CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2025

With hybrid on-prem and cloud-deployed solutions and differences of capability and alignment between organizations and their suppliers, this can be a real challenge! Leveraging cloud solutions that drive simplification and standardization in business processes and technology investment where appropriate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud. Cloud costs continue to be a top concern for CIOs,” says Dave McCarthy, analyst at IDC.

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CTOvision

APRIL 27, 2014

Everyone with any history in or around government has stories they can tell about federal government procurements. Perhaps the first 535 reasons are the 535 voting members of the US Congress that have the funding, oversight and legislative powers for how government works. And both, from time to time, blame IT vendors!

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Dave McCarthy, research vice president at IDC and one the surveys authors, points out that CIOs are still dealing with how best to manage unexpected costs in the cloud and have learned that estimating costs for new workloads is challenging without historical data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Theres too much attention on AI for code development, which is actually just a fraction of the whole software development process. Nobody wants to be hired or fired by a machine that has no accountability. Its a step forward in terms of governance, trying to make sure AI is being used in a socially beneficial way.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 20, 2015

Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWAC) are pre-competed vehicles that enable any government agency to buy cost-effective, innovative solutions to meet information technology requirements. Offerings have also been engineered to be quickly delivered, and the contract vehicle itself was designed with speed in mind.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Allegis had been using Eclipse for 10 years, when the system was acquired by Epicor, and Allegis began exploring migrating to a cloud-based ERP system. We really liked [NetSuite’s] architecture and that it’s in the cloud, and it hit the vast majority of our business requirements,” Shannon notes.

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CTOvision

APRIL 7, 2014

in Advanced Research Contracts For its Labs Division. This builds on the growth that the company posted in the quarter previous to this period , and in a time when the company launched its first small business offering. contract with the U.S. – bg. FAIRFAX, VA—April 7, 2014 —Invincea, Inc.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The strategy was to replicate transactions from those ERPs in near real time, and stage the data in a purposeful store format on the cloud. The first hire we made in our platform journey was a chief data officer with experience from Instagram and Priceline. This is crucial in a value-driven development model.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

The demand for cloud infrastructure combined with the rise in sales of SaaS services boosted Oracle’s fourth quarter revenue for fiscal year 2022, but the acquisition of healthcare tech company Cerner has chalked up a debt of $15.8 Total cloud revenue ( IaaS plus SaaS) for the company stood at $2.9

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Check in on those cloud costs “Highly scalable technology combined with increasing use and increasing costs leads to runaway spending,” says Mark Troller, CIO at telecom expense management company Tangoe, which estimates that its clients overspend on cloud by as much as 40%.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

For many insurers, this means investing in cloud. King Price, a South Africa-based, privately held short-term insurance provider, were able to radically transform their business strategy, increasing system resilience, customer expansion and market adaptability in the process of adopting cloud technology.

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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.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Don’t hire a full-time sales executive or rep yet. There are many former government officials who now run successful consultancies. Among the experts are: Alan Wade (former CIO at CIA), Fran Landolf (former SIS at NSA), Bob Flores (former CTO at CIA), Bob Gourley (former CTO at DIA), Jill Singer (former CIO at NRO), etc.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2024

To better understand what’s happening with AI usage in enterprises and its impact on people, policies, and processes, I conducted an informal poll in June with several CISOs and CTO peers. Setting up guidelines and governing principles seems to be a common step for managing AI use in large enterprises.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. February 2022. Goel has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. Kamal Goel Web Werks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cloud strategies are undergoing a sea change of late, with CIOs becoming more intentional about making the most of multiple clouds. They were mostly in one cloud with a few workloads in a different cloud. A lot of ‘multicloud’ strategies were not actually multicloud. Oracle is providing a different template.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 15, 2016

NASA Awards Contract for Simulation, Aircraft Services. NASA Awards International Space Station Cargo Transport Contracts. USDA ramps up cloud service strategy - GCN.com. USDA ramps up cloud service strategy - GCN.com. GAO sends back a Defense Health Agency contract for a second opinion.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

For many agencies, the question is not whether to move to a cloud environment, but how to move to a cloud environment in an efficient, cost-effective manner with little disruption to services and capabilities. When moving to a cloud environment, agencies must answer the following questions: Which cloud environment is appropriate?

