CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Combined with an April IDC survey that found organizations launching an average of 37 AI POCs, the September survey suggests many CIOs have been throwing the proverbial spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks, says Daniel Saroff, global vice president for consulting and research services at IDC.

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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.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“By explaining the concepts behind AI in a clear manner, the business leader can be introduced to the building blocks for AI, and the IT leader can develop an acceptable strategy,” advises Nidal Haddad, principal at business advisory firm Deloitte Consulting. Yet these topics are often foreign to most business leaders. “It

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TechEmpower CTO

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Technology has shifted from a back-office function to a core enabler of business growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. Technology decisions must be intricately linked to these broader goals rather than isolated as purely operational choices. Understanding the competitive landscape is also essential.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

Jim Chilton is an award-winning CIO who serves as the chief technology officer of Cengage Group, an innovative disruptor in the edtech space. As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company.

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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. And they really fuel a lot of our innovation as well. Your very best are your all-stars.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This surge is driven by the rapid expansion of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, both of which are reshaping industries and enabling unprecedented scalability and innovation. Leaders encourage questioning assumptions, exploring innovative ideas and pursuing groundbreaking solutions. Intellectual stimulation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

So it’s no surprise that in recent years, a flurry of startups have emerged that aim to give more people access to real estate ownership in the form of fractional shares. NFX, 83North and Viola co-led the Series A, which closed in the first quarter of this year, for the New York company. 83North and NFX co-led its seed round.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Especially with companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Salesforce and others in the news recently with announcements of agentic AI and agent creation tools and capabilities. A company that adopts agentic AI will gain competitive advantages in innovation, efficiency and responsiveness and may become more agile in operations.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. Rather they should get a part-time Acting CTO who can help close the gap.

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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. Over the years, DTN has bought up several niche data service providers, each with its own IT systems — an environment that challenged DTN IT’s ability to innovate. “We

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Your laptop breaks down, you miss a flight, or you need to call an insurance company. Have a set of principles In recent years, CIOs and the companies they work for have found several ways to leverage AI in customer support. That wasn’t entirely the case with AirHelp, according to its chief technology officer, Tim Boisvert.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

The company uses a workforce-development approach to hiring, meaning that they only hire in cohorts. Among the growing list of speakers are Rimac Automobili founder Mate Rimac , Revel Transit CEO Frank Reig , community organizer, transportation consultant and lawyer Tamika L.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

After securing $16 million in Series A funding last April, Databook , an AI-powered consultative sales intelligence company, is back, this time with $50 million in Series B funding. Databook co-founder and CEO Anand Shah said via email the company wasn’t out to raise additional capital so soon.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Angel investors like Ham Serunjogi, co-founder and CEO of Chipper Cash; Josh Jones, former co-founder and CTO, Dreamhost; and Tayo Oviosu, co-founder and CEO of Paga also participated. What it meant was that we needed to find how to allow companies to use WhatsApp, voice, SMS effectively ,” he said to TechCrunch. Playing in a $3.6

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.” One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

In a move that significantly bolsters its position in the cloud services market, IBM has announced it is acquiring HashiCorp , a multicloud infrastructure automation company, for $6.4 Our strategy at its core is about enabling companies to innovate in the cloud while providing a consistent approach to managing cloud at scale.

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CIO

APRIL 8, 2024

Interlace Health is one such entity, having named Maggie Peña as the electronic forms company’s first-ever chief experience officer. Peña has been with the company for nearly 13 years in customer-facing roles, most recently, building a customer success management team. She welcomed the challenge of decarbonizing 1.2

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Asset inventory has historically been a challenge when workforces were physically sitting in company offices and on company networks,” said Paul Baird, chief technical security officer at cloud security firm Qualys. Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Previously, the company had raised $8 million. Its customer base is made up of some of the world’s biggest companies, including two of the “Fortune 10” (the top 10 of the Fortune 500 ). It creates a win-win, allowing companies to speed innovative products and features to market while enhancing their security posture.

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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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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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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2014

By Prayson Pate When discussing innovation, most people focus on advances in technology. Technology is important, but it is only one of three key components required for innovation. In order to maximize the opportunity for successful innovation, one must combine the following: A customer problem or opportunity.

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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. The heart of generative AI lies in GPUs. and CEO of OpenCV.org.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

In part, it’s able to do this because its fridge features 4,500 superconducting “Flexlines,” as the company calls its quantum wires which transmit far less heat and vibration (the archenemies of stable quantum systems) compared to traditional cabling. Image Credits: Maybell Quantum. ” Image Credits: Maybell Quantum.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

To give us a perspective on this question, we had the opportunity to speak with Roger Hockenberry , CEO and founding partner of Cognitio , a strategic consulting and engineering firm established and managed by a team of former senior technology executives from the U.S. All three were really good, viable companies.

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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. With AI augmentation, that balance will shift away from back-end management to innovation and forward-focused projects.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

While the tranche is a fraction of the startup’s previous raise ($70 million), Mythic claims that the tranche will enable it to bring its “next-generation” product — an improved energy-efficient AI processor — to market. Mythic initially worked on projects for the U.S.

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2024

The Responsible AI Institute has launched an AI policy template designed to help enterprises develop their own company-wide responsible AI policies. AI technology adoption is already widespread,” RAI Institute said. However, responsible AI frameworks consistently lag behind the speed of innovation.

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

It’s among CIOs’ most persistent and underdiscussed challenges: embracing innovative technologies without losing sight of mounting — and potentially crippling — technical debt. 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.

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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. Data scientists may build the ML models, but its ML engineers who implement them.

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