CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

It’s among CIOs’ most persistent and underdiscussed challenges: embracing innovative technologies without losing sight of mounting — and potentially crippling — technical debt. Therefore, always-lurking tech debt gets put on the backburner, says Daniel Saroff, group vice president for consulting and research at IDC.

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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. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Two ERP deployments in seven years is not for the faint of heart,” admits Dave Shannon, CIO of the hardware distribution firm. The company wanted to leverage all the benefits the cloud could bring, get out of the business of managing hardware and software, and not have to deal with all the complexities around security, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

This on-demand approach also vastly reduces the upfront costs of buying processors and scales up or down based on workload, notes Tom Richer, a former CIO and current CEO of CloudBench, a Google Partner and CIO consultancy. “To RunPod is a GPU-as-a-service for developers that is very cost effective for universities and startups.

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CTOvision

JULY 29, 2013

” “The suppliers will provide a centralized way for government agencies to procure hardware, software and consulting services for continuous monitoring and real-time threat detection.” ” The size and import of a hub such as this one should create a very interesting bidding and proposal process.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

But for Rob Clark, president and CTO of AI developer Seekr, such questions are business-critical. We really began last year looking at what it would really take in terms of hardware to scale our business,” Clark says. “We We were looking for like-minded, leading-edge, AI-focused hardware at the same time.” Clark says.

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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 AI networking is another area Kyndryl is targeting. “AI

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

One of the newer technologies gaining ground in data centers today is the Data Processing Unit (DPU). As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2013

If you have a commercial software/hardware product and believe it would solve a federal mission problem, (dual-use technology) invest in an expert to confirm your suspicions or those of your investors. There are many former government officials who now run successful consultancies. Rather, retain a SME for at least 3 months.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

“A pragmatic and structured architectural approach when moving to the cloud is critical,” says William Peldzus, senior director and Center of Excellence head with enterprise consulting firm Capgemini Americas. He notes that multiyear contracts can lock unwary clients into expensive, inflexible consumption models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2022

Sovereignty means having true control from A to Z – from the physical hardware and services that are located here in the Netherlands, to the engineers operating workloads, and everything that is under their orchestration and management. Our customers can consult with one of our engineers within minutes on any day and at any time,” he says.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2014

But a visionary on the team recognized that by applying technologies from modern software and cloud systems development, they could turn this asset into a competitive advantage. While the usual approach would involve hiring a bunch of consultants or a system integrator to overhaul the existing systems, our customer took a different approach.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Configurability in cloud-first strategies is key as organizations don’t have to worry about hardware control, allowing for more focus on getting new services up and running faster,” he says. Nichol (@PeterBNichol) , chief technology officer at OROCA Innovations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

After taking a hard look at their physical operations and staff capabilities as well as the fine print of cloud contracts, some are coming up with strategies that are delivering positive return on investment. The LLM work started in a London office building, which was soon outgrown by the infrastructure demands of generative AI. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

It’s likely that some computing hardware may enable power densities exceeding 100 kW/rack and the peak density in the data center could reach 150 kW/rack over the next couple of years. Liquid cooling is not appropriate for all hardware or every scenario. Traditional workloads tend to be in the range of 5-8 kW per rack.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2024

LoRa, Sigfox, and other existing IoT networks are still the best option for a lot of enterprise needs — and at significantly lower cost,” says Jeremy Prince, IoT consultant and former president of France-based Sigfox. million sensors in Japan based on a combination of Sigfox and LTE-M,” says Alexis Susset, group CTO of UnaBiz.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Thomas Phelps, CIO and SVP of corporate strategy at Laserfiche, says cloud contracts typically include several “gotchas” that IT leaders and procurement chiefs should be aware of, and he stresses the importance of studying terms of use before signing. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

By far the fastest approach is to lift and shift the whole environment, says Matthew Hon, CTO for public sector at technology services company Fujitsu Americas, as rewriting applications for the cloud could take more than two years to complete. Cloud-native is much more than just technology,” Rubina says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“Very often, IT teams don’t consider other, non-IT, activities that can affect their user base and their ability to collaborate,” says Seth Lively, US digital lead at IT consulting firm PA Consulting. It occurs as a combination of things, such as hardware, software, and labor pricing.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 15, 2023

million contract from the U.S. The newly announced seed funding round was led by Hyperplane, with participation from Riot Ventures, Ravelin Capital and John Capodilupo, former chief technology officer and co-founder of Whoop. An artist’s conception shows the Space Systems Command’s SpaceDEN facility.

