This Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 58

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