The IT industry is changing fundamentally and we need to change with it. That’s the word from Paul Maritz, CEO and executive chairman of Pivotal, addressing the My World of Tomorrow (MWOT) conference on the subject of enterprise IT in the new era.
Every two to seven years, an unusually warm pool of water – sometimes two to three degrees Celsius higher than normal – develops across the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean to create a natural short-term climate change event. This warm condition, known as El Niño, affects the local aquatic environment, but also spurs extreme weather patterns around the world, from flooding in California to droughts in Australia and South Africa.
The chief information officer (CIO) of a company is no longer just the company’s IT leader, traditionally seen as the “chief techie in the back office”.
