Cloud and its impact on the CIO: then and now
March 8, 2016
Grazed from EnterpriseInnovation. Author: Allan Tan.
“As its technologies and processes mature, the cloud is being increasingly relied on as a vehicle for agile, scalable and elastic solutions. To build competitive advantage and cut costs, CIOs and other IT leaders need to constantly adapt their strategies to leverage cloud capabilities.” So says Gartner in its Predicts 2016: Cloud Computing to Drive Digital Business report.
The Cloud terminology has become ingrained in business vocabulary and represents what many businesses see is the next evolution of IT: the ability to source the required IT resources – be it computing resources, storage capacity, network connectivity, mobile application or secured services. However, despite the acceptance of cloud, public or private or hybrid, as an acceptable strategy that delivers on the promise of utility-like services the use of public cloud to host critical business applications at scale remains limited to the puzzlement of cloud service providers…
Henk ten Bos, chief information officer at Ageas Insurance Company (Asia) Limited in Hong Kong, says if anything cloud has changed IT’s view of technology and implementations over the course of the last five years. He shares some of his earlier experiences, including attempts to integrate cloud-like services in upcoming projects. He recalls objections raised by members of the IT team with regards to the use of cloud for a CRM project. Eventually a successful pilot of a cloud project led to a moderation in objection and appreciation of the value of cloud computing accorded to both IT and the business…
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