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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

For many CIOs, embracing cloud point solutions has been a key facet of their strategy to get out of the data center management business. He uses external providers and in-house developers to write connective “tissue” code to provide integration capabilities. It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor.

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Has the CIO title run its course?

CIO Business Intelligence

Power’s newly minted CBTO is Marc Sule (pictured above), who previously served as CIO of apparel and promotional products company alphabroder for six years. Everything we build, create, all the technology we run in our data centers and the infrastructure, it all services the business,’’ Sule says.

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

All Things Distributed

The new Canada (Central) Region offers a robust suite of infrastructure, management, and developer services that can enable innovators to deploy market-leading applications. AWS data centers in Canada will draw from a regional electricity grid that is 99 percent powered by hydropower. Rapid time to market. Increasing agility.

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CIOs step up to fill plus-size leadership roles

CIO Business Intelligence

With a career path that wound through R&D, product development, advanced supply chain, and technology, Praveen Jonnala is well positioned to lead a global IT organization as well as take the reins of operations and other core business functions.

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Geek of the Week: Anu Sharma left Amazon for Madrona to invest in helping new businesses

GeekWire

Sharma, our latest Geek of the Week, spent eight years at Amazon and Amazon Web Services, most recently leading a product management team at AWS for a new service, AWS Outposts , which extends AWS infrastructure and services outside of AWS owned data centers to customer locations or colocation spaces.

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