Top Challenges Facing I&O Leaders in 2018, and What to Do About Them

Infrastructure & operations leaders are faced with significant challenges in 2018. If not addressed, these could have significant negative impacts on the business – and on their careers. The steps outlined in this research can improve I&O’s capabilities to more effectively support the digital business. Infrastructure & operations leaders responsible for building and sustaining dependable infrastructure should: Build a proactive hybrid cloud strategy by creating a set of cloud decision frameworks and processes to evaluate cloud computing opportunities based on business and workload needs. Plan today for the edge, and not the centralized data center, to become a growing, significant part of your digital IT infrastructure portfolios by accounting for the shift in workload locations. Link your data center successes to business successes by identifying the systems, services or applications that have the most direct impact on the company's mission and/or revenue. Improve decision making by weighing modernization options based on the challenges of employee retention, business value of affected workloads, and the cost and effort of migration. Establish the skills, tools and processes for a dynamic, hybrid environment by partnering with HR to conduct an inventory of skills and competencies, and to identify training opportunities and areas of potential vulnerability. Request Free!