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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. The nightly processing jobs were significantly delayed, which has a large impact on our credit union and our members.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 6, 2015

Ray Johnson, Former Lockheed CTO, Appointed to Terrestrial Energy’s Intl Advisory Board. How to secure a private cloud for health care data - GCN.com. A 'Yelp for Government' is Coming - Nextgov. How to secure a private cloud for healthcare data - GCN.com. Long-time Cisco exec departs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

The UK Central Data and Digital Office (CDDO) has unveiled the Transforming for a Digital Future strategy, which sets out a collective cross-government roadmap and vision for 2025. For key government priorities, the government will look to embed ‘digital approaches and cross-functional teams into policy design and delivery.’.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Initiative, a multi-stakeholder partnership of businesses, NGOs, governments, and other players was formed in 1998 to define standards and frameworks, including three different scopes for reporting. Gülay Stelzmüllner, CIO of Allianz Technology, recently hired Rainer Karcher as head of IT sustainability. “My

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Discover Financial Services Arooni is joined by scores of industry leaders across segments such as retail, financial services, healthcare, even government entities moving in this direction. Cloud delivery is part of the solution, but product-centric teams help build trust and continuity of expertise.

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CTOvision

JULY 7, 2015

DHS Launches Federal Government's First FOIA App - Nextgov NextGov (Today) - DHS Launches Federal Government's First FOIA App Nextgov The Department of Homeland Security has released a new mobile app to make it easier for the public to submit Freedom of Information Act. Why Most Public Cloud Solutions Are Unsafe? This is a 1965.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

The top priority for IT at Marco’s Pizza has been developing an in-house cloud-based technology platform at a time when digital ordering has grown threefold. The work that is not repetitive is changing at a remarkable pace,” says Jon Walden, Blue Prism’s CTO for the Americas. Think a step ahead. Much of IT work is repetitive.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example, companies should already ask what kind of security audits and standards vendors have in their cloud environments, says Gartner analyst Arun Chandrasekaran. Can I run it in my own virtual cloud?” Insight has a partner contract management team that looks closely at vendor agreements. “If

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

In his most recent role, McCay focused on multi-cloud strategy at a private firm that worked with various U.S. federal government agencies. Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. Portland, Ore.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Gen AI boom in the making Many early and established forays into generative AI are being developed on the AI platforms of cloud leaders Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, reportedly with numerous guardrails and governance measures in place to contain unrestricted exploration.

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CTOvision

APRIL 20, 2016

Government only as transparent as its technology, advocates say - FCW.com. Technology|FBI Says It Needs Hackers to Keep Up With Tech Companies - New York Times. An engine for Mars: Aerojet wins $67M NASA contract for solar electric propulsion. Free webinar series: ‘Agile for the Government Project Manager’.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Yesterday I thoroughly enjoyed an opportunity to participate in the DorobekINSIDER LIVE edition on cloud computing. Joining me on the show were: Jim Sweeney, author of the book Get Your Head in the Cloud: Unlocking the Mystery for Public Sector and President and CTO of V3 Systems. Global: by nature cloud is a global enterprise.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

On 26 August 2015 the Department of Defense (DoD) published a new rule entitled the "Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Network Penetration Reporting and Contracting for Cloud Services (DFARS Case 2013-D018). The rules also spell out how cloud computing services will be leveraged. It is not that long.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

In addition to the established CIO, CTO, CISO, and chief digital officer (CDO) roles, Sharma says EY is seeing “additional instances” of chief innovation officers and chief experience officers. This includes defining and refining the company’s business processes and governance models — and going through a backlog of 1,000 AI project ideas.

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