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Redefining enterprise transformation in the age of intelligent ecosystems

CIO Business Intelligence

Later, as an enterprise architect in consumer-packaged goods, I could no longer realistically contemplate a world where IT could execute mass application portfolio migrations from data centers to cloud and SaaS-based applications and survive the cost, risk and time-to-market implications.

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Has the CIO title run its course?

CIO Business Intelligence

Power’s newly minted CBTO is Marc Sule (pictured above), who previously served as CIO of apparel and promotional products company alphabroder for six years. Everything we build, create, all the technology we run in our data centers and the infrastructure, it all services the business,’’ Sule says.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

For many CIOs, embracing cloud point solutions has been a key facet of their strategy to get out of the data center management business. It used to be that you had 15 to 30 key vendor partners, and now it’s more than 100,” he says. It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor.

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CIOs step up to fill plus-size leadership roles

CIO Business Intelligence

There’s a natural pull to look at CIOs now not just for running data centers and applications, but to be a transformative catalyst for the business.” “There’s greater appreciation from business leaders that technology is what’s driving efficiencies, disrupting products, and underpinning new revenue models.

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Fujitsu – Transforming business and society in the digital age

CIO Business Intelligence

Fujitsu’s work with cycling apparel maker Bioracer is a prime example of this scenario in action. Like many companies, Bioracer historically had all of its information assets in one data center. They came to Fujitsu needing disaster recovery and the ability to scale their data-intensive files for the future.

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Geek of the Week: Anu Sharma left Amazon for Madrona to invest in helping new businesses

GeekWire

Sharma, our latest Geek of the Week, spent eight years at Amazon and Amazon Web Services, most recently leading a product management team at AWS for a new service, AWS Outposts , which extends AWS infrastructure and services outside of AWS owned data centers to customer locations or colocation spaces.

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Tech Moves: Smartsheet names CTO; Outreach appoints CFO; Concord’s new CEO; and other hires

GeekWire

— Sanjeev Khanna is chief operating officer for Caddis Cloud Solutions , a Texas-based advisory firm in data center development and cloud capacity sourcing. — Will Daugherty , president and CEO of the nonprofit Pacific Science Center , joined the Technology Industry Alliance board of directors.