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. The former head of engineering and science at Amazon Web Services Health Jean-Olivier Racine joined Outset Medical as its chief technology officer. Read the story. Tim Collins (left) and Sharad Sundaresan. Gopuff Photos).

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CTOvision

APRIL 1, 2016

Memo: RealNetworks reorganizes, names new CTO. Startup Spotlight: Minima helps companies manage data, reduce hardware spend. NASA Awards Spacecraft Avionics Development Contract. UCF partners with MIT in major federal high-tech research - Orlando Sentinel. Annual Race for Tech Visas Is Under Way - Wall Street Journal.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But once the kinks are ironed out, third-party consultants will be able to put together an accurate picture that traces carbon emissions across supply chains. The big consulting firms already have their eyes on what this can do for their businesses. The large hardware vendors usually have the numbers readily available.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Shanahan , previously chief operating and innovation officer at Globys, a software company offering digital billing products. Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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GeekWire

JUNE 24, 2021

“This is the first satellite LeoStella has delivered to a customer other than BlackSky,” Brian Rider, LeoStella’s chief technology officer, told GeekWire in an email. Inside the satellite factory: How LeoStella uses software to track spacecraft hardware. for satellite design and assembly. .”

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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%. With 2025 IT spend forecast to cross $6 trillion , there is much for both business and technology to plan for. Digital twins are getting built and born in the enterprise without any CIO facilitation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 1, 2023

They also expect to benefit from the expertise of cloud providers—expertise that isn’t easy for companies to develop and maintain in house, unless your company happens to be a technology provider. Why buy real estate and hardware and pay extra salaries only to save a small amount? asks Sample, rhetorically. “Do million in 2017).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

UiPath also recently promoted Munil Shaw from senior vice president of engineering to chief technology officer of cloud. She was previously a self-employed educational management and curriculum development consultant and a vice president of business development at The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The move was announced by Oculus’ consulting CTO John Carmack , who stepped down from his full-time role as CTO in 2019 to focus on his work as an independent AI researcher. Facebook is unlocking the bootloader of its discontinued Oculus Go headset and giving users full root access. The Go was officially discontinued in 2020.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

and Cisco’s Unified Data Center technologies, it’s aimed at enterprise hybrid needs. Businesses are looking to migrate applications hosted on-premise into the cloud using a variety of hybrid solutions,” said Andrew Higginbotham, chief technology officer at Savvis. Built on VMWare vCloud Director 5.1

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2024

(FarmHQ Photo) New name, new funding: CODA Farm Technologies, an agtech company founded by two brothers with farming roots, has changed its name and landed some cash. The startup, based north of Seattle, has raised a $750,000 seed round and is now FarmHQ , which is also the name of its irrigation hardware and software platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2022

By Reed Peterson, Field CTO, Telecom, DataStax. We transitioned from batch processing to streaming and in doing so have been able to reduce our data services hardware budget by more than 30%. DataStax is one of the core technologies that helped us achieve that goal. Efficiency, speed, growth, and excellent user experiences.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

Three top Magic Leap executives — chief technology officer Paul Greco, chief operating officer Henk Vlietstra, and chief patent officer David Lundmark — are reportedly leaving in the coming months. Photo by James Bareham / The Verge.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A fiberglass cover will protect the hardware. Building an ‘anti-boat ‘ Tim Mundon, Oscilla Power’s chief technology officer, explains a prototype device, which has a float at the top connected at three points to a heavy, ring-shaped sea anchor. In the U.S.,

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CTOvision

MARCH 24, 2016

The Army is seeking innovative micro-cloud management solutions and plans to award innovative prototype contracts over the next three months. THE PROBLEM – The Army is expanding its distributed micro-cloud architecture, characterized by commonly abstracted and controlled hardware suites that form a vast heterogeneous dynamic resource pool.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

(Conduit Venture Labs Photo) — Seattle tech leader Lauren Sato joined Seattle hardware startup studio Conduit Venture Labs as an entrepreneur-in-residence. “Ada was at a transitional point given the dramatic contraction in the tech talent market, and I am a builder/growth stage leader,” Sato told GeekWire. Kirkland, Wash.-based

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