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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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Why smart contracts can't be fully automated

Network World

Blockchain technology has been generating excitement in the public and private sectors for the past several years for many reasons — a prominent one being support for self-executing contracts commonly referred to as smart contracts. I think it's going to take forever."

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

CIO Business Intelligence

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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DTW 2022: Vodafone Germany CIO Ulrich Irnich wants to break the IT bottleneck

TM Forum

A CSP is Running on ODA if it meets the following criteria: ODA is its default reference enterprise architecture. Running on ODA status is renewed annually through self-assessment and biannually by joint assessment with the TM Forum CTO office. The company is one of the earliest adopters of the. Open APIs.

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‘Boomerang’ CIOs: IT leaders level up by coming back

CIO Business Intelligence

These boomerang CIOs have every reason to be as successful as a more traditional external new hire, but not more so, according to Martha Hello, CEO of Heller Search Associates. Kevin Miller, CTO of the Americas, IFS IFS A little over a year later, however, Miller returned to IFS as an associate vice president and is now CTO of the Americas.

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Tech Moves: Apptentive co-founder joins Magnify; Amazon CEO picks new technical advisor

GeekWire

(Magnify Photo) — Enterprise software startup Magnify hired Mike Saffitz as its new vice president of engineering. Saffitz replaced former Magnify CTO and co-founder Jacob Sajo , who left for personal reasons and currently works as the vice president of engineering at Flexport. He also served as head of engineering at Stripe.