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Walmart to hire nearly 200 in Seattle as part of expansion of its Global Tech team

GeekWire

Walmart currently has about 160 tech associates in the area and relies on a hybrid work model that is primarily virtual. Walmart is hiring right in the backyard of rival Amazon, which is based in Seattle and last year surpassed Walmart as the largest retail seller outside China. Its total headcount is 2.3

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Five areas where EA matters more than ever

CIO Business Intelligence

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) is often criticized for forcing technology choices on business users or producing software analyses no one uses. Forrester Research has identified more than 20 types of enterprise architecture roles being used by its clients.

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Innovation: 3 Key Elements for Success

CTOvision

While the usual approach would involve hiring a bunch of consultants or a system integrator to overhaul the existing systems, our customer took a different approach. For communications services, those new technologies include Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), cloud and virtualization.

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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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Top IT exec recuiters weigh in on talent trends today

CIO Business Intelligence

Two of the top executive recruiters in the CIO retained search space, Shawn Banerji and Martha Heller, joined me for the first episode of 2024 to share their insights on a range of talent-related issues, including hiring trends, hybrid work questions, and the critical skills companies are looking for at the executive level.

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Decentralizing Agendas and Decisions

Phil Windley

After doing the last four virtually, it was spectacular to be back together with everyone at the Computer History Museum. Last month was the first in-person CTO Breakfast since early 2020. CTO Breakfast is a monthly gathering of technologists in the Provo-Salt Lake City area that I've convened for almost 20 years. Thanks Kaliya!

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Securing data and talent top Indian CIOs’ concerns for FY2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Her colleague, CTO Rajaneesh R Kini, agrees. Our priorities for the year are to enhance our cybersecurity architecture using data access patterns to better understand security threats for IT and OT systems.” Flexible hours of working and virtual meetings seem to be working well. Sustainability.