CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

In a move that significantly bolsters its position in the cloud services market, IBM has announced it is acquiring HashiCorp , a multicloud infrastructure automation company, for $6.4 Today’s announcement is a continuation of IBM’s deep focus and investment in hybrid cloud and AI, the two most transformational technologies for clients today.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Consulting giant Deloitte says 70% of business leaders have moved 30% or fewer of their experiments into production. He’s also adding other emerging technologies, including using Freshworks’ generative tool, Freddy AI, to summarise service requests. The policy says, ‘If you’re unsure, ask.’ We want to use it for X, Y, or Z.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

A related concept, CloudOps, for “cloud operations,” has emerged as enterprises increasingly move application development and workloads to the cloud, and those cloud outlays become more complex. CloudOps: A multilayered framework for cloud operations.

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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 27, 2024

In Italy specifically, more than 52% of companies, and CIOs in particular, continue to struggle finding the technical professionals they need, according to data by Unioncamere, the Italian Union of Chambers of Commerce, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies. Talents must be paid. As for scarcity, the first solution is planning.

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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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CTOvision

AUGUST 13, 2013

By Bob Gourley CTOlabs.com, a subsidiary of the technology research, consulting and services firm Crucial Point LLC and a peer site of CTOvision.com , has just announced a white paper titled “ Empowering Analysts with Big Data.” Analysis Analytical Tools Big Data Cloud Computing CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC Gov2.0

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Those CIOs typically saw that approach as a starting point for their cloud journeys.

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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. . His title was vice president of worldwide cloud services and hosting.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

That early adoption was due to the fact that insurance is a data-intensive business and, in addition to seeing the benefits AI could bring, most large insurers were already pretty far along on the cloud migration and data modernization efforts that are needed to support large-scale AI rollouts. billion annually.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. While inflation challenges have moderated in the US from a high of 9.1% in June, 2022, to 3.7%

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Savvis Announces Availability of Rebuilt Cloud Data Center. Savvis Announces Availability of Rebuilt Cloud Data Center. Savvis , the cloud hosting unit of CenturyLink, announced global availability of an infrastructure as a service offering called Cloud Data Center. By: Jason Verge July 25th, 2013.

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CTOvision

APRIL 27, 2014

This dialogue is part an effort to improve the economy and efficiency of the federal acquisition system by identifying impactful steps that can be taken to make it easier for agencies to do business with the best companies and enter into contracts that allow these companies to provide their best solutions for the taxpayer. Do that at: [link].

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

As CIOs respond to corporate mandates to “just do something” with genAI, many are launching cloud-based or on-premises initiatives. Shifting to small language models, hybrid infrastructure Savvy IT leaders are aware of the risk of overspending on genAI infrastructure, whether on-premises or in the cloud.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Cloud – Get on Board or be left Behind. By: Brandee Daly, Founder C2S Consulting Group. Trigg Borgerson, CTO. Cloud is not just for your IT Department. Today’s IT leaders are companies that are able to move quickly, fail fast, and leverage the cost savings and innovation the cloud offers.

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Organizations should discuss ways they can modernize their technology infrastructure to support architectures in which security is built in, not simply bolted on, says Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables. Do we address cyber scenarios to the extent that we should? Planning is critical, Folk says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

Successful AI teams also include a range of people who understand the business and the problems it’s trying to solve, says Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst for AI platforms, analytics, and data management at consulting firm Omdia. A data steward also enforces an organization’s policies around data usage and security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

Plus, the implementation of cloud technology and the ability to use data at scale has markedly improved. Unlike prior chatbots and other digital point solutions, generative AI technology is transformative because it unlocks the power of unstructured data to create new content. The timing could not be better.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. Donaldson was most recently a vice president of product development at cloud-enabled camera designer AV Costar.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Downing and team soon recognized their approach wasn’t adding strategic value, so they identified a preferred partner and created policies to better determine when moving to another cloud for features or functions made strategic sense. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Of the 92% of IT executives expressing interest in gen AI, 57% are busy identifying use cases, 45% are launching pilot programs, 41% are training employees on gen AI, and 40% are establishing policies and guidelines. CarMax CITO Shamim Mohammed confirms his company was using OpenAI’s GPT-3.x

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Product manager over technical debt “Best-in-class architects work in lockstep with self-organizing, agile teams to employ modernization programs that shift legacy point solutions and services into sound, robust cloud infrastructures,” says Jason Forget, president and CRO of Cockroach Labs.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

(F5 Photo) — Kunal Anand of F5 is changing roles, moving from chief technology officer to chief innovation officer. It is unclear if or when the company will be filling the CTO role. Rick Katz, chief financial officer for Valant. Roberts earned a Ph.D.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“The key to providing top-tier service delivery is the integration of a skilled staff, streamlined operations and processes, and the use of innovative technologies,” says Marcus Cziomer, a senior vice president at cloud services firm Lemongrass. IT leaders need a comprehensive plan to make their operation the best it can be.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Plus, when you add in cloud-based gen AI tools like ChatGPT, the percentage of companies using gen AI in one form or another becomes nearly universal. And this doesn’t include the gen AI that’s now being embedded into platforms like Office 365, Google Docs, and Salesforce. We’re foundationally a technology company,” she says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This disciplined approach enables an organization to align its governance, risk, and compliance endeavors to its strategic goals, business objectives, and the technology that enables its operations. Governance is who does what, how, and based on what data,” says Tilcia Toledo, senior managing director with FTI Consulting.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Toth was previously VP of people and policy at Slack and head of privacy and policy for Google social products including Google+. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Goldsmith was most recently CTO at identity verification provider Onfido.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

EA helps organizations structure IT projects and policies to achieve desired business results, to stay agile and resilient in the face of rapid change, and to stay on top of industry trends and disruptions using architecture principles and practices, a process also known as enterprise architectural planning (EAP). It’s designed for the U.S.

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 6, 2012

Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. International Public Sector Cloud Computing Summit in DC.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Analyst estimates of IT and tech spend outside of the CIO/CTO budgets range from 40-45 -to 60%. Behind-the-screens systemic genAI and AI-to-AI engines, as well as AI that lives in the cloud, will be the lower-level detail that will drive ‘front end AI’ — and which will continue to remain a core technology domain.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Researchers at the Spark Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin have uncovered a new cyberattack method named ConfusedPilot , which has significant implications for cloud and data security. A flexible approach that allows for the continuous evolution of security policies is vital."

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

For key government priorities, the government will look to embed ‘digital approaches and cross-functional teams into policy design and delivery.’. Whitehall has expressed a desire to move to a buy once, use many times approach to technology as well as ensuring that nationally important systems are resilience tested annually.

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