Leveraging Office 365 also helps streamline
email, a directive many CIOs are receiving from their CEOs, as the average office
worker now receives 121 emails per day,
according to research from the Radicati
Group.
“With a sound implementation, full organizational buy-in, a robust user education
strategy and, in some cases, help from
an IT services partner with the necessary
expertise, every day with Lync can be a
great one,” wrote Kevin McCarron, Director
of the Business Innovation Group at Atrion
in a recent blog post.
2. Emphasis on Detection
and Response for Security:
For years, prevention was the top information security priority for CIOs and CISOs;
organizations used most of their resources
to ensure attackers could not exploit
vulnerabilities and gain access to their
networks.
Prevention remains an important pillar of
a security strategy, but the rapidly increasing
number and complexity of attacks
have made it unrealistic for businesses
to completely protect against breaches.
In fact, a recent report from the Ponemon
Institute found that the average U.S. firm
experiences an average of 138 successful
attacks per week. As a result, IT leaders need
to start placing greater focus on security
strategies and solutions that detect and
mitigate breaches when they occur, thus
limiting costly downtime and data theft.
3. Embracing IT co-sourcing
and outsourcing models:
Increasingly, CIOs and senior IT leaders
are turning to third-party IT services firms
to achieve certainty in their environments.
In fact, a recent report from TechNavio
predicted that the global managed services
market will expand at a 13.7 CAGR from
2015 to 2019.
The pressure has never been greater for
CIOs to drive successful business outcomes
by leveraging technology solutions that
function optimally 24/7/365. Consequently, many leaders are turning to third-party
vendors for expertise in areas of technology—such as next-generation data center
projects that support the cloud—that their
in-house team may not possess.
“Over the last five years, we’ve seen a huge
movement toward the co-sourcing or
outsourcing model,” notes Ken Brindamour,
SVP of Service Delivery at Atrion “And this
macro shift makes sense. After all, there
are a number of struggles CIOs face daily that keep them from running IT at peak
performance.”