The growing impetus to move hardware and software technology to the cloud means change for everyone in corporate IT departments. No job will see more change than that of the chief information officers.
The cloud might ultimately offer CIOs the chance to outsource as much of their IT functions as has been possible since Electronic Data Systems Corp. pioneered the notion of farming out corporate technology functions in the 1960s.
Hardware, software and connectivity can increasingly be provided and run by somebody else. And with employees increasingly getting the green light to use their own mobile phones, tablets and laptops on corporate networks, it’s sometimes not even necessary for enterprises to provide the end devices that people use to work.
All of which raises the question: Will the cloud make CIOs and technology chiefs obsolete? Continue Reading…
At first blush, it seems absurd that an open-source system for cloud computing could be secure. After all, the bad guys can read the source code. That seemingly makes it easy for them to write malware, viruses or other malicious code to attack anyone using the open source system.
Indeed, in an October 2012 survey, some 82.9 percent of respondents said they weren’t using a public cloud system. Of those respondents, security was the most-cited reason at 28.9 percent.
But look a bit deeper, and it turns out that open source has a lot to offer cloud systems in the security department. In fact, it’s arguably safer. Continue Reading…
Flexibility. Operational cost savings. Averted capital expenditures. On-demand scalability. The reasons for moving information technology to the cloud are compelling.
How compelling? Enough that one study on enterprise cloud computing found 75 percent of firms worldwide using some type of cloud platform. Forrester analyst Lauren Nelson, new research indicates 55 percent of North American and European companies “plan to prioritize building an internal private cloud, and 33 percent already have adopted private cloud.”
Indeed, the mad rush to the cloud makes it appear that building your own cloud stack is a piece of cake. Not so, at least not to date, and especially for the uninitiated. Continue Reading…
The growing impetus to move hardware and software technology to the cloud means change for everyone in corporate IT departments. No job will see more change than that of the chief information officers.
