What it takes to build a cloud organization in 2014
January 31, 2014
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.
Many enterprises planning a move to cloud-based systems believe a huge disruptive change in the IT organization is required as part of that shift. They call it "building a cloud organization." I blame this disruptive mentality mostly on the ongoing press coverage that calls for "the end of IT as we know it" or other silly events that won’t happen. Any time the analysts or press project absolutes, their predictions never seem to pan out. In the world of IT, we evolve. We don’t suddenly shift.
Right now we’re about five years into this cloud thing, and the predicted huge disruptive changes in IT organizations have not occurred. In fact, most organizations have not made enough progress with cloud-based technology to even call it a systemic change. But they have been changing…
Whenever there is a fundamental transition in the technology we use, organizations must adapt around that development. We’ve seen many instances of this in the past, such as the PC movement in the 1980s, the movement to the Web in the 1990s, and the movement to complex Internet-delivered and distributed systems, such as cloud computing, in this decade…
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