Cloud Computing: Revenge of the CIO – the new chief enabler
May 1, 2014
Grazed from InformationAge. Author: Ben Rossi.
It has been about a decade since cloud computing emerged as the third platform — the next phase of the IT revolution beyond mainframe and client/server. It has taken a while, but cloud services as a platform for enterprise computing are showing signs of maturity, especially where data security and regulatory compliance are concerned.
In the past, these two areas have caused a lot of restless nights for CIOs wondering where their enterprise data is and who is accessing it. Many CIOs are reluctant to adopt cloud services, at least until they can feel confident that enterprise data isn’t at risk and that compliance requirements can be met…
But that hasn’t stopped individual employees and entire lines of business (LoBs) from choosing and using their own cloud services that will help them do their jobs. They have simply bypassed the IT organisation to take charge of their own productivity. But now – at last – things are falling into place to help the CIOs eliminate the perception of being viewed as the “CI-no” and once again become the “chief information enabler” of their business…
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