{"id":5531,"date":"2013-01-24T00:32:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T00:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jan\/24\/cloud-cited-key-driver-redefining-cio-role-infographic\/"},"modified":"2013-01-24T00:32:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T00:32:16","slug":"cloud-cited-as-key-driver-for-redefining-cio-role-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-cited-as-key-driver-for-redefining-cio-role-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud cited as key driver for redefining CIO role [infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey from Brocade has revealed the extent of the changing CIO role in enterprise &ndash; and put cloud adoption as a major driver of it.<\/p>\n<p>The research, which asked 100 CIOs from the EMEA sector (Europe, Middle East, Africa) found the following top-line takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50% of the CIOs polled expect that cloud adoption will result in their jobs involving less time fretting over the company IT infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>One third of CIOs confirmed that cloud services had been deployed by their business without involving the IT department<\/li>\n<li>Two in three envisage that by 2020, this trend will continue with business units procuring cloud services much more frequently<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There were other interesting results, with 75% of respondents unsure whether their company&rsquo;s SLAs (service level agreements) will meet minimum requirements, which may come as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, a downwardly revised SLA will mean downtime and greater IT costs, but Forrester &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey from Brocade has revealed the extent of the changing CIO role in enterprise &ndash; and put cloud adoption as a major driver of it.<br \/>\nThe research, which asked 100 CIOs from the EMEA sector (Europe, Middle East, Africa) found the following t&#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-5531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531","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=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}