5 Ways The Cloud Is Reinventing The CIO Role

REINVENTING CIOS 5% WAYS THE CLOUD IS REINVENTING THE CIO ROLE The cloud is helping businesses shift from slow, reactive strategies to nimble, scalable solutions. It's also reinventing leadership roles, giving rise to the cloud-age CIO. Here's what defines them and how they are redefining IT. Weaving security strategy The cloud-age CIO into app development. addresses security issues during initial migration strategy by diverting financial resources well before transition. Breaking through IT barriers. Focusing on speed and security. With employees turning to third-party apps, ClOs must break down silos between IT and management to meet security concerns and the needs of the business. 3 Scaling globally New cloud applications offer with new global scaling opportunities cloud apps. with ClOs identifying which applications promise the most a O reach for the least cost. 4 Identifing benefits of CIOs must balance the cloud transformation structural needs of legacy from legacy systems. systems with opportunities of the cloud. Integrating and BYOD is no longer an optional managing BYOD policies. strategy. The CIO no longer attempts to serve as a barrier to BYOD, but as an enabler who manages the data instead of the device. $250 billion Amount end-users will spend on public cloud services by 2017 ↑ 44% of companies anticipate saving no less than 6% of operational costs via internal-cloud solutions.? Nearly 70% of employees who own a smartphone or tablet choose to use it to access corporate data. 50% of companies will require employees to participate in BYOD by 2017.* 50% of enterprises will have hybrid cloud systems by 2017. Credit: Carla Uriona for Tech Page One | 2014 [1] Gartner https://www.gartner.com/doc/2642020/forecast-public-cloud-services-worldwide [2] CIO Insight http://www.cioinsight.com/it-strategy/cloud-virtualization/slideshows/enterprises-slowly-adopting-cloud-computing/ [3] http://ovum.com/press_releases/ovum-warns-byod-is-here-to-stay-and-urges-cios-to-respond-with-a-clear-strategy/ [4] http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2466615 [5] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/010214-outlook-cloud-277102.html