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Tech Moves: Providence leader returns to Amazon; Seattle marketing vet joins LiveRamp; and more

GeekWire

. — Jessica Shapiro will join LiveRamp as its chief marketing officer. Shapiro is marketing veteran, previously working in leadership roles at companies including Microsoft, Starbucks, Zulily, and SAP Concur. She was most recently a vice president at Bellevue, Wash.-based based startup Icertis.

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IBM Hybrid Cloud Debate: Experts debate: Are Hybrid Clouds the End All Be All?

Cloud Musings

The IBM Experts Debate starts at 11:00 am EST on March 11, 2014 at IBM’s Virtual Event Center. The virtual doors open at 10:45 am EST. Participating in the debate is: Kevin Jackson, Steve Strutt and Laura DiDio. Laura has 20 years of experience in the high technology industry. It is an event you do not want to miss.

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How Pick n Pay’s migration to the cloud is paying off

CIO Business Intelligence

Critical to the success of the migration was AWS premier consulting partner Lemongrass, which enabled Pick n Pay to migrate its mission-critical SAP (including SAP S/4HANA) and non-SAP workloads to AWS, and provide the ability to manage these workloads with the highest levels of automation and agility.

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How a cloud-first enterprise application strategy boosts speed and scale for your business

CIO Business Intelligence

“The ability to securely store, prioritize, analyze, share, and scale data is fundamental to operations,” says Chuck Brooks (@ChuckDBrooks) , president of Brooks Consulting International and an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University. Nichol (@PeterBNichol) , chief technology officer at OROCA Innovations.

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What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Gartner: After acquiring The Meta Group in 2005, Gartner established best practices for EAP and adapted them into the company’s general consulting practices. Enterprise architects often go on to work as a CTO, software engineering or development director, or CIO. Virtualization Council Master Infrastructure Architect certification.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

In the text below, I examine an on-premise Hadoop ecosystem as a general purpose Big Data solution in relation to alternative commercial purpose-built storage technologies (-e.g. Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). As well, the more data you have, the more physical or virtual compute resources you may need.

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Generative AI copilots: What’s hype and where to drive results

CIO Business Intelligence

Many other platforms, such as Coveo’s Relative Generative Answering , Quickbase AI , and LaunchDarkly’s Product Experimentation , have embedded virtual assistant capabilities but don’t brand them copilots.