TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Outsourcing engineering has become more common in recent years, so we’re starting a new initiative to profile the software consultants who startups love to work with the most. Consultant: Appetiser Apps. Consultant: Aloa. ” Consultant: Ajmera InfoTech. Consultant: Cultum. Consultant: ManagedKube.

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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% Bob Cournoyer, senior director of data strategy, BI, and analytics at Richmond, Va.-based

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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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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To keep ahead of cybercriminals, organizations must remain agile, pivoting to embrace new strategies and technologies whenever necessary in order to outrun attacks. This is the time when many CFOs trawl through every line item in the budget, looking for potential savings. 1 That’s a number no CFO would want to ignore.

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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

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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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This siloed approach leads to suboptimal decision-making and fractured strategies. Overemphasis on tools, budgets and controls. GreenOps incorporates financial, environmental and operational metrics, ensuring a balanced strategy that aligns with broader organizational goals. Cross-functional collaboration.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

At Emburse, an expense reimbursement company, software developers use code generation tools like Github Copilot and Amazon Q Developer, which integrate directly into developer environments, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. Theyre used to automate code generation, improve code structure, and even identify potential defects.

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CTOvision

JUNE 7, 2014

Here are the details: If you’re trying to stay ahead of advanced persistent threats getting inside your network while working with shrinking budgets that impact headcount and training, then you know that defending your enterprise isn’t easy. Learn how offensive measures can support your defensive strategy. Register here.

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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.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2023

Hiring and retaining the best people with the right skills is always the best strategy to improve overall performance.” 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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CTOvision

MAY 30, 2014

Here are the details: If you’re trying to stay ahead of advanced persistent threats getting inside your network while working with shrinking budgets that impact headcount and training, then you know that defending your enterprise isn’t easy. Learn how offensive measures can support your defensive strategy. Register here.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

To get a look at how Intent tailors its approach to client needs and how the company helps clients get their products from inception to the market, we spoke with Wojciech Borkowski , its head of business development, and CTO Peter Tuszynski. Help TechCrunch find the best software consultants for startups.

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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. Here’s how.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The value of addressing cybersecurity issues through ongoing discussions is getting corporate alignment on effective and robust strategies, says Roger Albrecht, co-lead of the cybersecurity unit at technology research and advisory firm ISG. Are our systems adequately modernized for security? What would be the next steps?

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CIO

JULY 18, 2024

This on-demand approach also vastly reduces the upfront costs of buying processors and scales up or down based on workload, notes Tom Richer, a former CIO and current CEO of CloudBench, a Google Partner and CIO consultancy. “To We’ve already seen the cost of AI really start to negatively impact cloud budgets,” he says. “In

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

Generative AI has been hyped so much over the past two years that observers see an inevitable course correction ahead — one that should prompt CIOs to rethink their gen AI strategies. million to roll out, with a recurring annual budget hit of $8,000 to $11,000 per user. For example, a gen AI virtual assistant can cost $5 million to $6.5

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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.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy. You might have the CIO rolled into a different role, or you might be able to merge the CIO and CTO,” he says.

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CIO

MARCH 21, 2023

Poor planning Enterprises risk running into trouble if they lack a detailed cloud strategy. “A 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.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

Influential CIOs and other technology leaders responded with time-tested, hard-won knowledge and guidance. Check out these strategies for leading well based on decades or experience from the C-suite. We have candid discussions about anything from our enterprise strategy to how we manage work-life balance,” he says.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. We believe that smart technology still holds the biggest promise to improve our client’s operations,” he says.

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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

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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CIO

JUNE 7, 2022

Successful AI teams also include a range of people who understand the business and the problems it’s trying to solve, says Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst for AI platforms, analytics, and data management at consulting firm Omdia.

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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. Following are their most significant shared strategies for making the shift successful. Establishing technology and business owners also drives collaboration. Gary Jeter, EVP & CTO, Trust One.

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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. That helps me plan.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic. benrothke Asked about the main challenges in migrating premises-based workloads to the cloud, issues centered around planning, strategy and not moving too fast. Exceeding the planned budget.

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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. IT Leadership, IT Strategy Here they are.

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CIO

JUNE 26, 2023

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Neal Sample A transferable skill set Meyercord would certainly make that case. That has served me incredibly well.”

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

Therefore, always-lurking tech debt gets put on the backburner, says Daniel Saroff, group vice president for consulting and research at IDC. 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. It’s not a sexy subject,” he says.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2024

Using new CPUs, data centers can consolidate servers running tens of thousands of cores into less than 50 cores, says Robert Hormuth, corporate vice president of architecture and strategy in the Data Center Solutions Group at AMD. Many hardware users are prioritizing replacement.

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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.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2023

To fully capitalize on the cloud’s scalability and flexibility, most enterprises go beyond a simple lift-and-shift approach, instead injecting them with cloud-native capabilities — a strategy that sounds simple but can quickly prove complex. Select the strategy that best aligns with your goals, timeline, and resources,” Csonka advises.

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