CIO

AUGUST 16, 2024

Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers By Hank Rainwater If you are looking for advice on fine-tuning your approach to leading programmers, Matt Aird, CTO of Custom Neon and co-owner of Infoactive Media, recommends Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Early-stage startup marketers must walk a fine line: Everyone is free to chime in on their work, and campaign budgets for pre-revenue companies are notoriously thin. Lindsay Goldman, strategic advisor, MO Pros. Growth marketing experts survey: How would you spend a $25,000 budget in Q1 2022? Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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CIO

JUNE 13, 2024

SLMs and other traditional non-LLM AI technologies have many applications, particularly for organizations with specialized needs, says Dave Bullock, CTO at UJET, a contact-center-as-a-service provider experimenting with small language model AIs. Consumers demand expertise specificity that considers their home and location.”

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CIO

MAY 18, 2023

For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight. Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2024

Double-down on cybersecurity We are in a cybersecurity pandemic right now, warns Juan Orlandini, CTO for North America at solutions and systems integrator Insight Enterprises. This could be an in-house team or trusted advisors who can make sure you’ve done what you can to protect yourself.” Assume that attacks are inevitable.”

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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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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit.

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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

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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Founded in in 2020 by Tan and CTO Deepak Malhotra, Brick now has more than 50 paying clients and supports more than 13 million API calls and almost one million consumers a month. Tan was an early employee at Aspire, the neobank, while Malhotra was co-founder and CTO of Indian neobank Slice.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s well within the budget.” Increasingly, we’ll see AI-specialized hardware,” predicts Claus Torp Jensen, former CIO and CTO and currently a technology advisor. “On the cloud, you’re paying by the hour and you’re paying a premium.” In contrast, he asserts, “Pretty much any hospital in the US can buy four computers.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

More frequently, IT leaders are seeing the value of educating their peers and stakeholders as a win-win for increasing buy-in and budget for digital initiatives. We get consistent investment year over year,’’ says Yao Morin, CTO of global commercial estate company JLL. The payoff can be significant. “We Rizwan, CIO of Z2C Ltd.,

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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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Xebia

JUNE 5, 2024

Outside of technical firsts, I was also very lucky to have a mentor who ensured I was given great opportunities and showed me that I may have thought too highly of myself and would always have much to learn from others. Instead of coding projects, I coded automations for budget forecasting and such.

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CIO

APRIL 14, 2023

They are tools used by someone who knows how to do this themselves, who may be using them to supplement their knowledge about a technology, library, or framework they haven’t worked with before, or to avoid looking up a few lines of code on Stack Overflow.” That’s an important feature that customers can look for.”

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I received an inquiry from a reader of my blog and thought I would provide some thoughts, but would definitely welcome input: I am an unpaid CTO of a small startup. Find a lawyer and someone who does CTO searches for VC backed companies in your area. They both would have lots of thoughts and ideas. What type of shares?

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CTOvision

APRIL 12, 2017

The chief technology officer (CTO) and chief executive officer must work together for the good of the company. The CTO is responsible for focusing on technological matters, such as computers, websites and social networking. Work With the Same Advisor.

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Analysts predict the incoming phase of enterprise AI will herald agentic systems that require minimal human intervention, with 75% of CIOs increasing their AI budgets during this year alone, according to a recent report from Gartner. Others agree that increased edge processing will naturally emerge alongside the rollout of AI at large. “As

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But for Kapil Mehrotra, group CTO at National Collateral Management Services (NCMS), high turnover presented an opportunity to cut costs of the IT department, streamline its operations, and find a long-term solution to the perpetual skills scarcity problem. They used to enter office late, open their laptops at 11 a.m.,

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2024

Anil Cheriyan’s storied career spans multiple industries, including serving as EVP/CTO of strategy and technology at Cognizant, as the US Presidential Appointee in charge of Technology Transformation Services, and as Global CIO at SunTrust. Today, he develops and drives strategy as a board member, advisor, and investor.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 13, 2024

