Transformation requires making big bets: EMC’s Jon Peirce – CIO

Jon Peirce was frank about the biggest driver that forced EMC, one of the largest technology providers worldwide, to transform its own IT operations: the threat of becoming irrelevant. “ When IT is a monopoly you don’t have to worry,” said Peirce, senior vice president, IT at EMC at the ANZ CIO Forum. 

But with a large tech savvy workplace, “If you don’t get the job done they take the matter in their own hands and work around it. “ We realised if we did not do something, we will wake up at one point and find the only value we were providing to the company was… a pipeline to the internet,” he said.