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. This is largely the No.

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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. Overspending is easy to do,” says Chris McMasters, CIO at the City of Corona, California.

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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. But things are going to get really interesting when agents start talking to each other, says Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant.

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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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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

AUGUST 14, 2024

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI. That’s risky.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2023

Equipped with experiences across a range of industries, a healthy dose of self-awareness, and a passion for learning and people, Allen is redefining the art of the possible as a strategic and innovative CTO. Why limit yourself to just saying, ‘We need a network upgrade to move to the cloud,’ when you can also make other suggestions?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Especially with companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Salesforce and others in the news recently with announcements of agentic AI and agent creation tools and capabilities. Microsoft recently announced the release of Copilot agents. Microsoft is describing AI agents as the new applications for an AI-powered world.

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CTOvision

APRIL 7, 2014

in Advanced Research Contracts For its Labs Division. in new contracts for advanced cybersecurity projects for defense and federal government agencies in the areas of cloud-based advanced malware analysis, spear-phishing attacks against Android, and big data analytics for compromise detection. contract with the U.S.

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GeekWire

MAY 3, 2023

Oleria’s new CTO Siva Garudayagari. Oleria Photo) — Salesforce-backed cybersecurity startup Oleria hired Siva Garudayagari as its chief technology officer. He worked in various roles at Microsoft, where he helped build the SQL server, incubated multiple Azure platform services, and integrated third-party services onto the cloud.

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CTOvision

MARCH 13, 2017

Over the last decade, cloud computing has gone from being a buzzword to an essential component of web technology. Businesses, enticed away from traditional data center models by lower upfront capital costs and simpler solutions to scaling and reliability issues, have been adopting cloud technology in droves. IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

F5 Photo) — Seattle-based networking and security giant F5 hired John Maddison as chief product marketing and technology alliances officer. The company named Cooper Werner as its new chief financial officer, and moved Kunal Anand from CTO to the position of chief innovation officer. F5 plans to hire a new CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

Oracle’s latest financial report boasts substantial increases in revenue, net income, and earnings per share, largely thanks to cloud sales, which the company was quick to credit to the rise of AI. Despite the fact that we are opening new and expanding existing cloud data centers very, very rapidly.”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. She previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft. MTI) hired Craig Parietti as CFO and Tony Woods as VP of human resources. . He was previously a group engineering manager at Microsoft.

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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

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. Microsoft 365, for example, natively backs up data on a regular basis and users can roll back to these backups, but there are limitations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. Upgrading cloud infrastructure is critical for deploying broad AI initiatives more quickly, so that’s a key area where investments are being made this year.

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GeekWire

MARCH 20, 2025

” Leaner and cheaper Leneway, a former startup CTO and developer evangelist at Microsoft, has spent the past year building an AI coding assistant and more recently published videos detailing his experience with Cursor. ” Patrick Ellis , CTO at Seattle startup Snapbar, said his company planned to hire an engineer last year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

As organizations increasingly rely on cloud-based services and cybersecurity solutions to protect their digital assets, the incident serves as a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities inherent in even the most robust systems. So while the CrowdStrike incident is dramatic, cloud outages are not rare.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Karat Image). — Karat , a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews , hired two new executives. Common Room, a Seattle startup that aims to help companies deepen relationships with their users and customers, hired Matt Duchesne as vice president of sales. He also worked at VMware and Avi Networks. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. In our case, we run it on AWS within our own private cloud, he says. Legal indemnification is a common feature of gen AI contracts from OpenAI, Microsoft, Adobe, and other major vendors. Finally, theres the price.

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GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2024

(Talkdesk Photo) — Munil Shah , a former engineering leader at UiPath who previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, has joined San Francisco startup Talkdesk as chief technology officer. Shah, based in Seattle, was most recently a CTO at UiPath, the robotic process automation software giant. million investment round.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

— Aziz Benmalek , a long-time leader at Microsoft , is now CEO and board director of Aeris , a Chicago company facilitating device connectivity via cellular networks. Benmalek left Microsoft in 2018 after 22 years at the Redmond, Wash., His title was vice president of worldwide cloud services and hosting.

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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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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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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

— Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. Binde succeeds Ameesh Paleja who served as OfferUp’s CTO for two years. He previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

(Qualtrics Photo) — Qualtrics appointed Microsoft veteran Rachita Sundar as its chief financial officer and member of the executive leadership team. Previous to that role she was at Microsoft for 13 years, rising to the position of senior finance director of Microsoft U.S. Capossela spent more than 30 years at Microsoft.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. A Seattle startup led by cloud computing veterans has quietly attracted big-name users and top venture capital firms as it aims to help improve developer productivity. Abbas worked at Microsoft for 11 years before joining Amazon in 2010. Temporal Photo). million.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

CIO packages often include stock options, relocation expenses, and hiring bonuses, says Victor Janulaitis, CEO of consulting firm Janco. Typically, [CIOs] have 401ks and as part of the negotiation process, they’ll negotiate a lump sum that will offset the cost of that loss” from leaving their current job. “The Stephenson says.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left to right: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy; Pulumi co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. The Series C round is a vote of confidence in Pulumi, which helps developers build underlying cloud computing infrastructure using general purpose languages such as JavaScript and Python.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

JLL, for instance, provides facilities management services for many cloud and data center operators. At the heart of JLL’s transformation into a technology provider is the cloud infrastructure JLL built using AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure, as well as Snowflake for data storage and Azure AI and Databricks for AI models.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

. — Kim Swift has been named the senior director of cloud gaming for Xbox Game Studios Publishing. In her new role at Xbox, Swift will work on innovation and collaborating with independent studios to build games for the cloud, according to an announcement Monday. Microsoft is investing heavily in cloud-related gaming efforts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

billion company has 11,000 employees and a presence in more than 100 different countries, and has already picked its broadest AI providers — Microsoft, SAP and Salesforce. For example, companies should already ask what kind of security audits and standards vendors have in their cloud environments, says Gartner analyst Arun Chandrasekaran.

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

(Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips , a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. Phillips left Microsoft last year after spending a decade at the Redmond, Wash., ” Google Cloud revenue rose 28% to more than $8 billion in the second quarter. .

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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. Before that, he was the chief information security advisor at Microsoft India. .

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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. It’s bigger than working on interesting problems. I can tell you he didn’t come for the weather,” Rau jokes.

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GeekWire

JUNE 27, 2024

Vered was most recently CTO at engineering insights startup Uplevel. He previously held engineering leadership roles at Zipwhip, Microsoft, VoloMetrix, and Cisco. ” — Chris Vonderhaar , a former Amazon Web Services executive who joined Google Cloud last year , has left the Silicon Valley company.

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