siliconindia | | March 20189ality, and new choices of where & how applications are hosted, CIOs need to establish a new balance of priorities to maximize the benefits and reduce the risks of operating in this new world.The CIO's Re-Balanced Priorities As large-scale mi-gration to the cloud shifts responsibilities away from mundane, on-premise IT operations and day-to-day deliv-ery challenges, the CIO's priorities will hinge on Data and Security, their Talent and Partner Ecosystem, and deliver-ing True Innovation.Data & Security Business Continuity Planning is more complex in an environment where backups and re-covery processes are spread across disparate providers and as more services migrate, Disaster Recovery arrange-ments will need to be re-thought.In the future, even a relatively simple process like payroll may span multiple cloud providers; in the event of a failure, ensuring backups can be reconciled, and manag-ing the sequencing of recovery to `last known good' will be a significant coordination challenge.Talent & Partner Ecosystem As applications are migrated to the cloud and on-premises infrastructure is scaled back, the skills that are required within the IT or-ganization will inevitably evolve.Cutting-edge operations expertise will remain impor-tant, but the emphasis will shift away from traditional IT operations and towards managing a web of interconnected providers. This will require a new breed of `digital archi-tects' able to see the big picture, while acting as evan-gelists for new technologies. Enterprise architects, for example, will increasingly be embedded in scrum teams, co-creating with the business and acting as mentors for developers.To prepare, CIOs should start to review what capa-bilities are required and begin to plan for the resulting changes to the size and shape of their organization and partner ecosystem. This may mean taking a broader view Begin developing the new skills and partnerships and putting in place the organizational changes required to manage an increasingly disparate technology landscape
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