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. Hyoun Has a Very Special Announcement
2. Google Gets Another Chance at the Enterprise
3. Google Opens Up Its Global Network
4. Google Takes on Microsoft with Unified Security
5. Google Supports Multi-Step AI Workflow Automation
6. Google's Agent2Agent Forges Agent Interop Alliance
7. Elena Cross Puts the S in Model Context Protocol
8. AI Breaks Human Assumptions of Win-Win Scenarios
9. How to Budget IT in Ongoing Tariff Uncertainty
10. Can You Dodge Tariff Impacts on IT Hardware?
11. DOGE Cuts Accenture and Deloitte DoD Spend

Sources:

Hyoun Has a Very Special Announcement

Hyoun’s Announcement https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-change-hyoun-park-3ravc

Google Gets Another Chance at the Enterprise

Runtime News: https://www.runtime.news/google-clouds-second-chance-at-the-enterprise/

Google Opens Up Its Global Network

Google Cloud: https://tinyurl.com/GCPCloudWAN

Google Takes on Microsoft with Unified Security

Google Cloud: https://tinyurl.com/GCPUnifiedSec

Google Supports Multi-Step AI Workflow Automation

9 to 5 Google: https://9to5google.com/2025/04/09/google-workspace-flows/

Google's Agent2Agent Forges Agent Interop Alliance

Google Developers: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/

Elena Cross Puts the S in Model Context Protocol

Elena Cross: https://elenacross7.medium.com/%EF%B8%8F-the-s-in-mcp-stands-for-security-91407b33ed6b

AI Breaks Human Assumptions of Win-Win Scenarios

Wired: https://link.wired.com/public/39358709

How to Budget IT in Ongoing Tariff Uncertainty

David Politis on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/PolitisITBudget

Can You Dodge Tariff Impacts on IT Hardware?

CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iphone-price-increase-china-tariffs/\#

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/trump-tariffs-uncertainty-cio-enterprise-it-spend/745074/

DOGE Cuts Accenture and Deloitte DoD Spend

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/11/defense_department_cancels_contracts/

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights