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Conversion Capital locks down its biggest fund ever to back early-stage fintech and infrastructure startups

TechCrunch

When Christian Lawless founded Conversion Capital in 2015, fintech was only starting to take off. Lawless’ belief that infrastructure is the key to unlocking innovation in the space has been validated as infrastructure companies continue to be among the largest recipients of venture funding in the space, even in a downturn.

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

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Kirkland, a founding member of SustainabilityIT.org, an organization to drive global sustainability through technology leadership, says Choice was the first hospitality company to make a strategic commitment to developing a cloud-native and sustainable platform on AWS. All the logic is still in Java hosted on Amazon’s infrastructure.”

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Why Lacework is a Leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for CNAPP

Lacework

We’re incredibly excited to have been named a Leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP). At Lacework, we believe that one unified platform will be critical to do so successfully, and from our founding in 2015, we have pioneered the use of AI/ML for anomaly threat detection.

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Digi-Key: Creating magic with multi-cloud

CIO

About the Author Ramesh Babu, chief information officer, has been with Digi-Key since 2015, providing leadership for global vision, strategy and planning of digital technology, as well as overseeing and supporting the application development and infrastructure teams. Multi Cloud

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Toyota transforms IT service desk with gen AI

CIO

“One of my bold bets is I want to eliminate our traditional service desk by 2025,” says Jason Ballard, IT executive and general manager for infrastructure and operations services at Toyota Motor North America. Then in 2020, Ballard took leadership of the digital platform engineering team with an eye on the IT service desk. “I

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Spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware developer Bitfury, LiquidStack pitches a data center cooling tech

TechCrunch

It was first acquired by Bitfury in 2015 after building a two-phase immersion cooling 500kW data center in Hong Kong, that purportedly cut energy consumption by 95% versus traditional air cooling technologies. and research and development in Hong Kong, according to a statement. billion last year.

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Dissecting Alstom’s three-part IT strategy

CIO

Alstom builds high-speed trains, subways, monorails, and trams, but also develops turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signaling, and digital mobility. We started the digital transformation journey in 2015, and since then, we’ve focused on a strategy that was risky at first, but it’s paid off.

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