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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO Business Intelligence

It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. By comparison, the previous record-holder for most expensive downtime was the 2017 AWS outage, which cost customers an estimated $150 million. Our legal team knows exactly what to ask for when negotiating contracts.

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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

CIO Business Intelligence

Even after organizations use tools such as RedHats InstructLab to augment those industry-specific models with company-specific data, theyre still small by comparison. In some geographies, data localization and privacy requirements are embedded directly into customer contracts, he says.

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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations

CIO Business Intelligence

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. nyike The best way to avoid hidden #cloud costs is to read every word in the contract.

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Product manager salary: Pay range factors, tips for making more

CIO Business Intelligence

We dove into publicly available information and talked to a number of product managers and those who hire, supervise, and mentor them in order to get a sense of what you can expect in this job market — and how you can improve your prospects and your compensation if you’re working in this field. Digibee’s Porte agrees. “If

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From the Other Side of the Table — CIO Interview Questions to Employers

A CIO's Voice

Having been on the other end several times, it is important to get a sense that you will be valuable as a CIO and most importantly have job satisfaction. Can you describe your company’s growth (or lack there of) in terms of revenue and hiring over the last 5-10 years? Below are a few questions I think can help.

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Madrona Venture Labs raises $11M for fifth fund as studio doubles down on AI startups

GeekWire

By comparison, the AI2 Incubator in Seattle takes 9%. The firm recently announced that it hired Kelci Zile — who worked for more than three years as a sustainability leader at Amazon Web Services — as a venture partner. Techstars , which runs an accelerator in Seattle, takes 6%. Madrona Venture Group led the financing round.

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Seattle-area counties’ experiment with on-demand, door-to-door public bus service is showing promise

GeekWire

Operating in the same manner as Uber or Lyft, riders use the Ride Pingo app to hail a 15-passenger bus to take them from their doors to an on-island destination for $2 – a fraction of a rideshare price. Company co-founder and CTO Alex Wallar was a doctoral student at MIT where he focused on optimizing vehicle distributions.