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IT Leaders Have Little Time for Digital Transformation

logoA current study “The BT CIO report 2016 – the digital CIO” on behalf of the network and IT service provider BT clearly shows that while the CIOs around the world are driving the digital transformation, the processes, and systems of their companies and organizations are hindering the transformation.

Their importance at the management level continues to rise under the influence of digitization. More than seventy percent of the surveyed about a thousand IT decision-makers from eleven countries said that the role of the CIO in corporate governance in the past two years has become more important. And almost 43 percent of respondents stated that they spend more time today on issues that affect the company as a whole.

The flip side of this trend is that it becomes increasingly difficult for the IT chiefs at all to find time to develop creative solutions for daily business. Nearly two-thirds of IT decision-makers feel that the CIO spend more time on the existing IT systems to keep running than trying to find new solutions. CIOs have, therefore, irrespective of their ambitions in terms of digital transformation, a lot to do still with contaminated sites.

Nearly 80 percent of large companies and organizations pursue global or a “multi-speed” approach: technology-driven initiatives are driven at different speeds and priorities – with the CIO as a driving force. This requires more creativity, flexibility, and a more dynamic business model. The BT study found that two-thirds of CIOs also found that rapidly alter the key performance indicators (KPIs) with which their own performance is measured. The digital transformation moves precisely in the heart of all its activities.

In most companies, which were covered by the new BT study, different departments are busy to procure and use without involving the IT department IT products and services. Apparently, IT departments are increasingly pleased with a cross-divisional, business support role. In this role, IT is focused on particular data security, providing an efficient infrastructure and that there is no duplication of work within the company.

These altered responsibilities subject to the new role of digital CIO, the acts of all corporate divisions as enablers. Here the IT chiefs agree on the main technology trends: cloud, mobility and collaboration and data (big data). According to the report, already one-fifth of the world’s companies are moving to fully cloud-centered infrastructure. Almost half of the companies are already receiving more than half of their applications and their infrastructure from the cloud.

The CIO is one of the most demanding positions in business today. The digital CIOs are the pioneers of change. To be successful, they need now strategic partnerships within and outside of their company. MadeIT is well positioned to be their digital enabler.

MadeIT managed, and cloud services help your customer relationship will benefit from real-time big data analysis; further expansion of cloud connectivity; new possibilities to comply cloud services to the needs of individual organizations and sectors; and new security and professional services capabilities that will support all of these investments and CIOs thus enabling to take bold decisions that are required in their digital journey.

In response to the outstanding acceleration of the digital transformation, MadeIT has the right products and services in cloud, mobility, collaboration and data to accelerate the implementation of cloud strategy.

Information Management and Business Continuity in a Company

logoFirst, we would like to clarify what is business continuity. It is a plan by which a company or organization plans how to respond to any eventuality so that the interruption of their business is minimal. In that plan the processes that you need to put in place to ensure the least impact to a disaster.

On the other hand, we have the management of information, considered as one of the most valuable assets of an organization. It notes that the importance of this management is always closely linked to the availability of the same.

And when we talk about availability, we mean access to this information at any time, and to guarantee the integrity of it. For this reason, many aspects come into play as such as where such information is hosted, if there is a replica of it, or if the confidentiality and data integration is assured.

The fact that organizations pay increasing attention to these situations makes coexist different technology scenarios from the point of view of IT. Customized solutions mostly implemented at the customer with solutions that are mixed cloud model – pay per use with the benefits and guarantees of services.

Specifically, the managed services model provides businesses increasingly demanded features and services, such as:

  • Flexibility
  • Scalability
  • Security
  • Availability

It’s a natural evolution of the traditional IT organization to move more towards managed service models to reap the benefits of both technology and cost. From these trends, three key findings can be drawn:

  • The proportion of resources allocated to traditional IT (good own infrastructure mode or outsourcing) will decline in the coming years. This is because companies need an agility that the traditional model cannot provide, and should look at certain external service providers.
  • Cloud-based models, whether public or private, are preferred by businesses, due to the need for greater agility. Therefore, they will absorb the growth in the budget-tech enterprises.
  • The private cloud model is the one that will attract larger budget in the coming years.

And in this scenario, MadeIT stands out as a technology partner capable of providing end to end solutions. For this, MadeIT relies on its infrastructure of data centers, on which deploys its cloud services, which can be integrated with data centers customers.

Thus, different cloud models can coexist, and business continuity solutions guaranteed to unforeseen incidents. Security, both physical and logical, is a transversal value to MadeIT that helps to ensure such continuity.

Managed Service: The Model for Business Continuity and Business Resilience

logoA 20-minute interruption systems an organization can lead to losses of more than $15,000. Cloud becomes the most effective platform for the restoration of failures and data protection in case of disaster recovery.

Information technologies form the core for the development of new businesses in all economies in the world. The digital transformation is the challenge that CIOs and executive leaders of all organizations put on the table. While data security is increasingly threatened, what is the platform that is imposed for disaster recovery? Again everything is in the managed services cloud, but how to face these kinds of challenges for business continuity? Here are some keys.

Technology takes center stage in business

To the extent that technology takes center stage in business, risk and costs of data loss is greater. According to the IBM Global study on the Economic Impact of IT Risk, an interruption of 20 minutes can cost the organization over one million dollars. A major disruption, which lasts on average seven hours, may involve costs above $105,000 for a company that billed on average 2 million a year.

The resilience determines the competitiveness of organizations

The policies and integrated technologies to reduce downtime in enterprise systems constitute an active fault resistance and risks of data integrity. It’s no wonder that organizations are willing to invest resources to ensure that systems, data, and applications are almost always available; to protect them from risks ranging from human error to the weather.

These efforts into a strategy for disaster recovery and business continuity involves the recovery of infrastructure and downtime in systems. Concepts that are recognized as recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). Thus achieving business level ensure business continuity for its external and internal customers also face competition.

Cloud is positioned as the most effective paradigm

Cloud is positioned as the most effective paradigm for the deployment of policies and solutions for disaster recovery and improved business resilience under different schemes. Currently, companies can adopt plans for disaster recovery cloud models services ranging from the “pay as you go” to hiring a more complete and aligned recovery needs of each business where availability of critical data is guaranteed.

These models can help organizations control costs resilience while more easily scalable solutions flexibility to accommodate growth or times of peak activity.

Managed services provide a flexible way of adaptation to the environment and regulations

The contingency statement from the cloud can help organizations comply with government regulations and industry: as accountability laws, standards Consumer Protection, and data protection in the Payment Card Industry, among other industries and government regulations.

Outsourced disaster recovery

Gartner predicts that in 2018 the number of organizations that use an outsourced disaster recovery service, exceed the number of organizations that you use a disaster recovery in-house. This means that organizations need a service provider who has the vision and the ability to orchestrate suitable resilience solution from the combination of technologies and emerging services.

Digital universe is expanding

The digital universe is expanding, and ensure business continuity becomes more complex every time. According to Forrester, one of every three companies said they had suffered some kind of failure or disaster affected the continuity of their business. The problem is complicated, but the solution does not have to be.

MadeIT offers a wide range of quality hosting products, all designed to give you the very best possible conditions to host your site or to run your business. From small shared accounts, through reseller accounts, virtual private servers and up to fully managed dedicated servers.

We will help you get everything set up the way you want it and monitor it to make sure it stays that way. We also have 24/7 technical support and disaster recovery on hand to get you through those difficult situations that sometimes arise. You can count on us to keep you running.

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