This is the second in a series of posts covering our Softchoice Cloud Launch Event. You can read the other two posts here and here.
Perhaps the biggest change the cloud has brought is in the realm of expectation. What today’s end-users care about and – more importantly – expect is access: to applications, collaboration tools, pictures, video, anywhere and on any device. With only a browser required to access thousands of new SaaS applications, they also no longer require IT’s help to get what they want. In fact, at the very moment the cloud is transforming computing, IT runs the risk of becoming less relevant to end-users and, arguably, the business itself.As Softchoice CIO Kevin Wright makes clear from his own experience, getting ahead of the SaaS curve requires a shift in thinking. To stay relevant, IT needs to move beyond a mindset centered on controlling and managing infrastructure to enabling and governing applications for a growing list of stakeholders across the business.
