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CTO Dwayne Allen on delivering transcendent business impact

CIO Business Intelligence

Equipped with experiences across a range of industries, a healthy dose of self-awareness, and a passion for learning and people, Allen is redefining the art of the possible as a strategic and innovative CTO. I’ve been in four industries, but while I was at Microsoft, I served several more — healthcare and retail, for example.

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AWS, Microsoft, Uber engineering vets raise $20M from top VCs for Seattle startup Temporal

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Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. Founded a year ago by former Uber engineers who previously worked at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, Temporal has built an open-source microservices orchestration platform that can replace ad-hoc systems currently used by developers. Temporal Photo). million.

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Tech Moves: Portland’s Act-On adds two new execs; Tanium adds public sector SVP; and more

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Gregg Ames, left, and Syed Ahmed, two recent hires at Act-On. Ahmed previously was CTO and vice president of engineering at Contiq. Sears joined HNTB, an engineering and architecture firm earlier this year as a Western Region sales officer. Act-On Photos). — Act-On , a Portland, Ore.-based Jeremy Showalter.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO Business Intelligence

“After some time, people have understood the storage needs better based on usage and preventing data extract fees.” I strike this language from all my contracts.” A self-hosted infrastructure is time-intensive, demands specialized expertise, and comes with significant expenses.”

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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Microsoft’s ‘multibillion dollar’ OpenAI investment comes with new level of secrecy

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI will continue to be a growth area for the company, driving “the next major wave of computing.” ” But Microsoft, which last week announced the layoff of 10,000 employees , isn’t saying exactly how much it’s investing, or how much of OpenAI it will own as a result.

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