GeekWire

MARCH 31, 2025

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas (left), CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. Temporal Photo) Temporal , a Seattle startup that helps companies write and run cloud applications, raised $146 million. Temporal raised $75 million in 2023; its valuation was “just north” of $1.5 billion at the time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

The good news is that, for managers, the best time to attract and retain talent is during economic downturns. Hiring and retaining the best people with the right skills is always the best strategy to improve overall performance.” “We need to improve overall performance while we adapt to the changing business environment,” Liu says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

More so than any previous platform shift, every layer of the application stack will be impacted. Although CoreAI will aim to be developer friendly, CIOs will still need to hire or upskill for skilled implementation teams to manage AI. Thirty years of change is being compressed into three years, Nadella said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring. To perform the job optimally in today’s fast-changing and unpredictable environment, CTOs must possess the right mix of skills and inclinations.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2025

It uses advanced machine learning capabilities to analyze surrounding terrain in real time with only onboard sensing (cameras, LIDAR, etc.) Last year Overland won a two-year contract worth up to $18.6 The companys CTO, Jonathan Fink , worked as a researcher for the U.S. and compute. million with the U.S.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In April of 2023, Censuswide conducted a survey of 608 US respondents from companies with $250m+ revenue. That study focused on CIO and CTO satisfaction with their existing IT support and services models for enterprise software. CIOs and CTOs are frustrated at the many inconveniences of managing multiple vendors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The economy may be looking uncertain, but technology continues to drive the business and CIOs are investing big in 2023. At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. And it’s not just applications development where such tools are having an impact.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024. The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If anything, 2023 has proved to be a year of reckoning for businesses, and IT leaders in particular, as they attempt to come to grips with the disruptive potential of this technology — just as debates over the best path forward for AI have accelerated and regulatory uncertainty has cast a longer shadow over its outlook in the wake of these events.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

While 2023 brought on many changes to IT departments around the world, by far the biggest surprise was generative AI. But hallucinations, lack of explainability, and regulatory nervousness quickly became barriers to many practical applications. A range of priorities But AI wasn’t the only thing on the minds of CIOs in 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

It can give me the top six oil and gas companies in a particular metro region, and the CEO, CFO, and CTO of each organization, and their background,” he says. Don’t hire data scientists just to write some emails. The AI can go deeper than a Google search.” Hold off,” says Ross. First, let’s figure out your use case.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For the past 18 years, Sun worked at Microsoft, most recently as VP of AI for its business and applications platform group. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities. Enterprise Applications, SAP

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. The IT skills shortage is critical, with CIOs losing talented employees faster than they can hire them,” said Mbula Schoen, senior director analyst at Gartner, in a recent Q&A. “IT CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We experienced the impact of one of our SaaS providers, OpCon, not having a solid DR [disaster recovery] plan during the MS Azure Central Region outage,” says Gary Jeter, CTO of TruStone Financial. A general principal of SaaS applications is the shared data responsibility.” This happened the same evening as the CrowdStrike incident.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

Healthcare seemed like a better place to put his expertise to use “than the slightly ephemeral stuff I was working on at Microsoft,” says Jones, who spent a decade at Microsoft prior to his time at Meta. At the same time, he says the level of interest in working in more traditional companies is “much more than I’ve seen in previous years.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

SAP is doubling the time between major releases of S/4HANA Cloud private edition from one year to two — at the same time promising to release new feature packs every six months or so to keep up the pace of innovation. The changes will take effect with the 2023 release of software, which is now generally available.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

We expect to add another six regions in fiscal 2023 in addition to the 38 cloud regions across 20 countries that we have already serving our customers,” Catz said, according to a transcript from Seeking Alpha. Catz pointed out that a part of the growth momentum came from existing Oracle customers expanding their footprint.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. growth rate, which resulted in about 117,000 net new hires.) According to The State of the CIO Survey,24% of CIOs view “reinventing infrastructure/applications to meet new requirements” as a challenge holding IT back.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2022

