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UK movers and shakers: New CIO and IT executive appointments

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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society announced that it has appointed Avril Chester as its new Chief Technology Officer. In her new role, Avril will have “responsibility for executive leadership of all the technology functions, including technical architecture, software development, operations and product delivery.”

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

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Still, software developers seeking to leverage graphics chips for non-graphical applications had to wrangle their calculations into a form that could be sent to the GPU as a series of instructions for either Microsoft’s DirectX graphics API or the open-source OpenGL (Open Graphics Library).

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Gen AI: Should you build or buy?

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In a pharmaceutical company, AI can accelerate drug development through the identification of key proteins, or turbocharge drug design by speeding up the ability to generate complex molecular structures. Virtually every vendor or service provider is looking for ways to build gen AI into their solutions.

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WIIT: Enabling Enterprises to Realize the Full Potential of the Cloud While Bypassing its Complexity

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Serving leaders in the energy, fashion, financial services, food, healthcare, manufacturing, media, pharmaceutical, professional services, retail, and telecommunications industries, WIIT works with organizations that have stringent business continuity needs, mission-critical applications, and crucial data security and sovereignty requirements.

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

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Leveraging expertise at software developer Palantir Technologies, Redmond’s team developed a model that consolidated and cleansed the data from those systems, then analyzed it to provide insights — and fairly sophisticated recommendations — to decision makers. “On-time On-time delivery has improved substantially,” she says.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

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Breuninger, a fashion department store chain steeped in tradition, has recognized this and relies on a self-developed e-commerce platform in the AWS Cloud. Each team acts according to the principle: "You build it, you run it" Hence, the teams are themselves responsible for the productive operation of the software.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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Dyamappa was previously director of software development for international retail at Amazon.com, and his international experience heralds Upstox’s expansion into global markets. He has over 20 years of software engineering experience in the online retail, transport and travel industries, predominantly in India and the U.S.