CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

“People may be used to working on legacy applications and processes, but as part of digitally transforming the organization, an IT leader will have to put in place new processes and solutions that are beneficial for the company and don’t impact it in any negative way.” To curtail costs, Pal froze new hiring.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

McKee, tech founder and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies, acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe. One client cut staff earlier this year, only to discover that another part of the business needed their institutional knowledge for a strategic project.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. The company says its mission is to help de-escalate police use of force by providing transparency, technologies and tools that can replace deadly weapons. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The answers reflected the need for companies to properly prepare for cloud migrations. The “unanticipated” costs of not doing the prep work are legion: egress charges, (semi-) failed moves, moving the wrong things/combinations at the wrong times, failure to capture service costs pre-move for comparison, and so many more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

Talk about timing: just as we completed the acquisition of Symantec in November 2019, a global pandemic hit. It’s not unusual either for customers to share with us that in some parts of their organization they are still trying to figure out what software is running where and under what licensing agreement. Lingering skills gap.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2024

Investment mode for some SnapLogic, an integration-platform-as-a-service provider, is among the companies expecting to bump up its IT budget, says Jeremiah Stone, CTO at the company. It’s a good time to invest in generative AI, as leading companies began to find strong use cases , he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2023

Where tech is moving from on premise to software as a service, the licensing, procurement and contractual models have changed and keep evolving, which requires expert procurement professionals who are hard to come by,” he says. “A Company culture must be at the center of any talent strategy, particularly when employees are spoiled for choice.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

based company leveraging artificial intelligence to help develop new small molecule drugs, has raised $3.5 The six-employee company has partnerships with an undisclosed public biopharma company, the University of British Columbia, and others. Kim previously co-founded three other companies in the mobile marketing and AI areas.

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CTOvision

MARCH 13, 2017

Major cloud infrastructure services like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services have fueled new hiring strategies, with 81% of enterprises adopting DevOps strategies and engineers. Furthermore, Software as a Service (SaaS) models allow companies to distribute their teams, focus on results, and simplify licensing and software upgrade issues.

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GeekWire

APRIL 28, 2021

Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as chief technology officer. I really enjoy this period in a startup company, when they are poised on the brink of tremendous growth,” said Porad. Prior to joining Rover in 2013, Porad was CTO for Cheezburger and held multiple director roles at Bellevue, Wash.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But there’s also the downside: the possibility gen AI will take companies down. The phrase “existential risk” is now everywhere—not in the sense the AI would destroy humanity, but that it would make business functions, or even entire companies, obsolete. Italy’s knee-jerk reaction was a shot across the bow,” says Greenstein.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

In reality, cloud migration is expensive, and not having a full and complete picture of all costs can sink a business,” warns Aref Matin, CTO at publishing firm John Wiley & Sons. They may find there’s software that can have multiple licenses added for more than one team to use across the company,” he notes.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2024

He was previously executive vice president of engineering and CTO at tax software giant Avalara, and also led teams at Microsoft and Concur. Founded in 2018, Vouched helps companies verify the identity of customers and users by examining driver’s licenses and other forms of identification. The company is ranked No.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Of course, making this distinction can be challenging, and is a skill that can take time to develop, says Mittal, whose company is taking a tech-first, cloud-native approach to transforming loan servicing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

Some hires may need to be postponed. Your teams should have the same quality of tools your customers would expect, says Tam Ayers, field CTO for Digibee, which he says leads to better productivity and efficiency. Being a data-driven company is a continuous journey, not a destination,” she says. Keep calm and lead on.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

It can also expose companies to future legislation. These complaints, filed by a variety of different copyright holders, allege the companies of training their AIs on copyrighted data—images, code, and text. In July, for example, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

By Peter Thorp Editor’s Note: B7 General Partner Peter Thorp was an early employee of Mosaic, the company that became Netscape and started the Internet revolution. At this time, Andreessen, a recent graduate, is working at his University’s NCSA for about $6.85 The project has been rejected. Month 6: The Emigration.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Moonstone Bank , formerly known as Farmington State Bank, said in a statement that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research trading firm has less than a 10% stake in its parent company, with no board seats and no direct involvement in management. The New York Times reported Nov. Moonstone Bank’s reputation as well.”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

of Transportation warns toll customers about using bill-pay service Doxo The Washington State Department of Transportation is cautioning customers about using Seattle-based bill payment company Doxo to pay Good to Go! . … Read More Washington State Dept. … Read More . … Read More

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CTOvision

MARCH 2, 2016

This is posing a challenge especially for companies involved in products not traditionally thought of as able to collect personally identifiable data. You’ll find who owns the data in documents such as end-user license agreements. Businesses, including farms, are for example signing contracts with drone companies.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

AWS has grown into a $45 billion business and a market leader that helps boost Amazon’s profits and allows the company to invest heavily in other areas. Seattle angel investor and cloud technology guru Charles Fitzgerald said the hire makes a lot of sense. Selipsky oversaw the company’s acquisition by Salesforce for $15.7

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2021

Vouched , a Seattle startup that helps companies verify identity, has landed $4.5 It’s a vote of confidence in the 3-year-old company, which spun out of Madrona Venture Labs, the accelerator based at Madrona Venture Group in Seattle. . The idea is to provide fraud detection of a person in real-time. Vouched Photo).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

(Zillow Photo) Seattle real estate tech company Zillow Group promoted Jun Choo to the role of chief operating officer. Choo replaces Jeremy Wackman, who took over as CEO in August when co-founder and two-time CEO Rich Barton stepped down. He joined the company nine years ago when it acquired San Francisco-based Trulia.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Seattle company raised more than $300 million and went public within a year of its launch, ultimately selling for more than $9 billion in 2018 to Celgene. All these companies are based in the Seattle region or have operations there. company GRAIL, prior to its acquisition for $8 billion. Spawning new companies.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 21, 2023

Meta released Llama 2 under a license that’s much more commercial friendly than the original LLaMA; let’s call it commercial-friendly-unless-you’re-huge because it contains a clause that triggers a need to secure a license only if the organization using Llama 2 has more than 700 million monthly active users.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

JANUARY 27, 2010

As a CTO, I’m so immersed in technology that I’m not sure “broadband” means anything to the average American (if an “average” American exists). A significant fraction of people know about broadband and what it means. Admiral Barnett’s remarks centered on wireless spectrum for use by first responders.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

It was inspired by an Onion headline, Yang explained: “ American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress.”). He touted the time he hired a chief blockchain architect, Thaddeus Batt, for the state. This summer, Colorado will begin accepting cryptocurrency to pay for taxes and drivers’ licenses.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

It’s still the case today, except entrepreneurs and companies are now beginning to adopt tools to create applications and develop services that don’t require coding. Many become coaches or consultants of low-code/no-code for companies while others within incubators or movements lead awareness and training on these technologies.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 2, 2021

Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI; Leslie Alexandre, President and CEO of Life Science Washington; Leen Kawas, CEO of Athira Pharma; Peter Lee, CVP of Research and Incubations at Microsoft; Caroline Lewis, partner at Rogue Venture Partners; and Saad Bashir, CTO for City of Seattle.

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