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

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

AUGUST 2, 2024

Singapore’s data centers have a 1% vacancy rate, and data center availability in the huge northern Virgina data center hub stands at 0.9%, despite an 18% increase in capacity between early 2023 and early 2024, according to the report. The 2023 CBRE report found that 83% of the data center capacity under construction at the time was presold.

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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

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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.” One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves.

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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.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 2, 2023

At the time, lab space was hard to find in the city, said Outpace chief technology officer Scott Boyken. Outpace Bio co-founder and CTO Scott Boyken (left) and CEO and co-founder Marc Lajoie. Outpace Bio’s office area is built on an open plan with multiple rooms for quiet work and conferencing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

As organizations roll out AI applications and AI-enabled smartphones and devices, IT leaders may need to sell the benefits to employees or risk those investments falling short of business expectations. Employee training on AI is essential, says Sam Ferrise, CTO at Trinetix, a tech consulting firm.

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2024

Consultation with local employee representatives, where applicable, will occur before making any final decisions.” Expedia has made smaller cutbacks in recent years, including an unspecified number of jobs last year in its Traveler Products team, part of Product & Technology division.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Thats nearly twice the total of 2023 and significantly higher than the previous record, set in 2022, of $963 million. And some large, cutting-edge enterprises are already beginning to spend money on quantum technology. But while Citigroup waits for that to happen, its already experimenting with the technology thats available.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

We’ve had a homegrown customer data environment for decades,” says Paul Gaffney, CTO and supply chain officer at the $19.4 Gartner analyst Erick Brethenoux says use of consultant data and ML models is gaining steam, especially among retailers. We now have a matrix that’s about 1,500 cells instead of just 35,” the CTO says.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2024

But the entire process will need to be reinvented in order to make full use of the technology, says Monteiro. Theres too much attention on AI for code development, which is actually just a fraction of the whole software development process. We have to look at how we interact with colleagues and how we interact with AI, he adds.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

(Y Combinator Photo) Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator’s summer 2023 batch are tackling a wide range of problems — with plenty of help from artificial intelligence. Watto AI, an AI program that generates consulting reports. YC received more than 24,000 applications for this year’s summer batch.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It sells a small hardware device called Airship Outpost that encodes video and a web application called Acropolis OS that manages surveillance systems. million in revenue through the first nine months of 2023, down nearly 40% from the year-ago period, with a net loss of $6.5 It entered 2023 with $162.9 Airship AI reported $8.1

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

times compared to 2023 but forecasts lower increases over the next two to five years. CIOs feeling the pressure will likely seek more pragmatic AI applications, platform simplifications, and risk management practices that have short-term benefits while becoming force multipliers to longer-term financial returns.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. The year 2023 seems to be no different. on average for 2023, research firm Gartner points to a projected 6.5%

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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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GeekWire

JANUARY 15, 2024

Instead, DARPA is interested in developing ideas that could give rise to future commercial applications on the moon — and perhaps technology spin-offs here on Earth. PowerLight’s co-founder and chief technology officer, Tom Nugent, said the company didn’t focus on space applications at first.

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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. 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. for this year, resulting in a net gain of more than 300,000 new jobs.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Examples of virtual photo booth images created using Snapshot, a web application created by Snapbar. By June of that year, the web application called Snapshot launched and in the first month it was clear there was interest from organizations and companies conducting gatherings of all kinds online.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

million in 2023, and is expected to grow by 5% in 2025, equal to 3.75 Case in point was the high turnover rate at road and highway maintenance company AVR Group, and the solutions enacted by its CTO Pierangelo Perdomi to remedy it. This helps us screen about applications 5,000 per hour. million compared to about 3.6

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The changes will take effect with the 2023 release of software, which is now generally available. The biggest remaining difference in capabilities between the two platforms is around service management, enabling companies to track and bill for things like subscriptions or contracts for service or maintenance. “We

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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. Total cloud revenue ( IaaS plus SaaS) for the company stood at $2.9 Cerner forecast to be a major business for Oracle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

The resulting redefinition of their role is influencing their priorities as they prepare for the 2023 financial year. We ensure that we build cybersecurity and data security into every aspect of the application infrastructure solution that we are delivering,” she says. Her colleague, CTO Rajaneesh R Kini, agrees.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

More than 1,000 entrepreneurs, investors and tech leaders gathered for Founders Bash 2023, a massive meet-up celebrating the region’s innovation sector. Varun Sharma , CTO and co-founder of Adauris , a startup that helps publications convert written work into audio. How will it affect enterprise applications? Varun Sharma.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

Any data that the company can access can also be demanded via legal discovery in litigation, pointed out Rebecca George, the managing director of AI consulting firm Slalom. Morgan Stanley needs to have a strategy in place,” and to discuss it publicly, said HP Newquist, the executive director of AI consulting firm The Relayer Group.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Generative AI and, more specifically, ChatGPT captivated the corporate world in 2023, with board directors, CEOs, and other executives fawning (and sometimes fearing) the technology. Some clues are found in the 2023 Cloud Business Survey from professional services firm PwC. It will just take the limits off so many things.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But by May 2023, according to an IDC survey, 65% of companies were using gen AI, and in September, that number rose to 71%, with another 22% planning to implement it in the next 12 months. And everyone is trying to build these types of applications. We’re foundationally a technology company,” she says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 20, 2023

A question of time Thomas Kiessling, CTO with Siemens Smart Infrastructure, part of the German engineering and technology conglomerate that makes trains, electrical equipment, traffic control systems, and more, understands that time is running out. As with most business challenges, data is instrumental.

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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. To top it off, Taylor says many CIOs report having CEOs, C-suite colleagues, and workers throughout their organizations clamoring for the technology and even launching their own pet projects using the tech, further upping the stress.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 1, 2023

“While computing power and hardware costs are lower on the cloud, your approach may not allow you to enjoy these savings,” explains Neal Sample, consultant and former CIO of Northwestern Mutual. A good elastic app doesn’t happen magically,” says Sample. “It It needs to be written native for AWS or for another platform.”

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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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