#DefragCon 2013 Notes: The Sands of Time: How Cloud is Changing the Role of the CIO — Rod Smith, IBM
The Sands of Time: How Cloud is Changing the Role of the CIO – Rod Smith, IBM LoBs want apps “built and deployed in less than 6 days” Looking for business value first, IT integration second This means working closer with CMOs, CHROs, etc IT using open source, “born on the web” technologies to deliver quickly This meets the LoB’s neds, but not IT’s architecture, integration, security, compliance, business controls IT beginning to factor in cloud solutions to meet LoB opportunistic business needs Enables ROI transparency Using cloud resources enable rapid exploration before IT integration, allowing the conversation to happen earlier They liked how Heroku’s business model brings the discussion to a business level dialog, rather than IT They are using the open cloud architecture to select the vendors desired, as well as location, to build their fabric CloudFoundry, OpenStack, etc. API-centered view for building solutions BlueMix PaaS demo – integrated DevOps with browser and Eclipse-based tools
The Sands of Time: How Cloud is Changing the Role of the CIO – Rod Smith, IBM
- LoBs want apps “built and deployed in less than 6 days”
- Looking for business value first, IT integration second
- This means working closer with CMOs, CHROs, etc
- IT using open source, “born on the web” technologies to deliver quickly
- This meets the LoB’s neds, but not IT’s architecture, integration, security, compliance, business controls
- IT beginning to factor in cloud solutions to meet LoB opportunistic business needs
- Enables ROI transparency
- Using cloud resources enable rapid exploration before IT integration, allowing the conversation to happen earlier
- They liked how Heroku’s business model brings the discussion to a business level dialog, rather than IT
- They are using the open cloud architecture to select the vendors desired, as well as location, to build their fabric
- CloudFoundry, OpenStack, etc.
- API-centered view for building solutions
- BlueMix PaaS demo – integrated DevOps with browser and Eclipse-based tools