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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Prior to joining Convoy in 2018, Kreiner was CEO of Cal Net Technology Group and a managing partner at Olympic Valley Capital.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

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“Some organizations have been innovating, transforming, and growing so fast that they haven’t had time to clear up older cost structures that start getting in the way,” says Stewart Buchanan, research vice president on Gartner’s CIO team. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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JLL reinvents itself for the AI era

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More recently, the company launched Carbon Pathfinder, an AI-driven sustainability software planning tool that is sold as SaaS or a suite with professional services. “AI The company has also issued guidelines to its software developers and business executives about how to protect client data and define what they can and cannot use.

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

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

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In 1989, the family relocated to Seattle after Kumar’s father was hired as an engineer at Boeing. “I always felt a safety net with her there. ” Microsoft, then startups The Humanly team at Y Combinator, from left, CTO Bryan Leptich, CEO Prem Kumar and COO Andrew Gardner. where Kumar was born.

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

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The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. The net result?

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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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