Cloud Tech News

Cloud computing, mobility, and the Internet of Things are leading us towards a more technology-driven world. In my last blog, I wrote about how the Internet of Things will change our everyday lives, but with these new technologies comes new risks to the organization.

Over the last five years a number of new technologies that provide huge technological advantages (and create management headaches) have been developed. We have attempted to leverage these advances to the benefit of our organizations, while at the same time struggling with how to incorporate them into our established IT management methodologies.

We first went from reserving cloud capacity to securing capacity on-demand, and then we even started to bid for unused capacity in spot market - all in an effort to decrease cost in the cloud. Can we take this one step further? Instead of us bidding for capacity, wouldn't it be interesting if we can get providers to bid for our demand?

The cloud has fundamentally changed business models; it has shifted time-to-market, entry points and who can do what. These byproducts of massive elasticity are wrapped up in an even greater evolutionary change that is occurring right now: The cloud is having a pronounced impact on the supply chain, which will amount to a tidal wave of changes in the near-term that will cause huge pain for some and spawn incredible innovation and wealth for others.

Is public cloud mature enough for enterprise adoption? Should public cloud be a part of every business IT strategy? How big a barrier are legacy applications and hardware to public cloud adoption?

Does your encryption process cater for the difference between 'data at rest' security requirements and 'encrypt sensitive data' requirements, and can you define the difference between the two? Ken Smith explains why, sometimes, encryption isn't as simple as it seems.

What are the CIO priorities as we move into 2013? Where are the biggest IT challenges coming from? what are your predictions from the coming year?

"Back in the day", CIOs, CTOs and IT directors were the injection point for technology acceptance into the business. Now, that injection point has been turned into a fire hose.