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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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The skills and traits of elite CTOs

CIO Business Intelligence

They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring. To perform the job optimally in today’s fast-changing and unpredictable environment, CTOs must possess the right mix of skills and inclinations.

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

The five finalists for CEO of the Year in the 2023 GeekWire Awards are taking on a broad and important range of challenges: workplace equity; machine learning and AI creation; identification and tracking; immigration application processes; and fending off bots. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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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.

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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

The good news is that, for managers, the best time to attract and retain talent is during economic downturns. Hiring and retaining the best people with the right skills is always the best strategy to improve overall performance.” “We need to improve overall performance while we adapt to the changing business environment,” Liu says.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

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. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud.

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IT leaders explore footing amid shifting needs and the AI power struggle

CIO Business Intelligence

While 2023 brought on many changes to IT departments around the world, by far the biggest surprise was generative AI. But hallucinations, lack of explainability, and regulatory nervousness quickly became barriers to many practical applications. A range of priorities But AI wasn’t the only thing on the minds of CIOs in 2023.

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