It’s a time-saver and budget-friendly way to enhance business operations, keeping the focus on core activities. First, build a robust support network by fostering relationships with mentors, peers, and industry professionals who can provide the insight and guidance you need.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I received an inquiry from a reader of my blog and thought I would provide some thoughts, but would definitely welcome input: I am an unpaid CTO of a small startup. Find a lawyer and someone who does CTO searches for VC backed companies in your area. They both would have lots of thoughts and ideas. What type of shares?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Indeed, Statista found that organizations spent around 23% of their annual IT budgets on quality assurance and testing between 2012 and 2019. Perl was previously the head of technology at home service booking platform Dispatch and the CTO of pharmacy supply chain firm Zipdrug. ” QA Wolf promises a lot.

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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

And CIOs said the need for security improvements is the top driver of IT budget increases. That attitude is reflected by Broadcom’s late 2023 acquisition of VMware, which CIOs and their advisors say has become a top area of attention for many tech execs who are now assessing the deal’s potential impacts on costs and service.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2023

“It requires engaging stakeholders across the organization, not just within IT, and having expertise in both the legacy application and the cloud you’re moving to,” says Steve Woodgate, strategic advisor at managed cloud service provider Navisite. Varerkar also advises against rebuilding an app from scratch.

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. Like anything, the hard work is the initial assessment,” says CGI director of business consulting and CIO advisor Sean Sadler.

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CIO

JUNE 26, 2023

Technology leaders need to operate with financial discipline and develop rigor for managing through influence, notes Sample. For example, tech leaders often aren’t the decision makers, rather make recommendations to business partners that own the budget while negotiating with systems integrators or other third parties.

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2024

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott compared the company’s Copilot stack to the LAMP stack of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, enabling organizations to build at scale on the internet, and there’s clear enterprise interest in building solutions with these services. It’s going to cost you a lot of money,” she says.

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CIO

AUGUST 4, 2023

Initially, I was naïve about the infrastructure space, but was fortunate to have a great mentor. We are bringing these new technologies to India too, because railways are such an integral part of the country and its economy. India’s Vande Bharat trains are powered by WABTEC’s technology.

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CIO

JULY 27, 2023

Strong peer relationships are vital for making strategic decisions, she says, pointing to her relationship with Johnson Controls CTO Vijay Sankaran. Schwarz and Sankaran work in lockstep in the digital landscape but manage different aspects of the 360-degree relationship with tech suppliers.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A senior technology executive says she was once ignored by a vendor in a sales pitch, despite being the most senior executive in the room and having the final sign-off on budget. Myself and a person I mentor both got told we were both diversity hires,” says a deputy digital director in public sector.

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Lacework

OCTOBER 23, 2023

You can do a great deal of work very early on, with very little team and budget. From the pivotal role of security in business, to the nuances of “security theater,” to the significance of laying strong foundations early on, these cybersecurity leaders covered it all.

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GreenBar

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Lifecycle Pricing When I’m budgeting a software project I think about the entire software lifecycle, my version of which I list below. A technical audit of your software is the only step that requires a technical friend, advisor, or consultant (like me) who is not your contractor.

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. Dobbs coaches his team in interviewing and does post-mortem on interviews to get the most out of this process.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2022

We spoke to a host of experts, including product managers and those who supervise, hire, and mentor them, about what you should be looking for if you’re hiring a new PM for your team. Seth Dobbs, CTO at IT services and consulting firm Bounteous, gives a pretty good thumbnail sketch of what an ideal product manager would look like.

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Blue Sentry

AUGUST 29, 2023

AWS Cost Management Tool Overview with Todd Bernson The AWS Cost Explorer AWS Cost and Usage Report AWS Resources Cloud Strategy & DevOps Services TRANSCRIPT: Hi, I’m Todd Bernson – CTO at Blue Sentry Cloud and an AWS Ambassador with 12 AWS certifications. Automating cost optimization is another principle of the cost pillar.

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