From this week’s issue:
- McKinsey research: IT needs a kick in the keister
- Whither the CIO? The role of IT-and the IT leader-will evolve along two different paths
- 10 Things Most Exceptional CIOs Never Do
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Digital Transformation via data, process and CX.
IT as a Business – I/TBM Newsletter, April 2, 2014
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What the latest cloud explosion really means | Cloud computing – InfoWorld
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From InformationWeek, in response to last weeks cloud price drops….key takeways from this article:
“Cheap cloud capacity makes the all-in cloud practical, and the enticement of Sustained Use Discounts makes it less likely new businesses will eventually migrate their cloud deployments back to local infrastructure.”
“PaaS is the hottest area of the cloud right now. Enterprises are actively exploring public-cloud PaaS for building new, customer-facing applications — and many are looking at on-premises PaaS as well. Inside the enterprise data center, PaaS is poised to replace the application server, ushering in scale-out architecture and support for multiple languages.”
“That’s the new software model: Native clients where they’re needed for the user experience, JavaScript where it isn’t, and back-end functionality in the cloud.”
via What the latest cloud explosion really means | Cloud computing – InfoWorld.
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#Agile #disruption Amazon’s #AWS 42nd price DEcrease since 2008
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Email from Amazon today – 42nd price DECREASE since 2008…and when you try to contact AWS for support, they give you two choices to have them call you back, “Now” or “In 15 Minutes”. I chose 15 minutes and got a knowledgeable and understandable person who called me and immediately answered my question.
NOW THATS WHAT I CALL DISRUPTIVE..
Dear Amazon Web Services Customer,
We are excited to announce price reductions for Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Elastic MapReduce. This is our 42nd price reduction since 2008 and we’re happy to continue the tradition of making AWS more cost-effective over time.
The price reductions go into effect on April 1, 2014 and will be automatically applied to your account. For additional price reduction details, please visit the AWS blog.
Looking for more ways to stay up-to-date on the latest developments in the AWS Cloud?
- Join us at an AWS event near you. Find a summit or learn more about our global conference – AWS re:Invent
- Stay connected on @awscloud or like us on Facebook
- Contact a cloud representative
Re-invent the way you work with IT, with Amazon Web Services.
Sincerely,
The Amazon Web Services Team
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IT as a Business – I/TBM Newsletter, March 26, 2014 and #ITFMA Reminder
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Some articles to note from this issue of IT as a Business – I/TBM:
- From CEOWorld – The Top CIOs That You Should Consider Following on Twitter
- Tangled Web of IT Applications Stunts Digital Transformation – Information Age CIO Study
- Essential Technology Business Management Reading for the CIO – Apptio
- The Cloud is Tempting CIOs to Change Their Tech Vendors – ReadWrite .
Reminder – The ITFMA Conference (Norfolk, VA, April 14th-18th) is rapidly approaching and with the opportunities/challenges offered by the cloud, by open-source, by BYOD and by the emerging discipline of Business Architecture, its a great time to learn how to enhance IT transparency, starting with the $ .
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Is “Rip and Replace” of Legacy Systems Happening?
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Last July, Saugatuck Technology blogged on the possibility that “rip and replace” of legacy systems was a potential approach some businesses were considering, to allow for greater agility. This would have significant repercussions across the industry but has this started to occur in force horizontally? Or in any specific vertical?
The benefits of “rip and replace” can be significant, as can the risks. How would a CIO prepare their organization for this strategy? Wouldn’t a baseline utilizing an I/TBM approach be recommended to drive business unit involvement and buy-in? Looking at day to day operating costs where mainframes act solely as large data repositories for static customer accounts, these operating costs can be miniscule when compared to costs of a new system. With the business value proposition for “rip and replace” potentially more challenging to define, transparency afforded by an I/TBM approach would seem to be a mandatory first step.
