EdTech Insight – Top IT exec recruiters weigh in on talent trends today

by EdTechMate | Jan 11, 2024 | CIO, News & Insights

speaking engagements fall off, and board and operating partner opportunities are slow to come, if ever. What can also compound the issue is that one might actually be ready to go back working again or for more pay (perhaps because of what a son or daughter may be entering college), and the CEO at the time of planned departure won’t let you subside into a less demanding role. This means the job that you may have wanted or counted on isn’t still there by the time you retire. The former CIOs who have had successful transitions and happy post-long-term-operating-executive lives I know who truly effectively navigated this exit worked substantially on this transition for the 12–18 months prior to their retirement—networking, serving on the board of a charity, community service of various types (Monte Jade or other personal board efforts), attaining an adjunct professorship. Some of these truly work, and some of these don’t. But finding a way for one’s personal brand to conform to what the business ecosystem will be impressed by to assist you in untangling oneself from the operating job-crushing or derailing abyss is/was meaningfully helpful in making this transition work.

Banerji: Columnists certainly focus on their particular areas of expertise, and the data certainly show that companies prefer to promote or from within or address internal candidates first. Sometimes, this plays against a leader who is hung up on localizing the talent bench. So if the question becomes, what is the overall short-term, pragmatic and long-term lead/follow company IT talent acquisition strategy when you’re looking offshore? Then, in the low paying times, this rotation can start to flow in a small way and ramp up as the market adjusts. To that, Oshkosh VP of Enterprise Services and COO Anu Khare would say, “I think the top line above the paragraph is terribly incorrect—its not that we want localization—but rather we will localize for language- and culturally-related reasons, but unless a locale has a strategic reason for skill-like reasons that can’t be met via a cross border talent management plan such as not being able to hire an Indian Arrow in Boulder or Los Angeles, we will prefer to locate where we live and in so doing domestically help the country live long term. More as a matter of national policy we could help make compulsory the BEST leaders lead regardless of geography if the company has strategic needs at specific locales, but I haven’t historically envisioned that. Thoughts in this vain?”

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Cloud Still Driving IT Savings, Survey Finds

Cloud computing has left its stage of early adoption and is now broadly embraced by many enterprises, albeit often in discrete, careful strategies from both a technology and cost point of view, according to the latest Stratoscale “State of Enterprise Cloud Consumption” survey. The company, which bills itself as “the cloud infrastructure company,” surveyed 1,000 IT professionals at companies that have more than 100 employees or more than $50 million in annual revenue, asking about cloud usage, costs and IT issues.

The survey showed that the cloud “was the most significant contributor to IT operational cost savings among organizations in our survey, with 80 percent saying it provided the most savings,” Stratoscale said in a statement last Thursday (Aug. 8).

Breaking that down some, the report said, “We found that, on average, 85 percent of organizations surveyed reported that the cloud had significantly reduced their costs. “Yet, even with its seemingly obvious benefits, the cloud is still being used primarily for non-mission-critical resources. More than half of all organizations surveyed cited development and testing, file storage and web and application hosting as the most critical cloud use cases within their organizations.”

In fact, a majority of respondents – 56 percent – said less than one-fifth of their cloud infrastructure is used for business critical applications.

“We believe this reflects just how wary enterprises still are of putting critical data and applications on cloud infrastructure,” Stratoscale said.

Noting that fear of vendor lock-in was one important reason and cited by 39 percent of respondents, the company said the strategic use of public cloud services might present management challenges that are largely solved by an on-premises approach.

“For example, organizations must juggle multiple tools and resources that are tailored to each public cloud silo, creating a steep learning curve and increasing the potential for errors which could waste precious resources,” Stratoscale said. “By employing an on-premises cloud solution, companies can avoid this pitfall and keep everything in one place.”

The survey pointed out that operational cost savings are key to the enterprise cloud adoption timeline, as half the survey companies are advancing to hybrid cloud and only 14 percent said they are considering public cloud use only.

“But while the cost savings using cloud are undeniable, the survey showed that a number of organizations are experiencing usage and governance challenges that sometimes make it difficult to discern where their money is going,” the company said.

