infrastructure, privacy, SaaS platforms, and enterprise technology. With more than a decade of experience covering digital transformation and emerging technologies, he specializes in translating complex technical topics into practical insights for businesses, developers, and decision-makers.
Quantum-safe cryptography has been the topic of conference keynotes for a decade, and through most of that decade the practical advice for…
AI governance has produced more committees than results. The pattern is familiar by now. A company stands up an AI governance committee,…
Procurement software is one of those categories where the vendor pitches sound nearly identical and the actual buyer experience is wildly different…
SaaS sprawl has been a complaint for as long as there has been SaaS, and most of the responses have failed to…
SolarWinds is now five years in the rear view mirror, which is long enough to ask honestly whether the industry's response to…
ERP modernization programs fail in remarkably consistent ways. The technology changes, the vendors change, the consultancies change, the buzzwords change, and the…
FinOps as a function has been around long enough that most mid-size and larger companies have a named team. The function works…
The RPA story was supposed to be about freeing humans from repetitive work. The actual story of the last decade has been…
One of the more useful shifts in the AI conversation through 2025 was the recognition that model size is not the only…
For the first several years after GDPR went into effect, the gap between the regulation as written and the regulation as enforced…