Cloud Computing: AWS, Salesforce conferences highlight CIO conundrum
November 11, 2013
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Larry Dignan.
The next two weeks of tech conferences can be boiled down to one phrase: Cloud computing. Another thread worth noting is whether CIOs and their departments will increasingly become irrelevant due to the cloud. Amazon Web Services will kick off its Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Last year’s AWS powwow was an inaugural voyage that highlighted a broad customer base and plenty of C-level types running around. This year’s AWS event will be much larger.
The general theme from Re:Invent will revolve around how maintaining a data center just doesn’t make a lot of sense anymore. Infrastructure as a service is the way to go and AWS is racking up case studies everywhere. Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference follows the AWS gathering a week later. Salesforce will talk social, cloud, mobile and being a customer-centric company…
Behind all the headlines coming from Re:Invent and Dreamforce will be the changing role of the chief information officer. One of the big debates of 2013 has revolved around whether the CIO is relevant or does the chief marketing officer really hold the tech purse strings. Perhaps the chief digital officer—a post with a limited shelf life since all companies will be digital in five years anyway—will be the belle of the ball…
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