CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

We had operational teams at clients resist doing the effort for regular Chargeback/Showback reporting to development teams, only to end up with a scramble to determine the cause of spiking bills. Overemphasis on tools, budgets and controls. This siloed approach leads to suboptimal decision-making and fractured strategies.

Sustainability 156

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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. Consider the findings of a report from professional services firm Accenture.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

The announcement wasn’t a complete shock considering there were hints of trouble, as reported by The Information, the week prior. On a positive (and somewhat unusual) note, BNPL giant Affirm said it would be giving job offers to “the vast majority” of Fast engineers, as reported by the brilliant Natasha Mascarenhas.

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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.

Software Review 165

Software Review Fractional CTO Strategy Software 165

CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

“Today’s CIOs inherit highly customized ERPs and struggle to lead change management efforts, especially with systems that [are the] backbone of all the enterprise’s operations,” wrote Isaac Sacolick, founder and president of StarCIO, a digital transformation consultancy, in a recent blog post.

Systems Review 197

Systems Review Technical Review System Analytics 197

CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The September Monthly Threat Intelligence Report from cybersecurity firm NCC Group delivers plenty of reasons to worry. They’re questioning whether they’re implementing adequate safeguards and whether they’re seizing on the right opportunities to use these technologies. Recent figures do nothing to ease anxiety.

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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. That’s because customers get support along the way, including help developing a test plan, writing and maintaining tests, investigating failures, and reporting bugs.

Software Review 226

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Their report focused exclusively on financial cybercrime, including identity theft. It attributed the rise to the proliferation of new technologies in regions around the world, with many more people than ever before possessing IT skills. Any non-essential expenditure that can be cut, or postponed, will be.

Security 158

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

And it features and expo floor of the hottest technologies in the nation. I can’t wait to hit the expo floor and learn the latest and will be reporting more here for our CTOvision Pro readers. Office of Management and Budget. Independent Consultant. Independent Consultant. Chief Technology Officer.

Security 110

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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.

Technical Review 200

Technical Review Software Review Budget Fractional CTO 200

CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

According to a recent report from the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, 92% of IT jobs will be transformed by AI to a moderate or high degree. According to the consortium’s report, AI has the potential to revolutionize these roles by facilitating more efficient decision-making through data-driven insights.

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Technical Advisors Technical Review Fractional CTO CTO Coach 200

CIO

AUGUST 2, 2024

Data centers are running at near capacity in many areas of the world, according to the Global Data Center Trends 2024 report from CBRE, a real estate services firm. The 2023 CBRE report found that 83% of the data center capacity under construction at the time was presold. Many hardware users are prioritizing replacement.

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

If that customer switches their $1M/year budget to Snowflake, then about $400k 7 goes back to AWS, making AWS about $200k in gross profits. I spent six years as a CTO and moving from one cloud to another isn't something I even remotely considered. Let's say a customer is spending $1M/year on Redshift. That seems kind of bad for AWS?

Cloud 351

Cloud AWS Weak Development Team Serverless 351

CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“Very often, IT teams don’t consider other, non-IT, activities that can affect their user base and their ability to collaborate,” says Seth Lively, US digital lead at IT consulting firm PA Consulting. Confusion results when the initiative inadvertently ruins departmental synchronization.

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Weak Development Team Software Review Development Team Review Fractional CTO 200

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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Trends Strategy Enterprise Data 218

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.

Cloud 187

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

We are giving our budget and proposed projects more scrutiny to invest in areas that have clear attribution toward generated increased revenue, more efficiencies, lower costs, and improved workplace experiences,” Srivastava says. We believe that smart technology still holds the biggest promise to improve our client’s operations,” he says.

Security 200

Security Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Budget 200

CIO

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO. So we’re doubling down our efforts to increase security awareness on our team.

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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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Metrics Weak Development Team Fractional CTO Survey 210

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.

Sustainability 158

Sustainability Technical Review Fractional CTO Software Review 158

SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

So, here goes: Dr. 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 a Ph.D. He is a frequent speaker at trade and industry events.

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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

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.

