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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

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. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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The skills and traits of elite CTOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

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Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. Muppirala was most recently CTO and president of digital innovation at retailer Restoration Hardware, now know as RH. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo).

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7012 Regs and Cyber insurance on collision course with small business

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In the second part of this article, we’ll look at why implementation, compliance, and risk transference strategies are on a collision course with private cyber insurance, with the critical functionality providers (that’s you) wedged in the middle. We’ll start by peeling back the onion layers around the regulations themselves.

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IT leaders get creative to fill data science gaps

CIO Business Intelligence

For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. To deal with this hiring problem, they’ve had to get creative.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

Of course, CIOs can’t ignore or delay seizing on such advances, even if doing so would enable them to hit goals they and their executive colleagues previously had established, Taglienti says. Ryan Downing, CIO of enterprise business solutions at Principal Financial Group, saw how this challenge impacted his organization.