From the Saugatuck blog:
“How best to manage architectural disruption – accelerating Rip and Replace? We had some terrific conversations with both user and provider executives about the accelerating pace of technology innovation, and how many companies are having a hard time staying current,and leveraging the emergence of the New Master Architecture – and its array of technologies (Cloud, Social, Mobile, Advanced Analytics and Big Data). Ironically, this is in some cases delaying the pace of Cloud adoption. One subtle and not yet well articulated theme that emerged from our discussions, supported by some of the key findings detailed in our recently published 2013 Global Cloud Business Adoption, Trends, and Planning Positions Research Report (1231SSR, 27June2013) – is that we may be entering a period of accelerated “rip and replace” of core systems, rather than following the historical practice that all new advancements merely layer in on top of existing footprints, or the traditional mantra that “legacy systems always stay in use.”
via Insights from the Road – Three Key Themes from Recent Client Meetings | Lens360.
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CIOs and Managing the Innovation Cult #I/TBM #ITDM
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This article was posted by a technology vendor marketing strategist on a guest The Heller Report blog…
My initial trepidation was that there may be some “protecting your turf” angle in this article, but instead it is focused on prodding CIOs to move forward with innovation. Basically, its a common sense advice blog that CIOs and future CIOs would do well to internalize.
From the blog itself:
“What’s a CIO to do?
The easiest option of course is to blindly follow the cult by committing the IT organization to delivering more innovation. But there’s a problem. Not every CIO has access to the unlimited talent pool…”
“Challenging or trying to control the cult won’t work either.”
The answer suggested in the blog is straightforward and is what an I/TBM approach helps do:
“Put Technology Innovation in Business Context.”
Simple yet sage advice. Have you explored I/TBM and running IT like a business yet?
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Tips on Maximizing your iPhone Battery Life
Although this was blogged last summer, this is still a useful reference guide for most of us….
Why Does My iPhone Battery Die So Fast? The iPhone Battery Fix!.
IT as a Business – I/TBM Newsletter, March 12, 2014
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Sample articles in IT as a Business – I/TBM Newsletter, March 12, 2014 edition include:
- CIO Panel: The Cloud as Enabler of Business Innovation
- 7 New Faces of the C-Suite CIO
- The Evolving Role of the CIO in an Era of Digital Disruption
- CIOs frustrated by mainframe app conversion expense
- IVIS-42 blog post on IT impact of “free” Getty digital library.
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IVIS-42; Use I/TBM to Quantify Business Innovation – The world’s largest photo service just made its pictures free to use | The Verge
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Next Step: This could have significant impact to an organization’s digital function. While corporate marketing is most likely aware of this by now, IT should grasp this announcement and begin working to define what IT will need (data, process and integration) to help their business users maximize corporate benefit of Getty images being free.
While this can be viewed as “just a cost decrease,” my guess is that is only a small part of the equation. The impact on infrastructure (LAN and WAN) could become significant, not to mention security associated with greater sharing of images. Storage should also be significantly impacted (tip: buy EMC and NetApp stock). ..and what about 3-D printing synergy and opportunity?
Policies can help “protect” IT but why? Why have policies that will negatively impact business use of free digital assets? By getting in front of this and using I/TBM to assess, qualify and quantify business value, including cost, IT can re-establish a leadership role in their company’s digital strategy.
The full article can be read at: The world’s largest photo service just made its pictures free to use | The Verge.
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IVIS-41; Outsource Your DNS
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Next Step: Read the below article from the leader in hosted DNS, Dyn. Decide if self-hosted DNS is a strategic, competitive differentiator for you. If not, meet with an industry leader such as Dyn to learn why they are a leader (architecture, technology, process). Build financial model to compare cost/benefit and if its close, outsource it.
For years now, the real value of IT has been in creating and maintaining competitive differentiation and advantage for business users. Since Nicholas Carr’s watershed article from over a dozen years ago, if a technology is not a strategic differentiator, then why own and operate it yourself? If your shop can “do it better” than the alternative, that’s fine but you should challenge that every budget cycle, or more frequently.
Continually re-look and re-think every item making up the IT operational budget and see if it can be shifted out, not to eliminate IT budget, but to shift it from run-the-business to grow/change-the-business (data, process and integration).
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