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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. for this year, resulting in a net gain of more than 300,000 new jobs. for this year, resulting in a net gain of more than 300,000 new jobs. growth rate, which resulted in about 117,000 net new hires.)

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

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Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024. The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “Any

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How this startup CEO adapted to the pandemic, economic downturn and his own fatigue

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” (GeekWire File Photo) Editor’s note: This is the first of five profiles of the finalists for Startup CEO of the Year ahead of the 2023 GeekWire Awards. ” Despite trying economic times and Kumar’s personal struggles, Humanly has pivoted and emerged stronger. “I always felt a safety net with her there.

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SAP offers faster updates, longer maintenance for S/4HANA in private clouds

CIO Business Intelligence

The changes will take effect with the 2023 release of software, which is now generally available. The good news for SAP is that many of the customers adopting its cloud-based S/4HANA offering are net-new, meaning more market share. It is also extending maintenance to seven years, from five today.

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JLL reinvents itself for the AI era

CIO Business Intelligence

We do a lot of paperwork in leasing and contracts, pages and pages of legal documents in multiple languages,” which has thus far been challenging to incorporate, the CTO says. According to JLL’s own research, so far in 2023, the range for physical occupancy compared to pre-COVID levels is between 45% to 65% in the US, for example.

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5 steps we can take to address the cyber skills shortage

CIO Business Intelligence

We have to cast a wider net. As a field CTO, I have always been conscious of providing new members of my team with both a mentor and a clearly articulated career pathway, with specific goals and targets. I’ve seen selection panels where the people doing the hiring knew less than the people they were interviewing. IT Leadership

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