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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

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The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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Hiro Capital puts $2.3M into team sports tracking platform PlayerData — as does Sir Terry Leahy

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Hiro Capital has gradually been making a name for itself as an investor in the area know as “Digital Sports” or DSports for short. While the round might sound small, the area it’s going into is large and growing. He’s joined by Hayden Ball, co-founder and CTO, a firmware and cloud infrastructure expert.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

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SAP has appointed a new global head of artificial intelligence, Walter Sun, after the previous post-holder quit to found her own AI startup. Prior to that, she had worked for two decades at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI. Spoiler alert: it failed.)

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Ecco come i CIO stanno ripensando alle strategie sul cloud

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I risparmi sono troppo grandi per essere ignorati da molte aziende”, afferma David Heinemeier Hansson, sviluppatore danese di Ruby on Rails, nonché co-proprietario e CTO di 37signals, che ha completato un’uscita totale di sei mesi dal cloud lo scorso giugno [in inglese]. “Un

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IT leaders get creative to fill data science gaps

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Another 62% said they plan to hire data engineers , and 37% are looking for machine learning engineers — data analytics team members who could support data scientists. And machine learning engineers are being hired to design and build automated predictive models. It’s a team sport, for sure.”.

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CIOs grapple with the ethics of implementing AI

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What they are finding is that the line between advancing technologically and ensuring AI doesn’t result in detrimental outcomes is thin. To me, that part is still a little fuzzy, so how do I put constraints around the model … before making the choice to offer new products and services that use AI.”

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Chronosphere raises $200M at a $1B+ valuation for cloud-native monitoring, adds granular, distributed tracing to its dashboard

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Mao and co-founder Rob Skillington (CTO) founded Chronosphere on the back of early work that they started at Uber, where they built an observability platform very specific to Uber’s needs as a business. The underlying large-scale metrics storage technology they built was eventually open sourced as M3.

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