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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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Tech Moves: Graham & Walker exec joins Seattle Storm; Union Bay founder lands new role

GeekWire

Titcomb, a Seattle native, began her career as part of a family-run apparel business that uses eco-friendly bamboo material. The longtime software engineer most recently was CTO at Fusebit, a Seattle-based startup he founded that helps developers with software integration capabilities. She’ll remain a venture partner at the firm.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

The AWS Cloud now operates in 40 Availability Zones within 15 geographic regions around the world, with seven more Availability Zones and three more regions coming online in China, France, and the U.K. To increase online readership, it worked with AWS Partner Network (APN) Partner ClearScale to develop a personal recommendation capability.

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3 certification tips for IT leaders looking to get ahead

CIO Business Intelligence

Typically, CIOs consider certifications as a means for training up IT staff on vital skills around key initiatives such as cybersecurity, data analytics, AI, or the cloud. As a result, they procure solutions off-the-shelf rather than developing them in-house. However, most CIOs have failed to keep pace with fast-changing technology.

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Top 7 Benefits of Mobile First Content for Your Sales Team

Kitaboo

Top 7 Benefits of Developing Mobile-first Content for Your Sales Team - Quick Access to Content Make a Sales Pitch Anywhere Immediate Access to the Latest Information Provide an Augmented Experience On the Go Training Quick Response Time Track the Goals of your Employees 1.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

” That warning, so obvious today, was a blunt wake-up call 20 years ago for many of the software developers reading the book Writing Secure Code, by Microsoft security engineering leaders Michael Howard and David LeBlanc. It is a multi-cloud, multi-platform world,” Nadella said. Microsoft Photo). Bill Gates was one.

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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

CIO Business Intelligence

Brian Ferris, chief data, analytics, and technology officer, Loyalty NZ Brian Ferris / Loyalty NZ Assumptions about technology development being at the same level in different countries, for example, often prove wrong. Similarly, CLP had a lot of custom development for its transmission and distribution business.

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