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IBM's cloud CTO: 'We're in this game to win'

Computerworld Vertical IT

IBM saw from the get-go that the cloud was going to cause a major disruption to its business. "We We knew it was a massive opportunity for IBM, but not in a way that necessarily fit our mold," said Jim Comfort, who is now CTO for IBM Cloud. Every dimension of our business model would change -- we knew that going in.".

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2023 CIO Hall of Fame inductees on building a successful IT leadership career

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, he took on the CTO role at Rodan + Fields because he “liked the appeal of being part of the product.” Srini Koushik, EVP and CTO, Rackspace Technology Rackspace Technology Koushik credits all his past positions for preparing him for where he is now and the AI role specifically. Second, be intentional.

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Truly Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools You Can Use Today

CTOvision

IBM is also investing heavily in AI, with Watson the most famous result. Most of these firms seem to be on one of two paths: Success, which will mean being acquired by Facebook, Apple, Microsoft or IBM, or failure, which will see them acquired by the same firms for their talent.

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The new class of CEOs at Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile

The Verge

Undeterred, he joined Verizon as chief technology officer in April 2017 and managed to land the CEO job 16 months later. Windows Vista is the best operating system we’ve ever conceived.”). Verizon’s reputation has always been directly tied to its reliable network and the vast coverage it provides.

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Ready…Set…Start Your Containers

CIO Business Intelligence

By Siva Sreeraman VP, CTO and Modernization Tribe Leader at Mphasis. Incompatibility and unreliability caused by configuration differences such as versions of compilers, loaders, runtime libraries, middleware, and operating systems in new environments contributed to increased project effort, cost, and timelines.

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20 Reasons Why the Internet of Things will be Big and Important

Social, Agile and Transformation

Rackspaces Human Cloud - wearable technology revolution is powered by the cloud and 82% of wearable technology users in America and 71 percent in Britain say that these cloud-powered devices enhance their lives. Android is becoming the standard operating system for the “Internet of things” Technologies.

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Defense in Depth: Protecting the Organization’s Data

CTOvision

An end-to-end encryption application available for every enterprise operation system. Takes advantage of IBM and Intel hardware encryption accelerators. Smartcrypt can be integrated with existing DLP strategies to enable sensitive information discovery and encrypted remediation. Embedded Key Management (Smartkeys). Existing PKI.

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