Leveraging Cloud, Open Source To Aid Embattled IT
April 17, 2014
Grazed from EnterpriseTech. Author: George Leopold.
IT executives laid out the challenges and opportunities created by cloud computing, open source, and other disruptive technologies during this week’s Red Hat summit in San Francisco. With the rise of mobility, social media, big data and cloud computing, “The reality today for the enterprise IT organization is it is a nightmare,” warned Steve Bandrowczak, Hewlett-Packard’s CIO for enterprise services.
Enterprise IT administrators must now hustle to meet the heightened expectations of workers who have grown accustomed to instantaneous access to data and video downloads along with two-second response times. The challenge, Bandrowczak added, is to “take that massive complexity and simplify it for our users and make it faster,” while adding “higher value and lower cost.”…
Meanwhile, IT budgets are being squeezed. "The reality is that we are being asked to do more with less," which means IT departments will have to create new business models in order to deliver…
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