Data study ·
84% of CIOs have cancelled an AI project because of legacy systems
Original title, in Spanish: “El 84% de los CIO cancela un proyecto de IA por el legacy”
- Publication
- Revista Byte TI (Spain)
- Author
- Alfonso Casas
- Published on
- 1 October 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
According to a GFT Technologies study carried out by Wakefield Research among 945 CIOs and CTOs in 19 countries, at companies with annual revenue of at least $500 million, outdated infrastructure is a major brake on AI adoption. 84% of respondents say they have cancelled a pilot or an AI project because of the limitations of their legacy systems, and 93% believe that deploying AI without modernising infrastructure will cause a security crisis. The study also finds that 89% of CIOs fear an AI bubble, that 99% consider it important not to depend on a single vendor following the dispute between the US government and Anthropic, and that 51% have hired employees to correct work generated by AI.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
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84 %
CIOs who have cancelled an AI project because of legacy systems
945 CIOs/CTOs in 19 countries, companies with annual revenue of $500M or more, August 2026
« El 84% afirma que las limitaciones de sus sistemas legacy han provocado que su organización cancele un piloto o un proyecto de IA. »
Source: GFT Technologies / Wakefield Research
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93 %
CIOs fearing an AI-related security crisis on outdated infrastructure
945 CIOs/CTOs in 19 countries
« el 93% cree que no modernizar antes de ejecutar IA sobre infraestructura obsoleta acabará desencadenando una una crisis de seguridad que afecte a toda la organización. »
Source: GFT Technologies
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89 %
CIOs concerned about a possible AI bubble
945 CIOs/CTOs in 19 countries
« El 89% está preocupado por que la inversión global en IA pueda estar creciendo más rápido que el valor empresarial que puede generar de forma realista. »
Source: GFT Technologies
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99 %
Importance of not depending on a single AI vendor
945 CIOs/CTOs in 19 countries
« El 99% afirma que las posibles restricciones gubernamentales al acceso a la IA incrementan la importancia de no depender de un único proveedor de IA »
Source: GFT Technologies
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42 %
CIOs favouring in-house construction of AI infrastructure
945 CIOs/CTOs in 19 countries
« el 42% de los encuestados se inclina ahora por construir internamente la infraestructura de IA en lugar de adquirirla a proveedores externos. »
Source: GFT Technologies
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51 %
Companies that have hired staff to correct AI's work
945 CIOs/CTOs in 19 countries
« Más de la mitad (51 %) afirmó haber contratado a empleados específicamente para revisar o corregir el trabajo generado por la IA »
Source: GFT Technologies
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26 %
Companies that have rehired employees previously laid off
945 CIOs/CTOs in 19 countries
« el 26 % señaló haber readmitido a empleados a los que habían despedido anteriormente. »
Source: GFT Technologies
Classification
- Country
- Worldwide scope
- Company size
- Large companies, Mid-sized companies
- Industries
- All industries, or industry not specified · Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms
- Companies
- Wakefield Research (cited), GFT Technologies (study author), Anthropic (cited)
- Keywords
- legacy systems, cios, outdated infrastructure, ai bubble, it security, employment
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Revista Byte TI and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.