| | JULY 2016810 Most PromisingEnergy ManagementE ERGYTech ReviewTChange and the CIOBy Patrick Ciganer, CIO, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)The past decade has brought more significant transformational and disruptive change to the information management and technology environment than has been seen since the advent of the personal computer in the 1970s.Cloud computing, big data analytics, commodity information technology (IT), and high-speed, real-time, mobile data access are all capabilities that have become increasingly ubiquitous since the early part of the century. Coupled with enhanced cyber security challenges and growing network complexity (such as BYOD - Bring Your Own Device) and related vulnerabilities, the environment in which the current slate of chief information officers (CIOs) have to operate is significantly different from the long-established model of centralized functions and operations.In many cases, the broad availability of these new capabilities has enabled individual components, within large and often distributed organizations, to develop fast and effective local IT solutions dedicated to addressing individual issues. Unfortunately, those "shadow systems" potentially bring inefficiencies into the overall enterprise information management process through possible duplication of efforts and lack of transparency. When several components are trying to solve the same problem (for example advanced asset management), adopting different­and often incompatible­solutions will most often fail to meet enterprise-wide integration requirements in data integrity, security, scalability, and support.From a strategy perspective, most organizations aim to develop medium - and long term IT and management Creating and regularly updating an enterprise cloud strategy that identifies long-term core-user requirements is a solid broad-distribution information mechanism that can help capitalize on the opportunities represented by the cloud>Patrick CiganerIN MY OPINION
< Page 7 | Page 9 >