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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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

The research, conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC) and commissioned by SUSE surveyed 838 respondents in 11 Asia/Pacific countries across a range of industries such as financial services and insurance, telecommunications, and government. When it comes to container-related technologies, only 30% are using OSS.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

The remote work revolution has pushed companies to rethink their security and data protection practices amidst hybrid work and cloud environments. Cloud is the dominant attack surface through which these critical exposures are accessed, due to its operational efficiency and pervasiveness across industries. To learn more, visit us here.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

There is a promising surge in the use of AI technologies across various industries. This transition has propelled AI and machine learning to the forefront, with 51% of CIOs identifying these technologies as among their most urgent priorities, alongside cybersecurity, highlighting their crucial role in driving organizational success.

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CIO

MAY 24, 2024

PE investors have begun to realize they can achieve better returns with strong and empowered CIOs at portfolio companies, says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, a managed services provider focused on the private equity market. Every aspect of the business is dependent on some type of technology.”

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

Now that organizations have returned to a new (somewhat) normal, CIOs appear to be focused on getting back to basics — and untangling tech debt incurred in making it through the past few years. Recruiting, retainment, and yes, adoption of lead-edge technology, are back on the radar of IT leaders. How do we get the talent we need?

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CIO

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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CEO Tech Tips

JULY 25, 2021

M&A mergers and acquisitions typically involve a significant amount of due diligence including what obligations it is assuming, the nature and extent of the seller’s contingent liabilities, problematic contracts, litigation risks, intellectual property issues, and much more. What technology in-licenses does the seller have?

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2022

Traditionally, to integrate its acquisitions, Koch would flatten the acquired company’s core network, says Matt Hoag, CTO of business solutions at Koch. Matt Hoag, CTO of business solutions, Koch Industries Koch Industries. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says. Hoag brought in Alkira to help tackle the challenge.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. Last June, for example, Dun & Bradstreet launched D&B.AI

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

Yet the leading tech execs who make up CIO’s 2023 CIO Hall of Fame share many of the same attributes, attitudes, and ambitions. For example, most say they love both technology and problem-solving — a combination that often got them interested in the IT profession in the first place. Second, be intentional.

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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. Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? What special data, content, APIs, etc., What is different, special here?

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CIO

DECEMBER 29, 2023

With the merging of operational efficiency and embracing new technologies, today’s CIOs are under increasing pressure to do more with less and become both technologists and business leaders, says Sunny Azadeh, CIO at digital services company GlobalLogic. “In

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CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

The past year was rough for the tech industry, with several companies reporting layoffs and the looming threat of a recession. But despite the bumpy year, demand for technology skills remains strong, with the US tech unemployment rate dropping to 1.5% as of January. Average salary : US$155,934 Increase from 2021 : n/a 3.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

While you may have planned or negotiated an exit, very often such departures are beyond your direct control, due to a leadership change, acquisition, or another strategic event. Never pass up the opportunity to have a conversation with someone, regardless of their level or area of expertise,” suggests Kevin Miller, CTO of IFS North America.

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CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. How enterprises gather, store, cleanse, access, and secure their data can be a major factor in their ability to meet corporate goals. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

PullRequest , a five year old startup that came out of Y Combinator in 2017 , helps software developers by providing an external code review team. PullRequest expands that capability by having a group of qualified code reviewers on call, who can detect a bug even before it gets into production. All 12 employees have moved to HackerOne.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. We’ve seen 10 to 15% increases across the board for two years in a row,” says CTO and chief transformation officer Richard Wiedenbeck.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

When I last dedicated an episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast to the state of tech talent, we were just coming out of a multi-year “sellers” market, and we could sense that we were hitting an inflection point. Fast-forward a year and things have changed significantly. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Kaiko Systems, which Fussek founded in 2020 with Eddy del Valle, the former CTO of freight-forwarding unicorn Sennder , provides a smartphone-based tool for front-line workers and inspectors to collect operational data onboard. “Shipping companies finally made their long-overdue investment in digitization,” said Fussek.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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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. Delayed decision-making Bhadresh Patel, chief digital officer at global consulting firm RGP, sees organization’s showing more caution than usual.

