Cloud and Mobile Integrations Accepted By CIOs, But Challenges Remain
March 24, 2015
Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Shawn Drew.
Cloud and mobile integrations are increasingly occurring within businesses, but some challenges still remain. Midsize businesses can benefit from being acutely aware how powerful these tech paradigms can be and learn where others are falling short to carve out an advantage in a crowded marketplace.
Gartner’s View of the CIO Landscape
Gartner’s "Flipping to Digital Leadership: The 2015 CIO Agenda" study polled 2,800 CIOs from around the world regarding their current technology practices and future plans. Only nine percent of those polled reported not even considering a cloud-based SaaS solution, and that number only rises to 15 percent for IaaS. These results suggest that the public cloud is widely considered a viable option for most projects…
"While a larger percentage view cloud as something to consider on an exception basis, nearly half have quickly moved from viewing cloud as a concept to a viable option," Gartner noted. The study also found that mobile was considered a primary or secondary interface for a significant number of IT assets. This moves mobility from an afterthought to one of the major considerations for any savvy application or service design team…
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