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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters. Whether agile should include FinOps or not is a matter of debate,” he says.

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Tech News Roundup April 11

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Awarded $25M Contract from GSA to Provide Agile Services. Federal and State Energy Policy Leaders to Convene with Energy and Technology Executives at NEM's 19th Annual. US CTO Megan Smith highlights heritage of women in tech - CNET. CUinsight.com (press release). CSRA Leadership, April 19, 2016.

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Fed Tech Roundup November 4

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of Energy CTO, Principal. Leidos’ Robert Zitz to Tackle Cyber, Physical Risks at Eisenhower Institute’s Energy Policy Discussion. Agile training, delivered agilely - FCW.com (blog). DISA tees up new round of contracts - FCW.com. Former DOE CTO Tseronis joins Deep Water Point - FCW.com (blog).

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

Downing and team soon recognized their approach wasn’t adding strategic value, so they identified a preferred partner and created policies to better determine when moving to another cloud for features or functions made strategic sense. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. February 2022. Goel has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. Kamal Goel Web Werks.

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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies

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By far the fastest approach is to lift and shift the whole environment, says Matthew Hon, CTO for public sector at technology services company Fujitsu Americas, as rewriting applications for the cloud could take more than two years to complete. Change the organizational mindset.

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