Morgan Spillane is IT & Change Management Director at AXA Insurance, a former consultant he’s been with the Insurance behemoth since 2002. He recently attended a CIO roundtable discussion on Dynamic Infrastructure and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Following the roundtable, CIO sent the attendees a questionnaire to gauge on the record their attitudes towards IaaS, below are his thoughts. Your name and job title? Morgan Spillane Your organisation? AXA Insurance Where is your organisation currently in terms of IaaS adoption? No adoption currently. Do you see great benefits for your organisation in adopting IaaS? Yes What concerns about Iaas do you have? Security, scalability, downwards not up. For IaaS to work in your organisation what is the primary business issue you will need to address? A fixed cost base associated with current infrastructure . Do you view IaaS as similar in CIO managerial requirements as outsourcing? No Is a problem with IaaS that as a cloud service, there are too many names for cloud services? No Is there too much hype around cloud and Iaas? Maybe IaaS offers CIOs another choice for delivering certain services, is choice always positive? Yes Response Summary CIO Debate on IaaS – Belgacom ICT leader explains how he delivers IaaS to CIOs Oddbins IT head sees merry future for IaaS Full Response Get involved Express your views on what the future is for email. To get involved, contact the CIO UK LinkedIn community Related content opinion Website spoofing: risks, threats, and mitigation strategies for CIOs In this article, we take a look at how CIOs can tackle website spoofing attacks and the best ways to prevent them. By Yash Mehta Dec 01, 2023 5 mins CIO Cyberattacks Security brandpost Sponsored by Catchpoint Systems Inc. Gain full visibility across the Internet Stack with IPM (Internet Performance Monitoring) Today’s IT systems have more points of failure than ever before. Internet Performance Monitoring provides visibility over external networks and services to mitigate outages. By Neal Weinberg Dec 01, 2023 3 mins IT Operations brandpost Sponsored by Zscaler How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty Now is the time to overcome the challenges of perimeter-based architectures and reduce costs with zero trust. By Zscaler Dec 01, 2023 4 mins Security feature LexisNexis rises to the generative AI challenge With generative AI, the legal information services giant faces its most formidable disruptor yet. That’s why CTO Jeff Reihl is embracing and enhancing the technology swiftly to keep in front of the competition. By Paula Rooney Dec 01, 2023 6 mins Generative AI Digital Transformation Cloud Computing Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe