Reaping the Whirlwind, Technology Challenges for Tomorrow's IT Manager

Information technology managers play a key role in daily operations of a company. Their roles run from supervisory to company security roles (Denardis & Aksoy, 2007). With the ever-changing technology world, it is eminent that these officers are well versed with the daily happenings in the information technology arena. Globalization has made the exchange of vital firm information and data easily. Daily Inventions of business software necessary for firm operations are daily practice, making the already existing outdated instantly (Garson, 1999). Organizations system audit and control is necessary if a firm is too survive in this computer age. This will help ensure that organization vital data is safe and that system access is restricted to only the authorized users. The firm that invests in information technology will have an added advantage in relation to the other organizations. In this paper, I am going to expound some key information system avenues for technological advance. There are a number of emerging technologies expected to change the world. There technological effects will cut across various sectors. Many organizations are keen to making a general overhaul of their existing information systems betting on the new technologies (Denardis & Aksoy, 2007)

            In accordance to a report by market research media, NoSQL is a new technology under development. NoSQL is software used in data mining, military and genome databases. Its attributes are still under development and its transaction consistency is at the rise. There is also the development of Relational Database Management system (RDBMS), whose operations will be realized by 2015.Moreover, there is Cloud computing, a technology which has drawn a lot of interest. This is because is a form of technology which is meant to address the insecurity problems in the 21^st century. Cloud computing is designed to store unique data of a specific organization in a hidden location. The federal government is keen to using the device in their security system to curb hacking and store vital information in the cloud. AWS GoVCloud is the name designated to the USA security system. No company will afford the hacking of its systems and most of them will go an extra mile to acquire suitable software to check this vice(Denardis & Aksoy, 2007). Business empires are requesting developers of these new technologies to devise one for usage in the business day-to-day operations. Although cloud technology is advanced, traditional on-premise backup will be here for an unforeseeable future. These technological innovations are expected to come into operation from 2012 – 2015 (Hall & Singleton, 2004).Information system managers are tasked with consultancy roles to ensure that firms adopt only those technologies that will add to the revenues of these companies. This is because the main aim of business enterprises is to make profit. Other technologies that will advance online business transactions are under development and will come into force in the subsequent years (Hall & Singleton, 2004)..

The aforementioned advanced technologies affect the operations of firms in a big way. They cover all the stages of productions and guide operations in relation to data inputted (Hall & Singleton, 2004). Information managers therefore need to go an extra mile to ensure that they are well informed to assist them give a sound advice to their company management and to help companies recruit individuals who are well informed about daily developments in the information field. In addition, government ought to chip in and sponsor technological research. This can be a joint initiative with the private sector. Having a research team and tough brains will enhance response to technological threats and these elites will advance more innovations.

References

Denardis, L., &  Aksoy,P . 2007. Information Technology in Theory. New York:  Course Technology PTR.

Garson, D. (1999).  Information Technology and Computer Applications in Public Administration.NY: Issues and Trends, Idea Group Pub

Hall, J.,  & Singleton,T. (2004). Information Technology Auditing and Assurance. New York: South-Western Pub.