CIO Travel Guide For 2012

Rather than doing traditional analyst predictions we thought it would be a good idea to give you an infographic to mull over for the holiday season and to use as your personal travel guide on your IT voyage through 2012.

Three Destinations

We think there are three destinations that will be on your itinerary. The cloud, social and mobile.

In your journey to the cloud, IT deployment models are radically moving from a manual, scheduled, and physical orientated architecture to an automated, on-demand, and virtual architecture. At the same time the control of IT operations is moving from the customer to the supplier as is infrastructure ownership, and services responsibility. You will need to orchestrate a hybrid mix of cloud and non-cloud IT resources for some time.

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On your journey to the social enterprise, you will encounter ubiquitous connectivity and customers and employees that are moving to a world that is social, mobile and open. As you are breaking down the information silos in the enterprise you will need to integrate the four stages of communications and collaboration and set your compass to the quarter that leads to a single communications and collaboration interface.

On your mobile voyage you will find out that work is not a place but an activity. The traditional firewall position that shields the enterprise network will change as the cloud network takes over. As a result, even at headquarters remote access is becoming the normal method of accessing resources. This is good news: with only one way of accessing resources, wherever you are, it should become much easier to manage access. You will also notice that the PC will not go away anytime soon. You have just too much invested in a professional PC client infrastructure. Yet your passengers will be equipped with many personal information devices that will access enterprise resources whether you like it or not.

Two Paths

There are two paths that lead to these destinations.

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