Posts Tagged 'Techleaders'

Combat the Rising 'Software Tax': 3 Ways IT Leaders Can Contain Unplanned Vendor Costs

October 24, 2026

A recent survey of over 2,000 IT leaders uncovered a stark reality: organizations face a forced "software tax" of 28% just to keep pace with OEM application updates. For enterprise​s, this equates to nearly $13 million in mandatory spending on upgrades pushed by IT providers. Worse yet, the problem is accelerating. As rapid advancements in AI drive more frequent vendor release cycles, we at Inflectra predict this hidden tax will only continue to climb.

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Five Key Takeaways from the Sydney DevOps Engineering Summit

August 20, 2026

AI Is Making Development Faster. But Is It Helping Us Ship Faster?

Yesterday, we spent the day with 180 engineering and technology leaders at the Sydney Engineering & DevOps Summit discussing one of the biggest questions facing software teams today:

As AI accelerates software development, how do we maintain the quality, control, and trust required to deploy it at enterprise scale?

Across roundtables and panel discussions, one thing became clear: AI has removed some of the traditional bottlenecks in software development, only to expose new ones.

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