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The CIO becomes more embattled.

As technology becomes more consumable, business units are seeking a larger share of the IT
budget, traditionally under the CIO’s control, and with the chief financial officer’s blessing. But
this is changing quickly as business units become much more tech-savvy. If impatient with the
IT department’s response time, many business units are using their own budgets and outside
vendors to meet their IT needs.

Consider the case of many marketing departments, for instance, that are running campaigns
employing advanced cloud-based technology platforms. When they need support, they lean on
the CIO, and the CIO often responds that there’s no budget for marketing’s desires or that they
cannot meet the request in the given timeline

CIOs will seek to become more sophisticated and agile in dealing with this trend. Already, some
are giving IT-level portals to departments and business units so they don’t go to outside vendors
to solve their needs.

For the rest of 2015, the rise in cyber warfare will more than certainly prove to shape the cloud
landscape, impacting the way we recover, store, use and protect data.

What other IT issues do you think the industry will have to watch out for this year?

About the Author

Chris Ortbals is vice president of Services Product Management at Sungard Availability
Services, a provider of information availability through managed IT, cloud and recovery
services.

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