HP’s cloud CTO: ‘It’s time for CIOs to embrace opportunities of the cloud’
October 26, 2012
Grazed from SiliconRepublic. Author: John Kennedy.
Instead of resisting change and viewing cloud computing trends as a threat, CIOs need to start building services for their organisations and focus on protecting their organisations’ data, Christian Verstraete, the CTO of Hewlett-Packard’s Cloud Strategy Team Worldwide, told Siliconrepublc.com.
Verstraete is responsible for the definition of HP’s cloud functional and reference architectures, as well as the co-ordination of cloud activities across HP. He is effectively the link between the CTO community inside HP, as well as the tech giant’s customers and partners…
What is most surprising to Verstraete is the confusion that seems to reign around the term cloud, which he agrees is just a word seized upon by marketers to describe the computing infrastructure on demand model that has been brewing for years now.
“Increasingly I find myself asking myself is infrastructure as a service (IaaS) really something that deserves the term ‘cloud’ because it’s fundamentally the next step in something that CIOs and IT departments have been doing for a long time, which has been the provision of services and storage…
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