TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Snehal Kundalkar is the chief technology officer at Valence. Platform/Infrastructure: Look for people who evaluate/integrate/build platforms to significantly accelerate the productivity of data and engineering teams; extract, transform, load (ETLs); warehouse infrastructures; and CI/CD frameworks for ML.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

But while the payback promised by many genAI projects is nebulous, the costs of the infrastructure to run them is finite, and too often, unacceptably high. Infrastructure-intensive or not, generative AI is on the march. IDC research finds roughly half of worldwide genAI expenditures in 2024 will go toward digital infrastructure.

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

Sonia Casado, chief transformation and AI officer at Dentsu, agrees with this distinction between technology and AI when addressing the definition of the position, which is in turn one of the keys to differentiating the role of CAIO from that of CIO or others that can be considered similar, such as CTO or CDO.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Less than a year after its $3 million seed round, San Francisco- and Africa-based fintech Pngme has snapped up another $15 million for its financial data infrastructure play. To fuel these products and user experiences, data infrastructure is needed. Pngme is hiring Lorraine Kageni Maina as the CSO and Nick Masson as the CTO.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This is true whether it’s an outdated system that’s no longer vendor-supported or infrastructure that doesn’t align with a cloud-first strategy, says Carrie Rasmussen, CIO at human resources software and services firm Dayforce. These issues often reflect a deeper problem within the IT infrastructure and can serve as early warning signs.”

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2025

Its an advanced job title, with cloud architects typically reporting to the IT director, CIO, CTO, or other technology executives. As organizations continue to implement cloud-based AI services, cloud architects will be tasked with ensuring the proper infrastructure is in place to accommodate growth.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

There are major considerations as IT leaders develop their AI strategies and evaluate the landscape of their infrastructure. This blog examines: What is considered legacy IT infrastructure? How to integrate new AI equipment with existing infrastructure. Evaluating data center design and legacy infrastructure.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the role of the CIO has transcended simply managing IT infrastructure to becoming a pivotal player in enabling business strategy. This process includes establishing core principles such as agility, scalability, security, and customer centricity.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Traditional systems often can’t support the demands of real-time processing and AI workloads,” notes Michael Morris, Vice President, Cloud, CloudOps, and Infrastructure, at SAS. Business objectives must be articulated and matched with appropriate tools, methodologies, and processes.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Some things that are measured include the number and nature of components provided, like whether they’re data sets or low-code components, and the number and types of platforms and infrastructure. IT will play more of a facilitator role, providing the underlying infrastructure, data sets, and, above all, establishing the controls.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Skepticism from IT practitioners is natural, given they will have to work out how to deploy and maintain AI agents, says Tim Armandpour, CTO at PagerDuty. Agentic AI systems often prove unpredictable, tough to troubleshoot, and challenging to mesh with older infrastructure, not to mention the compliance and security headaches they can create.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Orsini notes that it has never been more important for enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT infrastructure. Justin Giardina, CTO at 11:11 Systems, notes that the company’s dedicated compliance team is also a differentiator. And throughout all of this, we enable them to draw on the VMware assets they know and trust.“

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2025

Many companies are also hiring for infrastructure and specialized engineering roles, Thomasian says. While traditional software development remains essential, organizations are looking for candidates who have the skills to manage AI workflows, server firmware, and cloud-based infrastructures, she says.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The company was co-founded by CEO Arie Zilberstein, CTO Ron Konigsberg and VP of Product Ofir Brukner. Gem Security wants to secure your cloud infrastructure, raises $11M by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Enterprise infrastructures have expanded far beyond the traditional ones focused on company-owned and -operated data centers. As a result, for IT consultants, keeping the pulse of the technology market is essential. The IT function within organizations has become far more complex in recent years.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

It’s hydrophobic, it’s waterproof, it’s flame retardant, it’s stable up to 240 degrees Celsius,” Ryan Graves, Humble Bee’s chief technology officer, told TechCrunch. The CTO also said fashion brands have been reaching out to Humble Bee Bio. “The idea is, how do we recreate this?”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With C-suite leaders under increasing pressure to align technology with strategic objectives, many experience that roles — whether CEO, CFO or even CTO — lack the deep technical insight needed to bridge the gap between business and technology. The CTO and CIO handle IT management and technological innovation.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

