CIO

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% The year 2023 seems to be no different.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

If 2023 was the year of experimentation with gen AI, 2024 was when companies zeroed in on use cases and started putting pilot projects into production. Only 14% say theyre losing money, and 66% of companies plan to increase their AI investments compared to 5% that plan to decrease it. And then there are guardrail considerations.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2024

As SVP and CTO for the Boston Red Sox, Brian Shield is responsible for the strategic direction of technology, fan engagement, day-to-day IT operations, and cybersecurity in support of the team, their fans, and Fenway Sports Management. You have your full-time lineup of veteran leaders. Your very best are your all-stars.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Software consultant Andrew Drach’s two companies Callentis and Solwey demonstrate his entrepreneurial skills, but his clients also value his educational background, as we learned through TechCrunch’s survey to identify the best software consultants for startups. Why did you choose the boutique consultancy model?

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CIO

JULY 15, 2022

DTN is more than just a weather forecaster: It also offers decision-support services to companies in agriculture, energy, commodities, and the finance industry. The forecasting systems DTN had acquired were developed by different companies, on different technology stacks, with different storage, alerting systems, and visualization layers.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The company wanted to leverage all the benefits the cloud could bring, get out of the business of managing hardware and software, and not have to deal with all the complexities around security, he says. “It Epicor has a product roadmap that Allegis is banking on to enable the company to use Prophet 21 to train tasks.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The implications for cloud adoption are profound, as businesses increasingly rely on these technologies to drive digital transformation, optimize operations and gain competitive advantages. Overemphasis on tools, budgets and controls.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

The recent layoffs and hiring freezes by the big tech companies have leveled the playing field somewhat,” Hoemeke says. The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

CIOs and their IT teams have enjoyed a bump in power and prestige in recent years, as the C-suite has embraced continuous transformation, digital everything, and a host of emerging technologies — all enabled by IT. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. Zero-based budgeting can be a good approach for discretionary spending.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2024

But there are no ways around the significant premium pricing being placed on generative AI workloads because the core infrastructure necessary to train and tune generative AI models are “largely supplied by one company: Nvidia ,” IDC notes. We’ve already seen the cost of AI really start to negatively impact cloud budgets,” he says. “In

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Based in Warsaw, Poland, Intent assists a wide variety of companies with everything from product design and UX to development and deployment of connected devices. How do you assess their requirements, and what information do you need before you can share an estimated project timeline and budget?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

“Our vision is to become the ‘operating system for quality’ that companies use to improve the holistic quality of their applications, beginning with automated end-to-end testing.” Perl was previously the head of technology at home service booking platform Dispatch and the CTO of pharmacy supply chain firm Zipdrug.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software The information technology that enables scientific and commercial breakthroughs, from precision medicine to digital transformation, demonstrates tech’s boundless potential to improve our world.

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Anyway, one vendor was a company called ParAccel. AWS licensed their technology , rebranded it Redshift, and launched in 2012. It was a brilliant move by AWS, because it immediately lowered the bar for a small company to start doing analytics. Snowflake 2 is a $100B+ publicly traded company. Enter Snowflake.

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CIO

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. The challenge is finding ways to achieve these goals in an era of constricted budgets.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

And online education company Pluralsight conducted a survey of IT professionals in the US and UK and found that 74% worried AI tools will make many of their daily skills obsolete. Hopefully, the AI is taking some of those routine tasks,” says Henry Svendblad, CTO at Company Nurse, which helps companies handle workplace injuries. “I

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. 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.

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

million to roll out, with a recurring annual budget hit of $8,000 to $11,000 per user. One in three companies abandon an AI use case following the pilot stage, but that means the other two see enough promise to follow through, she notes. For example, a gen AI virtual assistant can cost $5 million to $6.5 What comes up must come down.”

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2022

More companies in every industry are adopting artificial intelligence to transform business processes. But the success of their AI initiatives depends on more than just data and technology — it’s also about having the right people on board. Domain experts can provide critical insights that will make an AI system perform its best.”.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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CIO

DECEMBER 29, 2023

With the merging of operational efficiency and embracing new technologies, today’s CIOs are under increasing pressure to do more with less and become both technologists and business leaders, says Sunny Azadeh, CIO at digital services company GlobalLogic. “In

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

In the case of Asana, capitalizing on these will require a commitment to being cost conscious, with an eye toward achieving efficiencies wherever possible, and then strategically deploying the savings that come from reevaluating the company’s operations. “We

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

Tech debt is boring Company boards and CEOs are putting pressure on CIOs to find innovative uses for AI, and the need for better cybersecurity never goes way. Therefore, always-lurking tech debt gets put on the backburner, says Daniel Saroff, group vice president for consulting and research at IDC. It’s not a sexy subject,” he says.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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CIO

MARCH 21, 2023

“A pragmatic and structured architectural approach when moving to the cloud is critical,” says William Peldzus, senior director and Center of Excellence head with enterprise consulting firm Capgemini Americas. You must ensure at the start of the project that you have a full, holistic cloud budget,” Matin advises.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Delivering on time and on budget Completing software projects in a timely manner while staying within budget is a long-time challenge of software development. On time and on budget are much easier to judge with the finger on the pulse of expectations of both the users and the developers.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

To name a few — products and services that are delivered on time and on budget, and overall IT ROI.” Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. Metrics provide a means to monitor progress.” Here they are.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

And, on the flip side, it’s just as important to be mindful of team chemistry and take action when there’s a problem, says Srini Kadiyala, CTO of OvalEdge. A well-organized meeting can help reduce isolation in technology teams, argues Megan Alarid, whose consultancy The Heightened Leaders advises executives.

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

They can also make the conversion with the higher-level management like CEO and CTO. So that company can understand the trends and technology market and make a better decision. The network architect can also work closely with upper-level management like CTO and CEO. Role of Network Architect. Role of Network Engineer.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Such conversations … should conclude with clear actions, benefits, timelines, and the budget and resources required to close gaps.” Rahul Mahna, partner and outsourced IT services leader at management consulting firm Eisner Advisory Group, believes that scenario-playing with teams and management colleagues can spur useful security insights.

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CIO

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. The uses of storytelling Storytelling can be used to persuade senior executives to release budget, plot a change in strategy, or share good and bad news.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Tony Karrer Over the past 15 years, Tony has been a part-time CTO for more than 30 startups. Most notably, he was the original CTO for eHarmony for its first four years making him partly responsible for more than 4% of the marriages every year. Tony has been bridging that gap for 15 years with companies of all shapes and sizes.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Organizations don’t want fractional allocation — people rolling on to a project and rolling off,” he explains. Establishing technology and business owners also drives collaboration. Gary Jeter, EVP & CTO, Trust One.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Our company is fully remote, so he invited me to come to his house next time I was in his city so we could discuss it face-to-face. But our company is relatively small. the FAANG companies. for most companies. Just like real Agile and real Scrum is too extreme for most companies. Lets dig in.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2024

But with finding space for new data centers becoming increasingly difficult, some experts say it’s a good time for data center operators, cloud computing providers, and companies running AI and other major workloads in house to think about replacing old hardware instead. Many hardware users are prioritizing replacement.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The use of data, analytics, AI, and machine learning has raised ethical questions regarding privacy and the development of appropriate regulations and governance frameworks to ensure AI is safe, transparent, and accountable,” says Ram Chakravarti, CTO of BMC.

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