Corvx research
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Analysis of the systems organizations build, buy and operate: AI in production, payments, software modernization and cloud infrastructure. Every figure is sourced.
Cloud & infrastructure
Windows Server 2016 leaves support in January. There is time to triage, not to migrate
Extended support for Windows Server 2016 ends on 12 January 2027. With about ten weeks left, the realistic goal is to decide, server by server, what moves, what is retired and what needs paid security updates.
Note: Dates are the last day of each support phase, Pacific Time.
Source: Microsoft Lifecycle1–4.
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Running existing systems takes a growing share of federal IT spending
The share of federal IT spending on operations and maintenance rose from 69 to about 80 percent. The constraint is not ambition but risk.
Keeping old systems running consumes most of the IT budgetArchive
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Cloud & infrastructure
Windows Server 2016 leaves support in January. There is time to triage, not to migrate
Security updates for Windows Server 2016 stop on 12 January 2027. The first task is an inventory, not a migration.
Cloud & infrastructure
Cloud waste is rising again, and AI workloads are the reason given
Public cloud spending was forecast to pass $720 billion in 2025. Respondents estimate that close to a third of infrastructure spend delivers no value.
Software modernization
Keeping old systems running consumes most of the IT budget
The share of federal IT spending on operations and maintenance rose from 69 to about 80 percent. The constraint is not ambition but risk.
Payments
ISO 20022 gave payments richer data. Reconciliation still has to use it
Structured payment data is now the norm on the main US and cross-border rails. Most reconciliation processes still discard it before matching.
AI & automation
Token prices fell 280-fold. The cost of the workflow did not
Inference is now cheap enough to ignore in most business cases. Human review of the model’s output is not.
AI & automation
Most AI pilots stall after the demo, not before it
Companies abandoning most of their AI initiatives rose from 17 to 42 percent in a year. The causes are operational, not algorithmic.
Methodology
Every figure in Corvx Insights comes from a named public source, listed and linked in the article’s references. Charts are redrawn from the original data. Where we model numbers ourselves, the chart says so and states its assumptions. Articles are reviewed when their sources publish new data.
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