The CIO has to be more

In recent years, HDS has developed a habit of doing two things every year at the end of the year: first, make predictions about the IT trends for the following years, and second, publish the results of the research for the CIO. 2014 is no exception. Hitachi has released such two reports recently.

This year, HDS has put forward concepts such as "business-defined It", "developer-defined data center". HDS is more willing to look at the business and application perspective of how technology can evolve to make a difference to customers. HDS commissioned The Economist Intelligence think-tank (EIU) to conduct a survey of executives from more than 1000 companies in the Asia-Pacific region and published a report entitled "CIO Transformation and Reverse assault". The core point of the report is that high-level IT staff within the enterprise have gained enough respect, but technology managers who want to be managers of the business as a whole need a lot of skills and experience beyond the technology.

Survey data from the CIO's Metamorphosis and counter attack show that in nearly 90% of the companies interviewed, CIOs can take on strategic decision-making tasks in addition to their IT management functions. Most respondents said that CIOs should be involved in the discussions and play a role early in critical business decisions. "66% of respondents believe that CIOs are potential candidates to take over as CEOs," said Neville Vincent, vice president and general manager of Hitachi Asia Pacific. Chinese respondents had the highest rate of support for this conclusion. ”

From the development trend, it is changing from the cost center of the enterprise to the profit center. It needs both "open source and throttle" responsibility. The managers of the enterprise not only ask the CIO to lead his technical team to further improve the efficiency of IT system, reduce the cost, but also want it to better drive business innovation and bring new business growth point.

The findings show that CEOs want CIOs to continue to improve their capabilities in three ways: first, to better understand the business, second, to enhance strategic thinking, and thirdly, to have a comprehensive understanding of the development of the industry. So, how far is the CIO from the CEO?

The CIO's Metamorphosis and reversal gives five suggestions: first, CIOs should take ownership of information, drive sales growth through more efficient data management and data analysis, and second, CIOs should coordinate it and business needs more efficiently, look beyond the IT department, and actively explore new ways In order to make better use of new technology to enhance the competitiveness of enterprises; third, CIOs should strive to improve the ROI of it rather than simply thinking in terms of cost savings, and the CIO should be able to demonstrate leadership and gain knowledge and experience beyond traditional IT skills. and take the initiative to participate in other business of the enterprise; The CIO should drive innovation, not just to contribute to innovation, but not only to focus on the business, but also to work closely with other executives in the company to drive innovation and to be involved in important business decisions early on.

After understanding the business needs of the enterprise, it helps enterprises to achieve innovation and higher ROI by using it. This work will be targeted. Phil Gann, senior director of Hitachi Asia Pacific Solutions and products, said that today, the integration of business and information technology is becoming more important than ever. This is what Hitachi's 2015 Asia Pacific Business and technology forecasts report says: The era of business-defined it has come, and now is the best time for it to embrace mobile devices, cloud services, big data technologies, and social networks; The CIO of the enterprise should respond positively to these needs and become the "architect" and "broker" of the control business. , instead of just focusing on the data center infrastructure.

HDS forecasts 2015 of technology and application hotspots in five areas of smart cities, big data, hybrid cloud, mobile applications, and data privacy.

First, Smart city plans will drive a bigger round of investment in the Internet of things. The computing, networking, storage infrastructure and new software architectures needed by smart cities will be unprecedented in scale, says Phil Gann, and hyper-converged solutions will be a big hit. HDS is already ready to support VMware's Evo:rail hyper-converged solution. Hyper-converged solutions will be one of the biggest growth points in the IT market in the 2015, and it is the foundation for big data.

Second, all walks of life will consider adopting big data schemes to gain a competitive advantage. The CIO's metamorphosis and reversal shows that 10% of Asia-Pacific companies have invested in data analysis over the past 12 months, and that the investment will increase by 12% in the coming year. Phil Gann believes that the next generation of big data solutions requires not only new infrastructure platforms to store and manage large numbers of data pools, but also the ability to analyze data in real time. To achieve this, scale-out infrastructure, machine learning tools, and business environment software are required.

Third, hybrid cloud will be the preferred method for deploying enterprise applications.

Today, many organizations are proactively migrating critical applications to a private cloud and trying to run temporary internal workloads in the public cloud. The hybrid cloud simplifies the interaction between public and private clouds, and enables better management and control to eliminate user concerns about cloud usage and security, says Phil Gann.

"The CIO's Metamorphosis and reversal" shows that 10% of Asia-Pacific companies have invested heavily in cloud computing, but the distribution of investments is uneven, with Singapore's companies investing the most in cloud computing, while companies surveyed in Indonesia and Thailand do not invest in cloud computing at all.

Finally, in order to support mobile applications, enterprises can use object storage technology more. To enable data to move across different clouds, organizations must find ways to enable intelligent and efficient remote access to applications and data, and to allow easy sharing of information through smart devices while ensuring that sensitive data is protected.

Five, companies should more effectively protect data privacy and increase investment in compliance.

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The CIO has to be more