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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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As of today, AI development companies have signed contracts to purchase more than $4 billion of AI training capacity in Oracle’s Generation 2 cloud. The growth in total revenue was driven by the momentum in the company’s total cloud sales (IaaS and SaaS combined), which grew 30% year-on-year to $4.6 billion. billion. “And

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Expedia Group Photo) Shilpa Ranganathan is back at Expedia Group as its new chief product officer. Ranganathan spent the past 16 years at Microsoft, most recently as a corporate vice president on the senior leadership team of Windows. Pamela Maynard , the company’s former CEO departed in August for a job at Microsoft.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Plus, according to a recent survey of 2,500 senior leaders of global enterprises conducted by Google Cloud and National Research Group, 34% say theyre already seeing ROI for individual productivity gen AI use cases, and 33% expect to see ROI within the next year. We see about 60% of our developers using it on a day-to-day basis, he says.

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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

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 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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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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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Bridge is one of Kyndryl’s major services offerings, which include consulting, hybrid cloud, security, and applications services. AI networking is definitely in its early days, but we have been in a few consulting engagements about that,” Shagoury said. “A Current partners include Cisco, Fortinet, Microsoft, and Nokia.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

“We’re getting back into this frenetic spend mode that we saw in the early days of cloud,” observed James Greenfield, vice president of AWS Commerce Platform, at the FinOps X conference in San Diego in June. We’ve already seen the cost of AI really start to negatively impact cloud budgets,” he says. “In

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CTOvision

APRIL 7, 2014

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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. Bill Cox , a longtime Microsoft business leader , joined Lyra Health as its vice president of product marketing. Portland, Ore. Portland, Ore.-based

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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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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

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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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

A hybrid cloud may become the solution as the debate between public vs private cloud becomes so 2013. The industry’s experts will debate on when the hybrid clouds are and are not the be all and end all and if the infrastructure supporting the hybrid clouds really matters. It is an event you do not want to miss.

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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. Sundar will be based in Seattle. (F5

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

— Ali Dasdan , chief technology officer of ZoomInfo Technologies , is resigning from his role at the publicly traded company to “pursue a new opportunity,” according to a new Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Benmalek left Microsoft in 2018 after 22 years at the Redmond, Wash.,

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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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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. Anna Olson.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

“Technology such as AI is redefining business models, requiring organizations to make the seismic shift from a novice technology organization to a mature and trusted leader,’’ says Raj Sharma, consulting vice chair at EY Americas. “As It’s much easier to drive change and transformation when you have a voice.”

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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

JANUARY 3, 2024

“We’ve been conducting extensive research with partners like Gartner, McKinsey, and others to understand the market landscape and how other companies are using this technology,” says Yexi Liu, CIO of food products multinational Rich Products. Can I run it in my own virtual cloud?” Beyond that, most vendors are still falling short.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. Rathnam spent almost a decade at Amazon, most recently as a vice president, and previously was a general manager and partner software architect at Microsoft. Microsoft Photo). Founded in 2014, Vettd.ai The Redmond, Wash.,

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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. The strategic importance of technology leadership has never been greater, especially as organizations attempt to tackle information security, artificial intelligence, cloud transformations, etc.,”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

. — Graham Sheldon , former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. UiPath is based in New York City and has an office in Bellevue, Wash. Sheldon spent more than 20 years at Microsoft in various roles.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

John’s deep understanding of cybersecurity and cloud, along with his proven track record of driving growth, will be a tremendous asset as we evolve our portfolio to address the hybrid, multi-cloud, and AI-driven complexity our customers face today,” F5 CEO François Locoh-Donou said in a statement. F5 plans to hire a new CTO.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

OpenAI’s November 2022 announcement of ChatGPT and its subsequent $10 billion in funding from Microsoft were the “shots heard ’round the world” when it comes to the promise of generative AI. in concert with Microsoft’s AI-optimized Azure platform. CarMax CITO Shamim Mohammed confirms his company was using OpenAI’s GPT-3.x

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Goals of enterprise architecture EA is guided by the organization’s business requirements — it helps lay out how information, business, and technology flow together. Gartner: After acquiring The Meta Group in 2005, Gartner established best practices for EAP and adapted them into the company’s general consulting practices.

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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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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Sundaresan is an Amazon and Microsoft alum and was most recently head of growth and traffic at Airbnb.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

“La tecnologia – si pensi, per esempio, all’IA – sta ridefinendo i modelli di business, richiedendo alle imprese di passare da un’organizzazione tecnologica alle prime armi a un assetto dirigenziale maturo e affidabile”, afferma Raj Sharma, consulting vice chair di EY Americas.

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