Moving fast in a changing world

How organisations deploy and use technology is changing fast, but moving the nuts and bolts of technology to a partner can be a creative leap forward for the IT department when it comes to contributing to the business. Jason Walsh reports

Today’s changing world, the rise of cloud and, with that, an increased willingness to “export” IT to external providers, is proving something of a double-edged sword for chief information officers (CIOs), said Tadhg Cashman, services director at Logicalis Ireland.

In short, IT has changed—and CIOs have been forced to change with it, he said.

“For instance, information security is clearly more of an issue in this distributed world,” said Cashman. “Which may explain ...