In the dynamic realm of evolving business landscapes, CIOs and Digital Leaders play pivotal roles by spearheading technological advancements, adeptly managing cybersecurity challenges, and fostering a culture of innovation and operational efficiency. Their leadership ensures that organizations navigate the ever-changing landscape with resilience and strategic foresight.
CORE Media arranged closed-door sessions for business and technology leaders and Lenovo leadership at Lenovo Leaders Circle, in association with Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors to share insights on how CIOs are playing an increasingly important role in driving business growth. Their leadership involves aligning IT initiatives with overall business objectives, driving innovation, and managing infrastructure that supports organizational expansion, efficiency and development.
Anoop Mathur, Founder, CORE Media, started the conversation with Vikram Chauhan, Director & Head - Enterprise & Government Business, Intel, India; Soans Joseph Moonjely, India Business Head - Truscale, Lenovo ISG India, and Diwakar Trivedi, Segment Lead, Enterprise & Public Business, Lenovo ISG India on how future of IT enterprise relies on a resilient and secure infrastructure for business transformation. He spoke about the new responsibilities today’s CIOs need to manage while keeping in consideration the ongoing business challenges and transformation for future business growth.
As hybrid cloud adoption continues to grow, the discussion explored how CIOs can navigate complexities, balance data sovereignty and cost optimization, manage data access, and overcome obstacles such as change management, vendor lock-in, skills gaps, and regulatory compliance, highlighting the need for comprehensive leadership toward a resilient hybrid cloud future.
The session also offered insights into the primary challenge that businesses often face when streamlining their cloud adoption approach, which is the complexity of integrating existing systems with cloud infrastructure. This integration can lead to issues related to scalability, security, and data management. To overcome these challenges, CIOs should strategically approach cloud adoption by carefully selecting cloud providers with strong compliance frameworks, implement encryption technologies, and establish robust access controls.
Lenovo leadership further discussed how Lenovo ISG India can play a crucial role in helping organizations achieve a balanced approach to infrastructure management in their hybrid cloud strategy through comprehensive solutions that focus on optimizing performance, enhancing security measures, and ensuring cost-efficiency. Their holistic approach ensured CIOs that organizations can derive maximum value from their hybrid cloud infrastructure while meeting performance, security, and cost objectives.
Furthermore, Leaders addressed Lenovo ISG India's approach to cloud repatriation, which is designed to alleviate skills gaps commonly encountered during cloud migration. This approach empowers CIOs & Digital leaders to manage their cloud resources effectively, bridging skills gaps and ensuring a seamless migration process.
