Welcome to another round of featured news items from around the web. Each week, we handpick articles for our community related to cloud and enterprise technology. We welcome your suggestions for next week’s round-up— share your links in the comments section or tweet a link to us at @msproductivity.
Ready, Set, Go: CIO’s Top Ten Challenges
Today’s CIOs and IT departments are at the cross-road: on the one hand, digitization and globalization make the technology more critical than ever, IT capability becomes the competitive differentiator, information/data just penetrate into every corner of their organization and our human society; on the other hand, the latest technology such as cloud/social computing unleash the potential to decentralize the enterprise, and democratize our working environment, will IT be left out or more strategic focused and mission critical? Here we list the top ten challenges facing in today’s CIO to provoke the further discussion.
New Federal CIO suggests he'll pursue Kundra's plans
Several analysts in the government and IT realms agree that Cloud-First – particularly on the back of the cloud computing trend so prevalent in the private sector – already has enough momentum to carry on after Kundra. And there is evidence that VanRoekel is of a similar “tech-forward” mindset as Kundra, particularly when it comes to leading federal agencies to harness the same technologies that Americans use on a daily basis, as well as consolidating IT resources and Web sites to reduce tech spending.“We’re taking a page from the online entrepreneur’s playbook, releasing products quickly and often, and letting the many eyes of the Web drive the continuous improvement we hope FCC.gov will come to embody,” VanRoekel wrote on the FCC’s official blog in April. “Built in the cloud, and developed with open source software, the new FCC.gov lowers barriers to future development as part of a long-term IT cost-cutting strategy.”
3 Technology Trends Your Company Can't Ignore
Technology is evolving -- fast. And though it might not be easy to keep up with it all, your company cannot just focus on the changes that are happening today. You need to look beyond, to the technological trends that are emerging to shape the future of your organization and your industry. Why? Because the more anticipatory you can be in regard to technology, the more creatively you can use it to gain competitive advantage.
Money’s Worth from the Cloud: The Aditya Birla FSG way
Being in the business of money, G V Gopalakrishnan, COO, ABFSG, and Tarun Pandey, VP-IT, ABFSG, recognize that IT downtime or unavailability has a direct impact on the bottom-line. The duo has a smart model to meet all IT requirements. “Each company has their own requirements; we try and bring synergy in meeting these so that every entity benefits without impacting the time-to-market,” explains Gopalakrishnan.