Forbes April 14, 2025
Change is a constant in IT—change driven by new innovations, new use cases, new problems and new solutions.
Over time, advancements from mainframe computers to the evolution of PCs to the rise of virtualization and the supremacy of the cloud—and even the move from desktops to mobile devices—fundamentally altered the very notion of enterprise IT.
Most CIOs are accustomed to this ever-changing reality, with many having cut their teeth when businesses looked to IT to oversee internal systems and a corporate, on-premises data center. With the hub-and-spoke model, responsibilities increased. Then, the cloud changed everything.
The cloud’s secret weapon transformed enterprise IT. Its magical ability to automate previously weighty tasks—from adding compute power to spinning up additional storage capacity—was a...







