C&S modernizes with wholesale shift to the cloud

Some CIOs approach technology modernization by deciding on a cloud platform, designing a blueprint, and executing it with their own IT staff, C-suite funding, and the hypervisor’s vertical industry experts. Other CIOs hand over most of the project to consulting firms: the old throat choke. [ Learn from your peers: Check out our State of the CIO report on the challenges and concerns of CIOs today. | Find out the 7 skills of successful digital leaders and the secrets of highly innovative CIOs . ] There is no right or wrong way to proceed. Whichever path is chosen, enterprises that are outsourcing their computing infrastructure to the cloud need a wide array of technical and business experts to exit the data center. The consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry is somewhat behind other industries in the race to modernize but supply chain bottlenecks and the pandemic’s unprecedented disruption have accelerated their need to digitally transform. Take C&S Wholesale Grocer, for example. The $27 billion, 100-year-old grocery wholesale distributor has seen the light on the importance of the cloud for modernizing its operations. And although C&S has a talented, ample staff of IT professionals, the distributor opted to last year to sign […]

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