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Q&A: Nimsoft CEO Chris O'Malley touts new 'supply chain of IT'

Outsourcing firms can help IT shops separate 'core' functions from 'chores'

Corporate functions from human resources to customer relationship management (CRM) have already been migrated to the cloud. But are you ready for systems monitoring and management in the cloud? More important, is management-as-a-service (MaaS) ready for your company?

As part of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant spoke with Chris O'Malley, CEO of Nimsoft, a CA Technologies company that provides MaaS capabilities. (Note: This interview is paired to a talk with CA Technologies' CEO William McCracken found here . O'Malley, who ran CA's cloud management portfolio prior to the company's 2010 acquisition of Nimsoft, talked about how MaaS is better at handling the new "supply chain" of IT and the need for IT executives to do a better job of determining which current IT functions are "core" - important to the success of the business - and "chore." Those chore functions are ideal for outsourcing to companies like Nimsoft.

O'Malley also described why Nimsoft -- unlike other CA acquisitions -- has to operate independently from its parent, how companies make the transition to MaaS and why smart CIOs will try to change the "union" mentality in IT. O'Malley also explains why virtualizing human capital is the next frontier for IT. (Note: O'Malley is also a blogger for Computerworld.com ; you can find his latest entry here .)

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