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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. based startup Lessen named Chris Bee , a former senior director of product development at Zillow, as CTO.

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Tech Moves: Former Rover CTO joins moving startup Dolly; Egencia’s CFO to depart; and more

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Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as chief technology officer. Prior to joining Rover in 2013, Porad was CTO for Cheezburger and held multiple director roles at Bellevue, Wash.-based Dolly currently has 40 full-time employees and plans to double its headcount and sales in the upcoming year.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Plan for cost savings up front Cost optimization starts with defining desired business outcomes and architecting a cost-effective solution right from the start, says Jevin Jensen, research VP, Intelligent CloudOps Market at IDC. Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. I strike this language from all my contracts.” It depends on what business model you’re in.

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Funding news: AI-fueled drug discovery startup and auto safety company raise cash

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based company leveraging artificial intelligence to help develop new small molecule drugs, has raised $3.5 Researchers are training their machine learning engines on databases of drugs and their targets to help build new or improved compounds. The tech was originally developed to protect military vehicles from missiles.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO Business Intelligence

Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research. We’ve seen 10 to 15% increases across the board for two years in a row,” says CTO and chief transformation officer Richard Wiedenbeck.

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Examining the fallout of APAC tech skills shortages

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Recent research from IDC report Enterprise Automation to Mitigate the Digital Skills Shortage found that up to 80% of organizations in the APAC region, excluding Japan, find it difficult or extremely difficult to fill vacancies in IT roles. Some of the hardest roles to fill include security, and development and data professionals.

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