Chief information officers (CIOs) should look to new managed services such as cloud computing over the next year, it has been claimed.
According to IT industry analyst Gartner, cloud computing is a technology which will fully develop over the next ten years but attention should be paid to it today.
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The organisation claimed that the innovation may be at a confusing stage today, although this should not deter CIOs from adding an "experimental cloud-based application development" to their portfolio over the next year.
Mark Raskino, vice president at Gartner, explained: "Mark those parts of your portfolio that are already helping to explore cloud - perhaps software-as-a-service business applications, web-based office applications or web-delivered laptop backup."
He then suggested that CIOs should pay close attention to post-implementation project reviews in order to learn how future deployments of the managed service can be better carried out.
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