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Backcountry modernizes for the cloud era

CIO Business Intelligence

At least that has been the experience of Backcountry CTO Sridhar Nallani, who was hired in 2020 specifically to overhaul the online retailer’s digital presence. The 3C roadmap: CDP, CMS, cloud. Undertaking a top-to-bottom modernization of a dusty enterprise stack can feel a bit like scaling a mountain.

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Tech Moves: AWS community head departing; Pfizer exec joins Truveta board; UW Medicine names CEO

GeekWire

Previously she was chief of staff for cloud advocacy at Microsoft, and a vice president at Kikbox. Freeman is the author of “DevOps for Dummies” and “97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know.” Yamamoto previously worked at Adobe, F5, SAP, Microsoft and BlackLine in marketing leadership roles.

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We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2014, I interviewed Gerri Martin-Flickinger, then CIO of Adobe, on this topic. When customers enter Adobe’s Creative Cloud, everything on their screen was developed by the Adobe product engineering team. Martin-Flickinger, who, before Adobe, was CIO of McAfee and VeriSign, became CTO of Starbucks for many years.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s Brad Anderson jumps to Qualtrics in wave of pre-IPO hires; Elena Donio joins Databricks board; Hiya, Esper add startup vets

GeekWire

.” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. Anas was previously VP of employee experience at Adobe. • Edward Chen as head of corporate development and strategy. Donio also sits on the board of cloud communications platform Twilio. Chris Emerson.

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Tech Moves: Qualtrics exec moves to Google; NHL Seattle expands team; former Amazon exec named Bluecrew CEO; and more

GeekWire

Seattle hybrid cloud storage startup Qumulo appointed Craig Bumpus as its first chief revenue officer. I see tremendous opportunity to grow and expand the business as organisations around the world look to leverage file services in the cloud and the data centre,” said Bumpus. based job marketplace for hourly workers.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

GeekWire

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

In July, for example, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions. As companies mature in their understanding and use of gen AI, they’ll have to put safeguards in place, says Juan Orlandini, CTO, North America at Insight, a Tempe-based solution integrator.