Private cloud investment is increasing due to gen AI, costs, sovereignty issues, and performance requirements, but public cloud investment is also increasing because of more adoption, generative AI services, lower infrastructure footprint, access to new infrastructure, and so on, Woo says. Hidden costs of public cloud For St.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

Regardless of the driver of transformation, your companys culture, leadership, and operating practices must continuously improve to meet the demands of a globally competitive, faster-paced, and technology-enabled world with increasing security and other operational risks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

A newer entrant in the space is Nucleus , which aims to let devs spin up microservices architectures using a range of infrastructure, security and observability tools. “Nucleus is an infrastructure platform that allows you complete freedom over your code,” Drenova said. Backed by Y Combinator, Nucleus has raised $2.1

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The CTO Advisor

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

One question remains: Should enterprises pre-purchase large AI inference clusters … The post The Token Economy: The Hybrid Approach to AI Infrastructure? appeared first on The CTO Advisor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Individual investors include Attentive CEO Brian Long, Gorgias CEO Romain Lapeyre, Remote First Capital and former CTO of Product Hunt Andreas Klinger, Fast.co CEO Domm Holland and Warby Parker’s Brian Magida.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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The CTO Advisor

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, infrastructure is being pushed further up the stack thanks to increasing abstraction layers. This blog … The post The Evolution of Infrastructure in the Cloud Era appeared first on The CTO Advisor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Today, this mobile money infrastructure and reach allows startups to build upon their existing payment infrastructure to democratize access through different applications. But this doesn’t matter to the end-user, you have to make it work somehow,” said Bambi, the company’s CPO and CTO.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The UnaBiz representative said it has closed down SigFox’s loss-making entities and brought in new executives, including a chief customer officer to focus on pipeline and revenue streams, a chief operating officer to oversee operations stability and cost optimization and a chief technology officer.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Anjali Arora, chief technology officer at Perforce Software, discusses the inefficiencies in DevOps infrastructure and the role of platform engineering in addressing them. To counter this, organizations are turning to platform engineering to strike […]

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CIO

MAY 23, 2024

Oliver Schabenberger, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at analytics firm SAS, argues the edge should be the starting point for enterprise organizations. 1] What Edge Computing Means For Infrastructure And Operations Leaders (gartner.com) Click here to read the full article from HP. [1]

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer , an African tech infrastructure startup connecting businesses’ wallets, has raised a $2.1 The news comes a year after the startup raised $220,000 in pre-seed from a handful of angel investors, including Paystack CTO Ezra Olubi and Edenlife CTO Prosper Otemuyiwa. million seed round led by the Raba Partnership.

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

Too quickly people are running to AI as a solution instead of asking if its really what they want, or whether its automation or another tool thats needed instead, says Guerrier, currently serving as CTO at the charity Save the Children. data and infrastructure) needed to achieve these AI-driven outcomes.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

In the old days, maybe you have a new feature that you rolled out, and it requires more compute infrastructure, Seller says. optimize its cloud infrastructure. The cloud also enables IT leaders to innovate and roll out new services, products, and features faster, he adds. Many months after that, your IT guys got the servers installed.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

The key types of exposures, in order of prevalence, include web framework takeover, remote access services, IT and networking infrastructure, file sharing, and database exposures and vulnerabilities. The attack landscape has evolved to target critical infrastructure. To learn more, visit us here.

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Modern CTO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! He works directly with clients to design strategies that combine NetOps, Infrastructure, and AIOps technologies from multiple solution vendors using a proprietary methodology that results in an accurate indicator of the customer experience by business service and workflow.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

million in two rounds and the company will use the investment to expand its data infrastructure across Nigeria. . So far, these regulators appear not to be concerned with the activities of API fintech infrastructure startups. In total, Okra has raised $4.5 But will they be prepared to deal with the situation should that change?

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. Tim Beerman, CTO at IT services company Ensono, takes a RAG approach to gen AI and theres not a lot of people out there with years of RAG database experience, he says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As competition heats up among cloud service providers, especially on the generative AI front, Oracle is focusing its energies on providing IT infrastructure that can help developers and enterprises take advantage of generative AI in their operations.

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