Technical Advisors 183

Technical Advisors Fractional CTO Pharmaceuticals VR 183

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. Don’t view Copilot as just an extra bolt on to Office 365.

Enterprise 204

Enterprise Azure ChatGPT Open Source 204

CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

And if the initiative misses its goal, or runs over budget, the CIO’s job may be at stake. The goal isn’t to restructure with nothing remaining from what was valuable and meaningful,” says Andrew Sinclair, a managing director in consulting firm Accenture’s technology strategy and advisory practice.

Organization 164

Organization Technical Advisors Fractional CTO Technical Review 164

CIO

MAY 20, 2024

Tech services provider Logicalis found in its 2024 Global CIO Report that 89% of CIOs reported “actively seeking opportunities to incorporate AI capabilities into their companies,” making it the No. And CIOs said the need for security improvements is the top driver of IT budget increases. Other surveys offer similar findings.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Security Survey 213

CTOvision

MAY 20, 2016

Join Bob Flores, Executive Partner of Cognitio, and Junaid Islam, CTO of Vidder, Inc, at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit for their session on How to Stop Catastrophic Cyber Failure in Your Organization. Bob Flores , Executive Partner, Cognitio Corp & Former CTO of the Central Intelligence Agency, Cognitio Corp. .

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

According to our 2022 State of the CIO report, 84% of IT leaders say CIOs are increasingly seen as a changemaker and the lead on business and technology initiatives. Overlooking process and the technology itself. CIOs know it’s about people, process, and technology. Here are their top 10. Flying solo.

How To 179

How To Fractional CTO Culture Study 179

CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Such rivals can prevent you from receiving sufficient budget, successfully implementing vital business initiatives, and steering your organization in the right direction. Gold Associates, a business consulting and research firm. They must be dealt with but doing so can be tricky. Gold, president and principal analyst at J.

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

The CCSO reports to the Vice President for Network Services and will have responsibility for security across all Internet2 infrastructure programs. Consults with service owners regarding their security risks and responsibility in minimizing those risks. Click here to apply online. Internet2 is a 501.C.3

Technical Advisors 117

Technical Advisors Internet Technical Review CTO Coach 117

Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Customers will be delivered with true security issues free software.” – Eldad Assis, DevOps Architect at the CTO office at JFrog. Cloud-native security will rise higher on the agenda for CISOs as their organizations embrace Kubernetes, serverless, and other cloud-native technologies. mediation of these issues. Kubernetes.

DevOps 124

DevOps Trends Software Review Fractional CTO 124

Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Modernization through observability When OneFootball’s CTO launched a modernization initiative focused on continuous delivery observability, it was clear that the engineering team needed to evaluate their tech stack. Most engineers continued using APM and logs while ignoring traces, preventing the cultural shift the CTO was pushing for.

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Continuous Delivery Metrics Engineering Fractional CTO 59

CIO

MARCH 1, 2023

They also expect to benefit from the expertise of cloud providers—expertise that isn’t easy for companies to develop and maintain in house, unless your company happens to be a technology provider. The company reported a cost of revenue savings of nearly $75 million starting in the first two years after the transition ($39.5

Cloud 158

Cloud Weak Development Team Data Center Hardware 158

CTOvision

MAY 22, 2014

Management will study the need of information security policies and assign a budget to implement security policies. There should also be a mechanism to report any violations to the policy. How incidents are reported and investigated. Time, money, and resource mobilization are some factors that are discussed in this level.

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Policies Fractional CTO Wireless Firewall 107

The Daily WTF

AUGUST 30, 2020

The project was launched with the code name "Cold Stone", with Glenn as new CTO. New "business critical" systems were discovered under every rock, and every department in the company had a moment of, "Why weren't we consulted on this plan? This time, Glenn, the CTO was in the meeting. "This

Testing 115

Testing Fractional CTO Systems Review Software Review 115

SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

I've done four Free CTO Consulting Sessions in the past month with startup founders who all had run into variations of the same problem. A classic example might be "reporting" as a feature item. What probably will happen is to define some early reports that will have more specific estimates.

Software Development 101

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