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Technology is helping organisations to
stay competitive and as it becomes a more
integral part of business strategy, it directly
impacts and transitions the role of the CIO
as Dalibor Siroky, CEO and Co-Founder at
Plutora explained: “The role of the CIO has
always been to oversee the use of IT across
the entire business. They have to understand
the details of what it takes to run every area
efficiently, how each area fits together, and
prioritise suitable technology to streamline
and optimise strategic business benefits.
“But, like almost every job in technology, the
role of the CIO has changed dramatically
over the last few decades due to the rapid
development of innovative technology.
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Previously, CIOs would have been responsible
for managing Systems Administrators for
example – who maintained the hardware
that the business relied on.
In today’s digital world where DevOps and
software are driving business results, CIOs’
focus is less on rooms filled with server racks
and more on development projects and
software, the speed of releases and the
collaboration between a range of IT teams
working in sync to ensure that the processes
run smoothly. While the objectives of the
business may not have changed too much, the
technology being used to achieve them has
and it’s the job of the CIO to ensure that these
needs are consistently met and exceeded.”
FEATURE: STATE OF THE CIO
Transformation
Hearing directly from the CIO at Zerto, Avi
Raichel, transformation has an important
part to play: “The CIO role is now about
driving transformation; not only do you need
to be open to things always changing, you
need to love it.
“One such transformation that CIOs should
be driving is the move to simplify each
organisation’s technology portfolio – which
is something I’m advocating for my team.
When it comes to meeting rapidly growing
data protection concerns, as well as
succeeding as an always-on business, this
means searching out converged solutions
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