A Way to Win: Fast IT Research Highlights

Industry experts weigh in on their vision for the future of IT: Fast IT

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Padmasree Warrior

Chief Technology & Strategy Officer,

Cisco

Steve LucasPresident, SAP

Platform Solutions

Dr. George Westerman

Research Scientist, MIT

Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy

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Jaime CapellaManaging

Director, CEB

Rebecca Jacoby

Senior Vice President & Chief Information

Officer, Cisco

Zeus Kerravala

Principal Analyst, ZK Research

Bob Laliberte

Senior Analyst, Enterprise

Strategy Group (ESG)

J.B. WoodPresident and

CEO, Technology

Services Industry

Association

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“Increasingly, every company is becoming a technology company. If you’re a large organization and you don’t have great

technology in place it’s going to be hard to manage yourself and

keep up with competitors.”-Dr. George Westerman

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“What organizations need to do is transform that legacy environment into one that is much

more modern, much more agile and efficient.”

-Bob Laliberte

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“The Internet of Everything is going to create so much data, and it's going to create so many

opportunities, but if it creates unlimited complexity along the way, we won't achieve

very much.”-J.B. Wood

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“I think you can almost look at agile IT as the foundation of IoE (Internet of Everything).”

-Zeus Kerravala

“In this world of the Internet of Everything, there

are three key concepts that any organization, and especially CIOs need to think about: One is

hyperawareness; two is the ability to predict, or predictive capability; and three is

agility.”-Steve Lucas

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“The number one challenge facing CIOs today is

this relentless drive for agility. It's the constant

demand for people inside your organization and outside your organization to do more and

more things and to do them faster and faster.”

-Dr. George Westerman

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“It’s imperative that IT is able to respond much

more quickly than we have been able to traditionally because the pace of change in

business is rapidly increasing.”-Rebecca Jacoby

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“There's going to be a shift that's required in skill sets, maybe even in cultural and

mindset of letting go of what we've always done in the

past in order to adopt new ways of doing things- new technology, new processes, new work

flows that will enable organizations to respond to the

business much faster.”-Bob Laliberte#FutureOfI

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“Fast IT really refers to the fact that IT infrastructure

in the future has to be much more programmable, automated, orchestrated

and have the ability to really tie both physical and virtual

infrastructure together.”-Padmasree Warrior

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“There is going to a huge opportunity to drive down the cost of infrastructure.

Infrastructure is going to be about security, it's going to be

about scale, it's going to be about variability.”

-J.B. Wood

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“If you think about being a Fast IT organization

or the concept of Fast IT-- when I think about that,

the reality is it boils down to how you can make your organization faster and yet at the same time more simple. It's all about speed and

simplicity.”-Steve Lucas

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“If you don't get the organizational silos in order and understand how these things move

together, you're going to miss a big opportunity

in terms of how efficiently and effectively you're running your infrastructure.”

-Rebecca Jacoby

“The same principles that have applied in old IT apply in new IT; they're just turbo-powered.”

-Dr. George Westerman

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“The ability to respond quickly brings you into a different innovation paradigm.”

-Rebecca Jacoby

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“When you think of the concept of agility, you want

to have a fluid, dynamic type of infrastructure where our resources become

just as dynamic and just as fluid; and we're able to move them

around as business policy dictates.”

-Zeus Kerravala

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“Long term, the companies that are going to be the most successful are the ones where

business leadership is effective at exploiting technology

to drive innovation and produce competitive advantage.”

-Jaime Capella

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“So organizations need to figure out how they can spend more of their IT budget on those

innovative technologies, those enabling technologies that are going to allow them to

respond better to the business.”-Bob Laliberte

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“Technology doesn't stand still, nor should IT departments...”

-Zeus Kerravala

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“Ultimately, the Internet of Everything, the opportunity that it presents…Great

organizations will leverage that hyperawareness, that

predictive capability and that agility or ability to respond quickly. They'll leverage

those key tenets as a way for them not just to compete, but a way to

win.”-Steve Lucas

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