CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

To fully capitalize on the cloud’s scalability and flexibility, most enterprises go beyond a simple lift-and-shift approach, instead injecting them with cloud-native capabilities — a strategy that sounds simple but can quickly prove complex. After all, as with many seemingly easy tasks, the devil is in the details.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As of today, AI development companies have signed contracts to purchase more than $4 billion of AI training capacity in Oracle’s Generation 2 cloud. The growth in total revenue was driven by the momentum in the company’s total cloud sales (IaaS and SaaS combined), which grew 30% year-on-year to $4.6 billion. billion. “And

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

Oracle’s latest financial report boasts substantial increases in revenue, net income, and earnings per share, largely thanks to cloud sales, which the company was quick to credit to the rise of AI. Despite the fact that we are opening new and expanding existing cloud data centers very, very rapidly.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

SAP is doubling the time between major releases of S/4HANA Cloud private edition from one year to two — at the same time promising to release new feature packs every six months or so to keep up the pace of innovation. It is also extending maintenance to seven years, from five today.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2017

. – December 27, 2017 — ItemMaster , the leading product content management solutions provider for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Retailers alike, announced that it has named Kishore Rajgopal as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. He also worked for Infosys, HCL Technologies and Cap Gemini Financial.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 2, 2023

This move to the cloud lays the foundation for further expansion into other cloud-based applications to deliver deeper insights and better digital services, as well as drive cost savings for the company and the consumer. We haven’t had to worry about this given it now sits in the cloud. That’s worked well for us.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2022

Fundaments, A VMware Cloud Verified partner operating from seven data centers located throughout the Netherlands, and a team of more than 50 vetted and experienced experts – all of whom are Dutch nationals – is growing rapidly. Both factors directed organizations to Fundaments. “By

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Check in on those cloud costs “Highly scalable technology combined with increasing use and increasing costs leads to runaway spending,” says Mark Troller, CIO at telecom expense management company Tangoe, which estimates that its clients overspend on cloud by as much as 40%.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. Consider the last two-plus years of business disruptions caused by the global pandemic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Those CIOs typically saw that approach as a starting point for their cloud journeys.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

The demand for cloud infrastructure combined with the rise in sales of SaaS services boosted Oracle’s fourth quarter revenue for fiscal year 2022, but the acquisition of healthcare tech company Cerner has chalked up a debt of $15.8 Total cloud revenue ( IaaS plus SaaS) for the company stood at $2.9

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Moving into the digital 2020s, enterprises are contemplating the adoption of a new generation of collaborative, composable, and cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) technologies, motivated by a stubborn pandemic, insecure supply chains, transient workforces, and other factors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. While inflation challenges have moderated in the US from a high of 9.1% in June, 2022, to 3.7%

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Daniel Duffy. Eddie Garcia. Eddie Garcia.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

Three years ago, IT leaders were squarely focused on how to adopt fledgling AI techniques and approaches into their business models in service of digital transformations that included plans for shifting some workloads to the cloud. How do we grow our business responsibly?” How do we get the talent we need?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

Long before the advent of customer data platforms (CDPs) , Kohl’s business model centered on collecting and cultivating customer data. We’ve had a homegrown customer data environment for decades,” says Paul Gaffney, CTO and supply chain officer at the $19.4 Data Science, Google Cloud Platform, Retail Industry

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Daniel Duffy. Eddie Garcia. Eddie Garcia.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2023

To that end, University of California, Riverside has launched an ambitious cloud transformation to shift from a small on-premises data center to an advanced research platform powered by Google Cloud Platform and its various service offerings. As such, migrating to the cloud alone was not part of Gunkel’s plan.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

JLL, for instance, provides facilities management services for many cloud and data center operators. At the heart of JLL’s transformation into a technology provider is the cloud infrastructure JLL built using AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure, as well as Snowflake for data storage and Azure AI and Databricks for AI models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Downing and team soon recognized their approach wasn’t adding strategic value, so they identified a preferred partner and created policies to better determine when moving to another cloud for features or functions made strategic sense. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

Plus, the implementation of cloud technology and the ability to use data at scale has markedly improved. Unlike prior chatbots and other digital point solutions, generative AI technology is transformative because it unlocks the power of unstructured data to create new content. Artificial Intelligence

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2023

As companies move into cloud maturity, mastering cloud governance will become a vital skill. Robert Ford, vice president, enterprise strategy, at CoreStack will discuss how to unlock greater cloud value. Change Management, Cloud Computing, Data and Information Security, Data Breach, IT Leadership, IT Strategy

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Anything that falls into the category of IT management tools is often cast aside, but these are the workhorses of IT,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas. What does that really mean and what does it take?

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Prioritize transparency Prioritizing transparent communication is necessary to maintain positive team morale, says Chip Kleinheksel, global SAP CTO at business consulting firm Deloitte. By emphasizing the importance of the work they do, and how it impacts the business, you can help the team feel more engaged and motivated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

“La tecnologia – si pensi, per esempio, all’IA – sta ridefinendo i modelli di business, richiedendo alle imprese di passare da un’organizzazione tecnologica alle prime armi a un assetto dirigenziale maturo e affidabile”, afferma Raj Sharma, consulting vice chair di EY Americas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2024

I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said. So here, we explore why so many IT leaders attempt to improve this sense of narrative and ability to spin tales, and how it can make a difference to the business. “For

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. Upgrading cloud infrastructure is critical for deploying broad AI initiatives more quickly, so that’s a key area where investments are being made this year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Gathering and processing data quickly enables organizations to assess options and take action faster, leading to a variety of benefits, said Elitsa Krumova ( @Eli_Krumova ), a digital consultant, thought leader and technology influencer. Nichol ( @PeterBNichol ), Chief Technology Officer at OROCA Innovations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. This is no longer true. “As Budgets are being slashed across industries, Avila notes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2023

“The anticipation and fear of the impact of generative AI in particular, and its relationship to artificial general intelligence (AGI), makes it overhyped,” says Daryl Cromer, vice president and CTO for the PCs and smart devices division at Lenovo. The number of use cases and utility values are limited, impacting the potential.

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