This week on the CIO in the Know podcast, Tim Crawford speaks with Ashwin Rangan, ICANN’s SVP of Engineering and CIO, about how the pandemic has shifted technology's role in business and society. They discuss the significance of the internet, technology's philosophical impact, trust erosion, and the necessity for bridging communication gaps in the tech sector.
Author: Tim M. Crawford
Tim Crawford is ranked as one of the top most influential CIOs. Tim is a transformational CIO with broad experience that takes a provocative, but pragmatic approach to the intersection of business and technology.
Tim has served as CIO and other senior IT leadership roles with global organizations such as Konica Minolta/ All Covered, Stanford University, Knight-Ridder, Philips Electronics and National Semiconductor. Tim is also host of the CIO In The Know podcast.
Is Zoom in trouble again and what does this mean for generative AI?
Zoom is catching quite a bit of heat in the past 24 hours over two recent changes including terms of service and return to office. If you are a Zoom customer, you will want to read this post and understand…
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How accurate is generative AI and is it enterprise ready?
It seems you can’t escape having a conversation today without the mention of generative AI. But how accurate is the information coming out of generative AI algorithms? While the origins of generative AI date back to the 1960’s, the interest…
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CIO In The Know – Is 2023 finally the start of a renaissance in cybersecurity?
Over the past several weeks, I’ve attended a few conferences where cybersecurity is making waves in new ways for enterprises. It is really refreshing to see, as cybersecurity is one place that enterprise vendors have needed to spend more time,…
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CIO In The Know – Strategizing for Q3/Q4 2023 and beyond
As we approach the half-way mark of the year, CIOs are getting ready to execute their calendar Q3 and Q4 plans. What is…and not included in those plans? Let’s talk about it. While we had hoped that the economic conditions…
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HPE’s new Alletra storage service provides holistic management and protection
Earlier this month, HPE announced their new HPE Alletra Storage MP offerings. During the announcement, CEO Antonio Neri reiterated HPE’s commitment to customers from four years ago to make everything in HPE’s portfolio available ‘as a service’ under the HPE Greenlake branding and services. The move…
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Generative AI’s top issues facing CIOs
I asked OpenAIs ChatGPT “What are the top issues facing CIOs? The results were, frankly, very interesting. They are good but in practice CIOs will find the results pedestrian and not actionable. ChatGPT Response Here is the unedited response: As I mentioned earlier,…
CIO In The Know – Stormy clouds ahead and the year of rightsizing
2023 has had quite the stormy start literally and figuratively. It will likely go down representing many things, but probably none as significant as rightsizing IT. Rightsizing is not a new IT term, nor a new function. 2023 is quickly…
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CIO In The Know – generative AI and beyond
The top discussion topic both publicly and privately for the past two weeks has been generative AI. That should come as no surprise and more on that in a minute. CIOs continue to struggle through the macroeconomic climate in a…
Is generative AI disruptive or enabling?
One of the hottest topics right now is generative AI. Many may have already experimented with ChatGPT, which is based on generative AI. McKinsey has a good article on what generative AI is and how ChatGPT fits in. In just the past…