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CIO

JULY 4, 2023

If you don’t join board meetings often, preparation is paramount, starting with learning about the directors’ backgrounds and reviewing minutes from previous meetings. Be prepared to answer common board questions about cyber readiness, technology roadmaps, and plans to hire and retain a diverse team.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Digital technology is infiltrating our business in ways we never thought of ourselves,’’ he says. So it is imperative the C-suite have digital literacy” not only to protect and enhance the customer value proposition but to understand new technologies and how they can be applied in their business. The payoff can be significant. “We

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CTOvision

MARCH 14, 2017

Cooley is an international law firm recognized for its technology practice and experience in multiple practice areas, including Mergers and Acquisition (the firm has handled over 1,000 M&A transactions since 2010). Specialists with substantive knowledge are now often brought in to perform detailed diligence in these technical areas.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Helen Egger based on the idea that the children’s mental health crisis can only be addressed by treating the whole family through accessible and scalable precision technology. “We will be investing heavily in building our state-of-the-art tech and data platform,” Little Otter CEO Rebecca Egger told TechCrunch in an email.

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CIO

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A complex mix of macroeconomic instability, technological advancements, and digital disruption has businesses in search of IT leaders who can rise to the occasion and turn what could be intractable challenges into business opportunities. Phipps says CIOs of the past were like plumbers who ensured data ran through pipes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The need for data observability, or the ability to understand, diagnose and orchestrate data health across various IT tools, continues to grow as organizations adopt more apps and services. Other observability vendors with substantial backing behind them include Manta , Observe , Better Stack , Coralogix and Unravel Data.

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CIO

JULY 26, 2022

The PGA of America is building a world-class resort with multiple golf courses and retail shops near Dallas, due to be complete next year. Many of these next-generation projects are on track due to the organization’s decision to go all-in to the public cloud well before the pandemic hit.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Increasingly, conversations about big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence are going hand-in-hand with conversations about privacy and data protection. They could see that the longer-term issue would be a growing need and priority for data privacy. “But now we are running into the bottleneck of the data. .

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

But for a select few, the deeper challenges of departmental technologies being funded, procured, and managed without IT involvement are the missed opportunities to better engage and fulfill departmental technology needs. That’s not to downplay the inherent risks of shadow IT.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Most organizations understand the profound impact that data is having on modern business. In Foundry’s 2022 Data & Analytics Study , 88% of IT decision-makers agree that data collection and analysis have the potential to fundamentally change their business models over the next three years. Customers have too many options.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The API-based tool, dubbed Grow, has so far been integrated with 22 tech entities across Africa including Topship, Barter by Flutterwave, Float, Fingo and Payhippo, enabling them to either bundle their main products with insurance packages or offer insurance as a standalone service. without the outsized market of South Africa.

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CIO

DECEMBER 27, 2023

So business technology leaders in financial services are carefully navigating a path toward AI. AI dominates discourse and headlines, but financial services technology leaders know there’s a lot of substance amid the noise. We’re seeing how fast this technology is maturing, so it’ll have a very different hype cycle.”

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road. But early returns indicate the technology can provide benefits for the process of creating and enhancing applications, with caveats.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 26, 2022

That got me curious enough to reach out to my old friends at Crunchbase to get some data on just how much fintech startups have raised in recent weeks. Here is what the data showed: Globally, funding was up very slightly in terms of dollars raised, but deal volume was down significantly last week compared to the weeks prior.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2023

The market for technology talent has been white hot over the past year. The four of us had a wide-ranging conversation about the broader environment and how it’s affecting the role of technology leaders. The four of us had a wide-ranging conversation about the broader environment and how it’s affecting the role of technology leaders.

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