Maria Korolov

Contributing writer

Maria Korolov is an award-winning technology journalist with over 20 years of experience covering enterprise technology, mostly for Foundry publications -- CIO, CSO, Network World, Computerworld, PCWorld, and others. She is a speaker, a sci-fi author and magazine editor, and the host of a YouTube channel. She ran a business news bureau in Asia for five years and reported for the Chicago Tribune, Reuters, UPI, the Associated Press and The Hollywood Reporter. In the 1990s, she was a war correspondent in the former Soviet Union and reported from a dozen war zones, including Chechnya and Afghanistan.

Maria won 2025 AZBEE awards for her coverage of Broadcom VMware and Quantum Computing.

Articles by Maria Korolov

What CIOs need to know about measuring AI value

Even though many companies report positive ROI from gen AI, IT leaders don't always know how to actually measure it, and the vast majority of AI projects fail. So what's the real story, and what metrics are important to gauge AI success?

By Maria Korolov

Aug 6, 2025 9 mins

CIO Generative AI ICT Partners

Top 9 generative AI use cases for business

By Grant Gross and Maria Korolov

Jun 26, 2025 13 mins

7 ways synthetic data creates business value

By Maria Korolov

Jun 25, 2025 11 mins

Data Quality Generative AI IT Strategy

Agentic AI: 9 promising use cases for business

Organizations are deploying the ever-advancing technology to assist with software programming, create advanced business intelligence, and automate customer support and HR functions.

By Grant Gross and Maria Korolov

Jun 19, 2025 13 mins

Business Intelligence IT Strategy Threat and Vulnerability Management

Digital twins combine with AI to help manage complex systems

Digital twins have historically been used to better understand the workings of computer chips, factory floors, or complex machines like jet engines. But the turbo boost they get when combined with AI gives organizations exponentially more power.

By Maria Korolov

Jun 11, 2025 12 mins

Data Quality Generative AI IT Strategy

Network bloat: AI-driven data movements cause cloud overspend

A significant percentage of enterprise cloud network spending is wasted, due to preventable mistakes and manual processes, and the recent spike in AI deployments is adding to the problem.

By Maria Korolov

May 26, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing

AI data centers drive engineers rush to master new skills

The explosive growth of AI infrastructure is forcing data center engineers to rapidly master new technical skills as facilities struggle to find staff.

By Maria Korolov

May 5, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Data Center IT Skills

Agents are here — but can you see what they’re doing?

Agentic AI is poised to transform business processes at a scale and pace never seen before. But are enterprises prepared to deal with the risks agentic systems pose?

By Maria Korolov

Apr 23, 2025 10 mins

CIO Data Quality Generative AI

What’s a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

Data engineers work for enterprises in various industries to help them manage and store the data they need to operate, and, increasingly, to support their AI initiatives.

By Thor Olavsrud, Sarah White and Maria Korolov

Apr 7, 2025 12 mins

Data Mining Data Science Staff Management

Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

It may have faded into obscurity but by an order of magnitude, the outage last July caused by the cybersecurity vendor was the costliest in IT history. What have we learned to prevent something similar from happening again?

By Maria Korolov

Apr 2, 2025 12 mins

Cloud Security Data and Information Security Network Security

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What CIOs can do when AI boosts performance but kills motivation

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Weights & Biases: What it really takes to successfully adopt generative AI

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RelationalAI transforms enterprise data in Snowflake via GenAI, knowledge graphs

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CIO Leadership Live

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