Are You A New Age CIO?

With disruptive tech forces changing the enterprsie computing dynamcis, as a CIO are you reinventing your IT organization to stay relevant in the market place?

- Shrikanth G

Traditional IT is sunsetting as radical new models powered by on demand is completely changing the taxonomy of enterprise IT and consumption patterns. As we all know Digital today is an oft-repeated term and often times we struggle to find one definition that satisfies all. right now, the air is riddled with alphabet soup of abbreviations - SDX to IoT and whole lot of emerging tech vocabulary. The CIO is clearly caught at the intersection of this disruption. If they miss the emerging tech bus, they face extinction.

While the brick and mortar to online transition happened a few years back, what is happening right now is the beginning of what some companies call as ‘Application economy’. In an earlier interview with Dataquest, Bask Iyer, CIO of VMware told that ‘every business has the potential to be ‘Uberized’ right now. In a way, it indicates how computing, as we know now is going to undergo a fundamental transition from current enterprise 2.0 to a completely new demand scenario.

Two things are happening here. One is on the disruption happening on the supply side and the other is on the demand side. The CXOs, on the one hand, are grappling with digital transformation challenges and expect the vendors to address those challenges. On the other hand, the vendors are caught in the nexus of forces and invested in staying relevant to the demand side.

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