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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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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

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Of course, CIOs can’t ignore or delay seizing on such advances, even if doing so would enable them to hit goals they and their executive colleagues previously had established, Taglienti says. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. Last year saw a 1.2%

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JLL reinvents itself for the AI era

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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. Of course, JLL has only just begun to use generative AI and LLMs. Generative AI and LLMs are changing all that.

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5 steps we can take to address the cyber skills shortage

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The skills shortage creates challenges, of course. 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. But we are not the only industry with a talent gap.

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Interview: Expedia’s new leaders from Apple and Verizon hope to help travel giant bounce back

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Over the course of nearly two decades, the Seattle travel platform snatched up more than 40 companies with a combined worth of nearly $13 billion. Last week Expedia announced the hiring of Jon Gieselman , Apple’s former head of marketing for services, to help customers make sense of the online travel giant’s tangled product lineup.

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7 ways to spot hidden IT talent within your ranks

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It’s a critical characteristic because the technology we were taught in school or in a course is likely going to be retired and replaced in the very foreseeable future,” she observes. We make time for people to upskill and reskill,” he says. Spread a wide net to identify passion and a bias for action Irvin Bishop, Jr.,

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Meet the latest Techstars Seattle cohort: 10 startups on how they’ve adapted to the pandemic

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Pradyut Paul (left), CEO, and Avinash Kunaparaju (CTO) of Bild. Founders: Pradyut Paul (CEO) and Avinash Kunaparaju (CTO). Renato Vieira da Costa (left), CTO, Dmitry Litvinov, CEO, of Brite. Founders: Dmitry Litvinov (CEO) and Renato Vieira da Costa (CTO). Nick Chua (left), CEO, and Kevin Arifin (CTO) of Edith Labs.

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