| | JULY 201919CIOReviewCould you give an overview of a CIO's role in terms of revolution within an IT organization?The way I see the CIO is that from a Chief Information Officer, you need to become a Chief Influence Officer along your journey. The influence only comes when you speak in business language--how you excite your counterparts in management so that people see you as an outcome-based person who can actually drive the adoption of technology to solve business problems. Once you become a trusted adviser, the next transition is becoming the Chief Innovation Officer. How does the cloud help companies promote the connected car revolution?There are two points. First, it's about the infrastructure. When we drive our autonomous cars, we collect petabytes of video data which are different from traditional, well-defined transactional data, for example. One of the challenges that we were running into is each of our engineering centers had to create their own infrastructure to crunch and collect this data. Now we are working with a couple of big public cloud providers and we move this data real-time. We keep the computing and storage in the cloud and serve through virtual desktop infrastructure. Secondly, the cloud greatly helps the autonomous vehicle industry in the development of intuitive applications for end user consumption. The whole design philosophy is going to change as more and more cars become connected. How would you define cloud adoption advantages from a business perspective?Business is all about the outcomes. By adapting to the cloud, you are actually forced to stay on the modern versions of the software provider's platform. If you have on-premise software, the tendency is to customize it with a lack of governance but when you make a commitment to the cloud you are adapting to the best processes within the industry. You are constantly leveraging product vendor innovations.Previously,it used to take weeks to provide a new server or new application. The time has come down now from weeks to days and sometimes into minutes, which helps make the digital transformation much easier. How can data processing be leveraged using cloud to deliver value to end users?The thing that's changing the whole industry is the adoption of deep learning within the automotive space, and that requires a large amount of training data. You have to have lots of real-time driving and simulation data that should be fed into the CONNECTED CAR REVOLUTION THROUGH CLOUDBy Raman Mehta, CIO, Visteon CorporationRaman MehtaCIINSIGHTS
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