CIOs must focus on software and cloud to drive change as hardware era ends
June 17, 2015
Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Roland Moore-Colyer.
Software is changing the role of chief information officers (CIOs), requiring them to use IT to drive, rather than simply support, a business, according to the CIO of Virgin Active. Andy Caddy explained at Interop 2015 in London that the ability of modern software to replace the functions and capabilities of physical hardware means that CIOs no longer need to focus on maintaining systems or replacing legacy IT.
“Software has solved the problem,” he said. “The idea that, once things are software they solve the problems and you don’t have to look back, is really what’s driving [change].” Caddy added that software can be used to replace specialist hardware with virtual equivalents, and that cloud computing is nearing the stage when shifting traditional disk storage into the cloud is an easy process…
He said that CIOs currently procuring hardware are buying “instant legacy”, as the systems can be replaced by software equivalents that solve problems faster than hardware goes out of date…
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