Today, many of these roles are now unnecessary as they are being provided, at scale, by cloud providers. Many CIOs are struggling to reimagine themselves and their teams’ role with the new cloud capabilities.
The role of a CIO is no longer just to troubleshoot laptop issues, provide internet access, email security and on-premise servers. Yes, I know this sounds like a cliché, but these tasks were a lot of the day to day responsibilities of CIOs and their teams.
With the massive migration to the cloud and the adoption of DevOps, the chief information officer’s (CIO) technology stack is rapidly changing. CIOs used to manage very large information technology (IT) and security teams to maintain and secure their on-premise datacenters.
Now, CIOs need to enable innovation across the enterprise’s siloes at every department level and provide various solutions like machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain and cybersecurity solutions at cloud scale and ultimately enable the organization and its employees to create their own products built on top of that technology stack while focusing on their mission and end goals. Read More …
Source : Forbes