CTO Juergen Mueller, SAP’s board member responsible for technology and innovation, has adopted it within his team, while Thomas Saueressig, SAP’s head of product engineering, has also tried it out with the team working on SuccessFactors, said Younosi.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. Chan says. “The Geographical nuances are also arising. The net result?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For example, it highlighted a 153% rise in global ransomware attacks from September 2022 to September 2023. A 2023 study titled “ Embracing modernization: From technical debt to growth ,” from DXC Leading Edge, sheds some daylight on the creature. Still, he says, it’s a worker’s market for technologists.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

With the accelerated pace of digital transformation, coupled with the unprecedented arrival of the pandemic pushing enterprises towards a hybrid work culture, IT leaders have played a key part in keeping business afloat these last two years. Her colleague, CTO Rajaneesh R Kini, agrees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

The year 2023 seems to be no different. on average for 2023, research firm Gartner points to a projected 6.5% on average for 2023, research firm Gartner points to a projected 6.5% This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2024

increase in IT spending overall in 2024, compared to 4% in 2023, software spending growth suggests CIOs need to adjust their budgets downward elsewhere. Investment mode for some SnapLogic, an integration-platform-as-a-service provider, is among the companies expecting to bump up its IT budget, says Jeremiah Stone, CTO at the company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2024

Such figures aren’t surprising, given data’s importance for not only powering AI and ML applications but also for feeding conventional business intelligence programs. “It That’s up from 85% who said as much in 2023. a real estate and parking investment, development, and operations company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Companies in Europe are required to start scope 3 reporting in 2024 with data from 2023, so collecting that data starts now. With each new generation of the sophisticated applications companies have come to depend on—applications, such as machine learning and data analytics—compute requirements soar to new heights.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

That includes the decision to appoint or hire a chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). Foundry / AI Priorities Study 2023 The ideal individual to assume this role should have much more than top technology and AI skills, says Colin Reeves, principal data and AI recruiter at ConSol Partners in Los Angeles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In addition, with Google and Microsoft, Oracle has interconnect agreements in place so that users are not charged for moving data out of Oracle Cloud and into Google and Microsoft, says Adam Reeves, IDC research director on PaaS for developers of modern and edge applications. “It AI startups are getting in the interoperability game as well.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2023

The five finalists for CEO of the Year in the 2023 GeekWire Awards are taking on a broad and important range of challenges: workplace equity; machine learning and AI creation; identification and tracking; immigration application processes; and fending off bots. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

All central government departments will confirm an adoption strategy and roadmap for the new One Login programme by April 2023, and their services will have begun onboarding by 2025, according to Natalie Jones, director of digital identity at the Government Digital Service (GDS). Digital skills at scale.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2025

He was followed by Greg Clark , who became chief executive in October 2023. Casium spun out of the AI2 Incubator and brings artificial intelligence to bear on immigration applications by businesses seeking to hire talented foreign workers and for founders creating startups. — Vancouver, Wash.,

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It laid off more than 1,000 employees in October 2023. Anand joined the Seattle-based application security and delivery company in April. It is unclear if or when the company will be filling the CTO role. LinkedIn Photo) — Seattle’s Valant hired Rick Katz as chief financial officer. Roberts earned a Ph.D.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Microsoft itself claims half of Fortune 500 companies use its Copilot tools and the number of daily users doubled in Q4 2023, although without saying how widely they’re deployed in those organizations. It’s embedded in the applications we use every day and the security model overall is pretty airtight. That’s risky.”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Examples of virtual photo booth images created using Snapshot, a web application created by Snapbar. But the company’s single software engineer, originally hired to rebuild Snapbar’s website, was already working on the future — a virtual photo booth. ” The software engineer, Patrick Ellis, is now Snapbar’s CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI is now a board-level priority Last year, AI consisted of point solutions and niche applications that used ML to predict behaviors, find patterns, and spot anomalies in carefully curated data sets. In July, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions. billion to the global economy.

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