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Uncommon Thinkers: MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith geeks out over electric aviation

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MagniX’s chief technology officer, Riona Armesmith, works on electric propulsion systems like the one in the background at the company’s headquarters in Everett, Wash. “It was a big program with a big budget, with a big partnership with Airbus and Siemens and various other suppliers,” she recalls.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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March 2022. He joins the Indian beverage company after a 17-year stint at Wockhardt where he was associate vice president of information technology head. February 2022. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023. This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says. growth in 2022, according to Gartner.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

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Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. in June, 2022, to 3.7% in June, 2022, to 3.7% McKee, tech founder and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies, acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

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To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations

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A 2022 survey of 850 IT leaders by Foundry found more than two-thirds were accelerating their cloud migration and nearly three-quarters (72%) were defaulting to cloud-based services for upgrades or new IT purchases. Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic.

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Aligning security and business strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

This is the time when many CFOs trawl through every line item in the budget, looking for potential savings. This can be a challenge to cyber budgets in organizations where security is viewed primarily as a cost center. Cyber budgets must be spent wisely, often without increasing costs or targeting the most likely risks.