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What Belongs To The CIOs Agenda in 2016: Prioritize IT Investments

The ever-increasing expectations of customers and the ever shorter innovation cycles have a fundamental reorientation of the IT landscape and the underlying unavoidable control mechanisms. The biggest mover among the technology trends in 2016 compared to previous years is the Design Thinking.

More and more companies use design thinking to target better their products and services to customers. IT budgets are an absolute top priority of CIOs. In 2016, however, the design thinking form the basis of many transformation projects that need to be orchestrated by CIOs.

Business Intelligence and analytics have long been one of the CIOs top priorities, and although new investments press on, it will also in 2016 be number one on the list. In Gartner survey of 2,944 CIOs from 84 different countries, CIOs responded that BI/analytics will be the first place for investment with 50 percent of CIOs had this area in the top three of their investment priorities.

Here are CIOs priorities for investment in 2016, according to Gartner:

  1. BI/analytics (39 percent)
  2. Infrastructure and data center (27 percent)
  3. Cloud (25 percent)
  4. ERP (21 percent)
  5. Digitization and digital marketing (21 percent)
  6. Mobile solutions (20 percent)
  7. Security (15 percent)
  8. Network, voice and data communications (10 percent)
  9. Legacy modernization (10 percent)
  10. Industry-specific applications (9 percent)
  11. CRM (9 percent)

While the mobile solutions and CRM are a lower priority of CIOs in 2016 than in previous years, there are also areas that they now prioritize higher than in the past.

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Biggest Challenges

When CIOs asked what their biggest challenges at the moment, the answer is that the lack of the right people and squeezed budgets. Nearly 59 percent of CIOs think we have a decided talent crisis, however, only 17 percent of respondents who actually believes that the lack of the right skills prevents them from reaching their goals.

The survey also shows that more and more CIOs are beginning to work with so-called bimodal IT where one splitter IT organization into two departments. It is done to be better able to work at different speeds and cope with both the traditional operation and the more agile and innovative IT projects.

Cloud Instead of Outsourcing

Traditional outsourcing contracts that promise guaranteed cost savings of 10 to 15 percent per year over a period of 5 to 10 years have become the significant exception. The demand for flexible cloud solutions, which are now also increasingly provided locally and which make it possible to respond to short-term changes in demand through appropriate consumption adjustment.

In the medium term, all new IT initiatives on new technologies such as cloud services, big data and analytics, mobile computing and social media will take priority. In the long term, budgets are increasingly spent on new things that were not feasible on the ancient architectures and technologies. New digital products and services will be in focus. A new information framework will be required to support the product development, delivery, quality, and growth.

By 2018, at least, half of IT spending will be channeled into cloud-based solutions. Without cloud services nothing will go in the future, because cloud forms both the basis for new digital products and services. To meet these challenges, CIOs should rethink their management model. In reality, hybrid cloud landscapes will be implemented that can be used to integrate and management for IT organizations.

Top 5 Keys to Reduce Your IT Costs With DedicatedSolutions

ManagedOne of the main challenges for any company in any sector and at any level is how to reduce costs. Proper use of the right technology at the right time, can help achieve significant savings in different areas of the organization.

The consolidation of infrastructure, migration of legacy technology and outsourcing services, among others, can reduce or avoid costs in you.

Below are the five keys that help you to reduce IT costs without losing efficiency:

Consolidate and virtualize infrastructure

With the consolidation of your infrastructure, you can harness the power of the cloud. Some of your heavy applications get migrated to our platform when you will get the security and performance required for each load job. Similarly, these platforms provide outstanding scalability for Big Data solutions, because it can search Hadoop in one secure partition, adding virtual machines that are necessary to solve complex problems in real time.

Private cloud

The second key is focused on the migration of your products to a private cloud that offer the experience of all solutions on a single platform, with security features, predictive performance, and scalability. You will get an environment that allows the flexibility of virtualization as standard, with specific resources to improve applications performance.

Outsourcing information

The outsourcing of different processes can optimize existing assets, improve service levels and meet compliance requirements and quality on a provider that delegate some functions and data that is critical or not critical to the business. Our consulting services offer data center and cloud transformation services, planning, design and implementation of data center transformation, automation systems, administration and corporate data storage and servers, among others.

