{"id":10185,"date":"2014-02-10T00:29:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T00:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/feb\/10\/cios-told-latest-report-embrace-cloud-or-be-left-behind\/"},"modified":"2014-02-10T00:29:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T00:29:07","slug":"cios-told-in-latest-report-to-embrace-cloud-or-be-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cios-told-in-latest-report-to-embrace-cloud-or-be-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"CIOs told in latest report to \u201cembrace cloud or be left behind\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A survey from Capita IT Services has revealed that CIOs see cloud computing as a key enabler to business innovation, yet boardrooms are &ldquo;nervous&rdquo; places where execs have to convince them cloud adoption is the way forward.<\/p>\n<p>The research, a combination of roundtable sessions and surveys featuring nearly 150 CIOs, found some interesting points regarding cloud adoption. More than three in five (61%) believe that improving the company&rsquo;s innovation is now one of their highest priorities, with a further one in five (20%) believing it to be a low priority.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the report discusses the shift of CIO from chief information to chief innovation officer.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The &lsquo;C&rsquo; in CIO now represents communication, collaboration, change; &lsquo;I&rsquo; represents integration, interfaces, investment; and &lsquo;O&rsquo; means optimisation, organisation and operations,&rdquo; the report trumpets.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In order to assert themselves at board level and become strategic business influencers, CIOs need to align themselves with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey from Capita IT Services has revealed that CIOs see cloud computing as a key enabler to business innovation, yet boardrooms are &ldquo;nervous&rdquo; places where execs have to convince them cloud adoption is the way forward.<br \/>\nThe research, a co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}