In previous decades there was a mismatch between information technology and its availability, which meant that influential workers only got access to information when they were chained to their desk. Today the CIO has a responsibility to fix that scenario.
There are many vertical markets that are seasonal, selling or serving the bulk of their annual turn-over in a single quarter. It is often cited by the analyst community that these markets are the ones that should be major cloud computing adopters. There is no doubting the technology argument for moving to cloud computing takes off. CIOs in seasonal, some call it peaky, markets can rent the extra technology provision they need as and when required.
Take a process in your organisation and the application that supports it. If you and the organisation call that process simple, if you call it dull, if it is a commodity and essential, then the question has to be: why not put that application into the cloud for mobile access and usage?
Although some organisations initially tried to resist the trend of employees using personal mobile devices for work, it seems that many have now accepted their inevitability. A Cisco survey of 600 IT and business leaders in the US has found that 95% of respondents said their organisations permitted employee-owned devices in the workplace.
We are all tired of people telling us to do more with less. OK, it is an inevitable part of life and of enterprise IT. It is time for a fight back, time to campaign for doing more with more.
Big Data is a big deal in many organisations. Few business unit managers would not be excited about the opportunities that near real-time business intelligence offers their department.
Sometimes it pays for CIO’s to pander to the enterprise user-base just a little. Even the most stubborn organisations have realised they can’t resist the tide of consumer devices now in the enterprise.
The benefits of cloud computing have been well-documented. By choosing to make use of computing resources delivered over the internet, organisations are able to save money, replacing hefty capital costs with predictable operational costs. They can scale their computing resources up or down as required. By paying a third party to provide public cloud services, organisations can unburden themselves of the day-to-day responsibilities in administering IT and focus on innovation.
As more and more businesses embrace consumerisation, allowing employees to access business apps on their mobile devices, CIOs are beginning to think about the best infrastructure to deliver these apps. Although some mobile apps reside on the device, they tend to have limited functionality, and there are obvious difficulties with allowing users to store data on personal devices.
Pharmaceutical modelling company Schrödinger underscored the massive potential of cloud computing in April by commissioning a 50,000-core utility supercomputer in the Amazon Web Services cloud.
High performance computing (HPC) has long been the preserve of academic institutions and highly specialised industries needing to run data hungry applications that carry out advanced analytics and rapid simulations.
Low-cost cloud computing and storage can be a boon for IT managers with tight budgets looking to get as much computing power for their money as they possibly can.
The pressure to reduce costs and respond rapidly to new opportunities in changing markets continues unabated, as the economy remains tight.
Seasoned IT professionals have long been aware that technology, challenging as it may be, is the easy part. Successful projects depend as much on people as computers.
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