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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.) Last year saw a 1.2%

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

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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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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10 most difficult-to-fill IT roles — and how to address the gap

CIO Business Intelligence

As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, the demand for qualified individuals has soared,” Chan says. CIO.com’s 2023 State of the CIO survey recently zeroed in on the technology roles that IT leaders find the most difficult to fill, with cybersecurity, data science and analytics, and AI topping the list.

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Airship AI, a Seattle-area edge computing company that never raised investment, set to go public

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million in revenue through the first nine months of 2023, down nearly 40% from the year-ago period, with a net loss of $6.5 It entered 2023 with $162.9 Army Special Forces, and CTO Yanda Ma , who joined Airship in 2005. . “We’ve never lost a single customer,” he said. Airship AI reported $8.1

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