Modernize applications

Customers can get more value from their applications, and take a giant leap in productivity (and savings) to regain control of their suites. Demand for custom applications and real-time responses increases complexity, duplication and encourages a lack of skills evident in many companies. It is better to use models such as SaaS, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) like ours to give a company the flexibility required without incurring the costs associated infrastructure modernization and licenses.

Secure your information

It is important that solutions are characterized by having the best quality of identification, security monitoring and geolocation so that companies can rely on the protection of data and physical assets. To know what kind of tools meet the basic safety requirements, we offer dedicated server hardware and cloud computing engineered to the highest performance standards.

Our custom solutions and support for private clouds, disaster recovery, business continuity and high availability provides the high performance hosting infrastructure behind diverse organizations in various countries worldwide.

As you can see, companies can improve the efficiency of the different processes of production, sales and administration; reduce costs and increase their competitiveness through the use of managed services, information and communication technologies. As an added value, its use is also very relevant in finding and communicating with suppliers and customers.

DedicatedSolutions Cloud: An Agile and Effective Solution for Web and E-commerce

Pressure on teams of information systems departments has never been greater and missions tend to move to support better the company’s growth ambitions. Beyond maintenance of computer systems, it is about agility, innovation and cost efficiency to meet the expectations of business and those of clients.

The need to expand operational efficiency and meet consumer demands require a faster IT operation for brands and retailers that put international development in neighboring countries or emerging countries as a priority. It is vital to have the ability to reduce the “time to market” to quickly generate growth in these new markets.

It is a real challenge for the company to dispose of adequate resources and technical expertise to manage in-house data centers, security, legal, content syndication, currencies or languages ​​of the countries where it operates.

To provide an effective operational environment, CIOs must be able to offer turnkey solutions, to capitalize the best practices to all regions and integrating local specificities. It is to avoid having to redevelop and support multiple platforms, technologies and custom developments in each new country.

While the consumer appears to have naturally integrated digital appearance throughout their buying journey, the omnichannel remains a difficult subject to grasp. The merger between e-commerce and physical commerce led these companies to streamline information systems and silos to provide an overall experience seamlessly.

Making the choice of a global platform and natively omnichannel allows you to make features that are found in stores on e-commerce sites. The modernization of trade requires a new type of infrastructure that supports multiple channels, diverse and evolving.

Today, one of the primary concerns of CIOs is to ensure the smooth operation of their trading platform. The Cloud is the most innovative solution adapted to the new challenges of digital commerce that allows IT to streamline effective and efficient infrastructure to implement rapidly innovative projects.

Companies that adopt a cloud solution reduces the complexities of multi-brand trade projects compared to companies operating a traditional software solution.

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Thus, the company can focus on what it does best – to develop its competitiveness, growth, and customer relations. DedicatedSolutions provides single server, multiple load balanced servers, and customized global solution that spread across various data center locations for your single website, social network, eCommerce platform or any of your small, medium, or large requirements.

DedicatedSolutions custom cloud offering includes:

  • Hourly or monthly billing
  • Single VM or resource pool
  • SATA to SSD SAN storage
  • VMware, Citrix XenServer, HyperV
  • Compliance hosting
  • Multiple datacenter locations
  • From 3 Servers up to 100s of server nodes
  • Migration and managed service
  • Cloud Stack, OnApp, OpenStack, and more cloud tools
  • Infrastructure consulting to help with planning and architecture

Our experts will help you to transform a single server as a web server. This option is recommended for small/medium website owners who require server scalability, security, and performance. DedicatedSolutions serves you better with our multiple load balanced server solutions for your high traffic website hosting requirements. We allocate multiple dedicated/cloud load balanced server infrastructure for your website hosting to ensure high availability.

Why Choose DedicatedSolutions Managed Services For Pursuing Business Innovations

35918The CIOs and IT teams today need partners who can solve their problems. You may need a complete solution to achieve a business objective or an IT service for a specific requirement. Managed Hosting services can provide both a comprehensive approach to innovation throughout the technology lifecycle, as well as a service that meets a specific need. Continue reading