Hybrid and remote work have amplified the impact of distributed and complex IT environments. Running workloads and applications across both cloud and on-premises infrastructure presents challenges when viewed against a backdrop of evolving priorities driven by local market regulatory and maturity, and an IT team that must ensure business continuity without straining available resources.

IDC says as more and more mission-critical workloads move to connected cloud architectures that span public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, enterprises need to invest in the tools that will help them ensure consistent policies and performance across all platforms and end users. 

Achieving these will be no easy undertaking as heads of IT face recurring issues including budget, time constraints, and barriers to implementing observability as a strategy to keep pace with hybrid IT realities. 

In today’s PodChats for FutureCIO, we are joined by Sudhakar Ramakrishna, President and CEO of SolarWinds.

1.       What does the report, Getting IT Right: Managing Hybrid IT Complexity, tell us about the state of technology that we are in today?

2.       IT complexity – is it fair to say that the position we are in today, this complex web of infrastructure, process, people and regulation, is of our own making and we can only point the finger to ourselves?

3.       If yes, how should enterprises approach the management of such complex environments? 

a.       What are the barriers to simplifying the management of IT post-pandemic?

4.       What remains the biggest challenge for the CIO in terms of reigning in this complexity? 

a.       How does he or she get leadership buy-in?

b.       How does he or she get everyone else to adapt to what may well be a new way of managing IT?

5.       Finally, we are coming to 2023, what do you anticipate will be issues that the CIO needs to work with the CTO (and other members of the leadership) to ensure that technology supports the business despite the uncertainties?