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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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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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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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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. Some even implemented their own virtual personal assistants (VPAs), which included at least natural language processing—and sometimes more intelligence than that.

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Elon Musk says he’ll step down as Twitter CEO. But he’s not going anywhere.

Vox

Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 11, 2023 Regardless of who replaces Musk, it’s not clear how much real power the new Twitter CEO could have. She will be starting in ~6 weeks!

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

The economy may be looking uncertain, but technology continues to drive the business and CIOs are investing big in 2023. At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. It’s not a stretch to say that across the board, CIOs are continuing to invest in some form of AI.

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The 4 most overhyped technologies in IT

CIO Business Intelligence

No one denies its transformative potential, but digital leaders say a majority of people seem to think generative AI, which Gartner recently placed at the peak of inflated expectations in its 2023 hype cycle , has more capabilities than it does — at least at this time. Consider some recent survey findings.