This is the title of a new report from Rocket Software. They surveyed 275 U.S.-based IT directors and vice presidents in companies with more than 1,000 employees.
Respondents were asked about their current IT stressors, their approach to modernizing their IT infrastructure, and how they plan to become more efficient and optimized in the years ahead.
What was uncovered was IT leaders focus on reducing risk, increasing efficiency, and optimizing their resources with hybrid cloud solutions.
The priorities reported were:
- Improve overall IT performance (60%)
- Data security (50%)
- Process risk and compliance (46%)
- Improve agility (41%)
Interesting (at least to me) was how they said they measured success for their IT function:
- Increased efficiency (71%)
- Optimized resources (67%)
- Reduced risk (63%)
Customer satisfaction was not one of the top three! I am used to seeing IT functions measure, for example, the age of the backlog – another metric not in the top three.
Seven focus areas were identified for this year:
- Hybrid cloud (65%)
- Data and content management (60%)
- DevOps (58%)
- Infrastructure and application modernization (58%)
- Automation (57%)
- Performance management (41%)
- Enterprise storage (35%)
There’s a section in IT risk management. After hyping the normal global cyber risk data (so much easier than…
