Confessions of a Successful CIO: How the Best IT Leaders Tackle Their Toughest Business Challenges

A must read article


http://h30458.www3.hp.com/us/us/discover-performance/it-execs/2014/jan/a-veteran-cio-on-2014-s-challenges-.html

Here's the USP for Cloud Computing in 2014!

But cloud computing is not about just taking physical assets and moving them into the cloud for someone else to run—it’s faster speed to value for our business units. We used to be able to drive standard, out-of-the-box SAP or Oracle implementations. By default, cloud solutions allow you to have a standard offering on a global basis. And by default, you can’t modify it. So it clearly drives business value through faster implementations, and as you see cloud applications get upgraded and updated, your whole business gets it. So cloud is extremely important.