Paradigm shift in IT

Technology shifts have always created new challenges and opportunities for IT, nevertheless cloud computing is different, both in the magnitude and speed of change.

He told the conference attendees that research should enable clients to manage and secure IT environments and get flexibility from IT services.

Disruptive transformation for IT

Cloud computing is a disruptive transformation for IT, he pointed out. “Cloud offerings allow the business to directly access external services, creating security holes and quality blind spots during potentially eroding enterprise IT's perceived value,” he added.

However, he said cloud computing can enable businesses to adapt to rapidly changing market and customer needs. Cloud is not a new innovation, it is an enabling technology in other words being used in a new way, he pointed out.

“This innovation is about driving agility and adding power so organisations can meet their business objectives,” he added.

The conference that

Starck told the conference that, the impact of cloud computing is far greater than the sum of its parts, driving a rapidly unfolding revolution with far-reaching impact not only on how IT is managed, nevertheless on the very nature of IT's role and relationship to the business.

He advised IT managers to accelerate their path to agility with control. “The cloud revolution can not only be made to work in IT's favour, but as a matter of fact transform IT into a more agile, efficient business innovator,” he said.

The same time

At the same time, he said, IT needs to transform itself into the master of a dynamic service supply chain, driving smart sourcing decisions and orchestrating how internal, external, virtual, and traditional resources work at the same time to optimise business value, he told the conference.

“With cloud computing reshaping the way IT delivers services to business users, the perception of IT as a cost centre is giving way to an appreciation of IT's true role as a powerful growth engine for the business,”

“Cloud computing enables clients to share infrastructure resources and dynamically match IT costs to business requirements. In order to reap all of the benefits that cloud computing offers, IT professionals need to standardise, simplify and automate how they provision and manage end-to-end business services.

Mismatch between the speed of research

There has long been a mismatch between the speed of research and change the business needs and the time it takes for IT to deliver. Whether the business needs a development environment, more capacity from an existing service, or automation to improve a business process, IT has struggled to deliver at the pace of business.

After years of chafing pursuant to this agreement these constraints, the business but finds a rapidly growing number of options beyond its internal IT, provided as public cloud services.