Top challenges cited included:

Cost management: 32%
Performance – 31%
Day-to-day operations and maintenance – 31%

Also, “81 percent of respondents reported being challenged by shadow IT in the cloud,” Stratoscale said. “Inefficient cloud use and a lack of visibility into cloud resource usage are major contributing factors to wasted IT spend.”

The company fortified the benefits of a consistent hybrid cloud approach to solve those challenges, saying, “With a consistent and comprehensive approach to hybrid cloud, organizations can look forward to predictability and sustainability, while also avoiding lock-in to any public cloud vendor.”

More findings in the study included:

More than half of all respondents listed cost as the primary reason for moving non-business-critical items to the cloud, while agility and operational savings tied as the next highest reasons.
80 percent said the cloud had significantly reduced their costs.
The hybrid cloud is currently the dominant cloud operational model, and respondents indicated this will remain so

“Enterprises today are looking for mixed cloud environments that provide business agility and cost savings, and this survey shows just how prevalent this trend has become,” said Stratoscale CEO Ariel Maislos. “But with any major shift comes challenges, which is why 84 percent of those surveyed believe monitoring and managing how all aspects of a cloud infrastructure interact is critical for their company’s success.”

Clustering is the key to winning Amazon’s Echo Spatial Perception

The key to making Amazon Echo devices play nicely together to achieve improved spatial perception is a technique called microphone clustering, an Alexa scientist revealed. Amazon Echo is a frequently updated group of smart speakers developed by Amazon.com, and it is designed to respond to users’ voice commands with Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa, effectively providing a line of smart speakers released for different use purposes:

Amazon Echo
Amazon Echo Dot
Amazon Echo Plus
Amazon Tap and
Amazon Echo Show.

As more of the devices find their way into more households growing the demand for Alexa by consumers, running multiple Alexa devices in a household can be “as second nature as the entire home being served by one device,” Amazon Alexa Science director of applied science Ruhi Sarikaya said in an on-demand Webinar titled “Building Scalable Multi-Room Music Solutions with Alexa” that wasn’t mentioned earlier, Amazon said on Monday, June 25th, that it is rolling out several upgrades to its Beamforming and Echo Spatial Perception (ESP) technologies to enhance accuracy of “Alexa experiences” — to help the devices identify which device is closest to a user and provide better Alexa responses.

“The effective way to achieve this chaos-free exchange is to deploy them in beam formed clusters,” Sarikaya said on the Webinar. “That’s where we amplify the power of Alexa Echo devices from one device in terms of improving probable accuracy to being able to control noise signals and amplifying guidance towards the member of the household who is in control and spoken to.”

“Now you’re amplifying the desired source and attenuating and co-operatively cancelling out the ones that are not the intended source,” he said. “And that’s where beam forming comes. If we have a capability to co-operatively control signals, then we’re pretty much there. And then we bring in ESP.” ESP is being used in Amazon’s Echo Show that are released in 2017 to optimize beam selection and to focus on predicting device to answer a user case in advance to make it sound as “intuitive, as natural and as humanely desirable” for users when giving Alexa commands, Sarikaya said.

“With ESP, the logic is pretty simple,” he said. “We analyze all the files of a device that triggers and echo and extract them out and then we do speech recognition”.

Numerous Multimodal Perception (MMP) devices involve use by Amazon users such as device-to-device email support, hand-gesture control and many times physical menus, however, Sarikaya claimed Amazon has pioneered voice-response and has studied consumers’ voice input comprehension and understanding, which he said is “the most natural and most universally available non-default extension of return to have a sleep mode.” and therefore adds another layer of accuracy.

“And since it is environmentally specific, we’re running it in a direct-metric array, which means we take different sounds and then we photoreccept the signal and recover the 3D signal in hand to optimize which sounds come out of which hatch within a week’s time, as you all know after somebody repeats something loudly inadequate times, you develop the habit of ‘well everybody kind of gets fatigued for them after a month’, but with Molly the stranger,” Sarikaya said.

The webinar showed details of Amazon’s IFTTT system, home automation applications by Alexa users to control smart home appliances such as Baks About X and other yards, irrigation, door bells and most importantly the inspired capability of IoT-enabled water quality monitors developed by Seasia.

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