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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO

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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MoneyGram profits from mainframe move to multicloud

CIO

It has also increased top-line revenue by enabling MoneyGram to execute far more transactions in the 200 nations it serves — exceeding the volume of business its infrastructure could handle in the past, says CTO Joe Vaughan. “We The answer was the elasticity of the cloud. We were able to ramp up on the technology side.”

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Metrist raises $5.5M to provide better cloud service outage data

TechCrunch

On the technical side, Metrist uses either an agent or eBPF to gather data about the services a company runs, but it also constantly checks for downtime and service degradations from 21 different cloud regions across AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. ” Metrist team.

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7 tough IT security discussions every IT leader must have

CIO

The value of addressing cybersecurity issues through ongoing discussions is getting corporate alignment on effective and robust strategies, says Roger Albrecht, co-lead of the cybersecurity unit at technology research and advisory firm ISG. Are our systems adequately modernized for security?

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. The authors state that the target audience is technical people and, second, business people who work with technical people. Nevertheless, I strongly agree.

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Software Architect Role, Skills, and Impact on Product Success

Altexsoft

There are dozens of definitions for a software or technical architect, but in most general terms a person holding this position drives all critical decisions about the organization of the software system. They also make sure that their decisions are effectively communicated to both stakeholders and technical staff.

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Cloud Leaders Sound Off on Key Challenges

Tenable

When it comes to areas of investment related to deploying technology in the cloud, respondents identified serverless functions, virtual machines and containers as the top three technology types where they plan to expand adoption in the next 12 months. In which of the following areas is your risk exposure the highest?