Join us at the CIO Washington D.C. Summit to deliver next-generation cloud, analytics and more
As business evolves so is the role of the CIO (Chief Information Officer). Today’s CIO is in an ideal position to take increasing responsibility and control. The CIO is one of the important hubs of decision-making across organizations today. I spend a good amount of my time speaking to CIOs across industries, listening to what challenges they face and how those challenges have changed since the role came into its real days about 10 years ago. As technology advancements like cloud , analytics and cognitive computing have increased their impact across today’s organizations, the role of the CIO has evolved along with it. Most of the CIOs I speak with are uniquely qualified to lead a cloud strategy; this is because of their intricate knowledge of both IT and business. While in-depth understanding of technology is critical, no less important is the ability to articulate the business impacts and opportunities of cloud computing and big data to the C-suite. CIOs should prudently evaluate all IT capabilities, organizational design, and create a roadmap for change to identify new opportunities that will deliver the best return on investment aligned with their business strategy and mission needs. Increasingly, I have observed that finding the right platform to learn is the top priority for CIOs. The CIO Washington D.C. Summit is a unique opportunity for the greatest IT thinkers to collaborate on current industry challenges and trends. The event... [Continue Reading]
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Building an infrastructure to meet the demands of today and tomorrow
IT infrastructure matters more than ever. The need to develop and manage a simplified, adaptive and responsive infrastructure has emerged as a top priority for organizations today. Let’s take a look at some of the common infrastructure challenges as well as the strategic actions organizations are taking to create a robust IT infrastructure: There’s no room for failure It’s critical that organizations make the right decisions about IT environments—decisions that don’t compromise the business or put it at risk for financial or security failure. As demands on IT infrastructure continue to increase, organizations that invest now in a diverse cloud infrastructure built on openechnologies will find they have agility and choice as well as the ability to speed business transformation. Organizations can act strategically by: Carefully matching applications to optimal sets of compute, storage and network resources Implementing tools that can manage heterogeneous environments securely and efficiently Innovate or fall behind Getting better insights faster from structured and unstructured data can bring tremendous value to any organization, but most aren’t prepared to address big data and analytics challenges such as providing consistent and secure interfaces or getting the right data to the right people. Organizations can act strategically by: Choosing systems that are tuned for big data and analytics to speed insights and improve... [Continue Reading]
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Top 6 infrastructure choices that solve business challenges
Today’s IT organizations face immense challenges. We often hear our clients telling us that in order to compete they must invest in their IT infrastructures to improve customer service, enable better decisions through improved use of data and enhance collaboration across their value chain. It means IT infrastructure matters - not just to IT but fundamentally to business. But how to make sure that the infrastructure choice that we make is right? It doesn’t have to be hard! Here are top 6 infrastructure choices that can solve business challenges: 1. Implement real-time analytics: Today's infrastructures need to build data analytics and intelligence into their daily operations and transactions. 2. Empower employees with access to customer information: Your infrastructure needs to enable shared (and secure!) access to all data, no matter what type it is or where it resides. 3. Accelerate reaction time: When you react quickly to situations (enabled by Big Data & Analytics ), you can create up to 33% higher revenue growth. 4. Gain continuous access to essential tools: Today's leading companies are 2.4x more likely to use cloud infrastructure solutions to reinvent customer relationships. Cloud brings you scalability and reliability, enabling continuous access to applications. 5. Improve agility to gain new opportunities: With cloud... [Continue Reading]
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Managed or Unmanaged Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)?
Recently, Thoughtsoncloud.com published a very interesting blog by Mike McGuire, Senior IT Architect for IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, which talks about choosing between managed and unmanaged IaaS . According to Mike, Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) typically comes in one of two forms: managed or unmanaged. Obviously, some providers also offer something in between. Usually, a provider will tend to specialize in one, although some providers can offer both. For instance, the IBM Cloud Managed Services IaaS offering specializes in managed servers, but can also offer unmanaged servers as well. Further, Mike helps our readers to understand the key differences between the two. Features that we will commonly find with a managed cloud server: Operating system deployment and management Monitoring (and action in the event of an incident) Patching Security Backup and restore services Disaster recovery and storage services Limited access to the operating system, or controlled access Operating system-based service level agreements (SLAs) Features that we will commonly find with an unmanaged cloud server: Operating system deployment Complete control of the operating system Hypervisor or infrastructure-only SLAs “This list is not exhaustive, nor does it accurately describe every cloud provider—cloud providers will generally provide a combination,” explains Mike in his blog. “Some unmanaged cloud providers can... [Continue Reading]
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