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 8, 2025

As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. For example, Mosaic recently created a data-heavy Mosaic GPT safety model for mining operations on Microsofts Bing platform, and is about to roll that out in a pilot.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As technologies evolve, CIOs still need to build mutual commitment and support for IT initiatives,” says tech consultant and author Gerald Leonard. After all, you can tell them to use Microsoft Teams, but they may not listen if WhatsApp is more suitable.” Otherwise, you’ll suggest solutions they’ll never adopt,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Pay-as-you-go pricing is a way to reduce financial risk by not locking into long-term contracts. Adnan Masood, chief AI Architect at UST, says unpredictable pricing makes it tough even for CFOs to manage AI spending. For example, Microsoft this week introduced consumption-based pricing for Copilot Chat. This is largely the No.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Vipin Jain, founder and chief architect of Transformation Enablers Inc. brings over 30 years of experience crafting execution-ready IT strategies and transformation roadmaps aligned with business goals while leveraging emerging technologies like AI. federal agencies. He is currently a senior advisor at WVE.

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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

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. In the current quarter we expect our Cerner Health business to be awarded two large new contracts with a total value of over $1 billion,” Ellison added. Generative AI, Oracle

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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

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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APRIL 7, 2014

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2024

But the entire process will need to be reinvented in order to make full use of the technology, says Monteiro. Theres too much attention on AI for code development, which is actually just a fraction of the whole software development process. Microsoft cant make a custom version just for me.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Sivam brings a deep and varied background in technology to the role. For nearly a decade he worked at Intellectual Ventures, an investment firm led by former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold that has helped create more than a dozen startups. Dhileep Sivam is leading the Tacoma, Wash., Aquagga has raised $1.1

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

“Today’s CIOs inherit highly customized ERPs and struggle to lead change management efforts, especially with systems that [are the] backbone of all the enterprise’s operations,” wrote Isaac Sacolick, founder and president of StarCIO, a digital transformation consultancy, in a recent blog post.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Another organization using Microsoft Copilot for productivity is Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Its accelerating the learning process, improving research, and helping students with assessments, says Mike Matthews, the universitys VP for innovation and technology. Youve got that down to a science, he says.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

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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. She was most recently chief communications officer at police body camera giant Axon, and previously worked for Tesla in investor relations. — Anna Olson.

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GeekWire

MAY 6, 2024

(GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Docusign announced an agreement to acquire Lexion for $165 million, signaling plans to integrate the Seattle-based company’s AI-powered contract management technology into its Intelligent Agreement Management Platform. Lexion has more than 100 employees, according to LinkedIn.

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GeekWire

MAY 13, 2020

Anu Engineer, CTO (left), and Mahesh Unnikrishnan, CPO, just joined SirionLabs. The company announced a $44 million investment Wednesday that will help it establish a new Seattle-area technology center led by veterans of Google, Cloudera, and more. The 8-year-old contract management software startup originally launched out of India.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

The CrowdStrike outage: A wake-up call CrowdStrike’s global outage disrupted services for numerous Microsoft clients, highlighting the far-reaching impact that a single point of failure can have on businesses. The BIA process involves evaluating various threat scenarios, including the failure of key third-party services like Microsoft Azure.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2024

GitHub first launched its copilot in 2021 , and Microsoft 365 Copilot became generally available a few months ago. Many employees want to experiment with AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot, while CIOs are under pressure from their CEOs to realign digital transformation priorities and deliver business value with generative AI capabilities.

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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

These AI service providers include CoreWeave, Equinix, Digital Realty, and Paperspace, as well as GPU leader Nvidia and, to an extent, cloud hyperscalers Microsoft, Google, and AWS. Students at OpenCV University and an AI consultancy spinoff, for instance, use RunPod to train AI models, says Satya Mallick, Ph.D. and CEO of OpenCV.org.

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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). based Behavox as its first chief product officer.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

(LinkedIn Photo) — Kristina Behr , a former exec at Microsoft, joined Google as vice president of product management for collaboration and apps at Google Workspace. Behr spent 17 years at Microsoft, most recently as a vice president of product for Microsoft Teams. as well as its global portfolio.

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GeekWire

MARCH 20, 2023

(Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Bahadur was previously chief technology officer at freelancing platform Upwork and a general manager for Alexa at Amazon.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. Legal indemnification is a common feature of gen AI contracts from OpenAI, Microsoft, Adobe, and other major vendors. To solve the problem, the company turned to gen AI and decided to use both commercial and open source models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

The report for Q3 of fiscal 2024, released yesterday, said that Oracle had signed multiple large-scale cloud infrastructure contracts in the previous three months, with no end in sight, as CEO Safra Catz touted the company’s bright prospects in cloud. “We

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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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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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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The Verizon only DROID MAXX is quite a nice device, but their insistence on selling it for $299 (on contract) gives me pause. This logjam makes it impossible to feel comfortable suggesting any device purchases, maybe except the 16 GB Nexus 4 (now on sale for $250 without contract ). Android CTO Gadgets iOS Mobile'

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2024

Jim Loter, a longtime tech leader inside the city of Seattle, currently serves as interim chief technology officer. We brought in some folks from Microsoft and we consulted with folks from Adobe and from AWS to give us their perspectives on what was emerging.

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