2014 Forecast for Cloud Computing, By Sharon Florentine (@MyShar0na), Thor Olavsrud (@ThorOlavsrud). With the cloud democratizing enterprise technology, 2014 will see continued pressure put on the CIO to transform IT. John Considine, CTO of Verizon Terremark, believes that “the two roles of the CIO and IT function will be thrown into increasingly sharp relief: the CIO and IT organization as an operations arm on the one hand and the IT organization as innovator that delivers new solutions and technologies on the other.” Ten cloud predictions from Tony DiBenedetto, founder of Tribridge, include further cloud segmentation and education, HR and marketing taking control of tech innovation, the CIO undertaking the role of cloud enabler, small businesses accessing big software through the cloud, and a shift to application-centric software development. Additionally, Tony predicts that IT will increasingly decentralize in the coming year, cloud providers will deliver software on tap, providers will add gravity to the cloud, the cloud will get intelligent with data manipulation on its servers, and machine-to-machine learning will come into its own. Read the full article at IDG.no!
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