Social, mobile, cloud, analytics, Internet of Things, bimodal IT; digital transformation is reshaping the competitive landscape around us, and CIOs are increasingly being challenged to offer more than ‘just’ infrastructure support. They must keep the lights on and be a catalyst for innovation and growth.

What is needed, agreed our 25 roundtable participants – information technology leaders from such diverse worlds as banking, entertainment, manufacturing and utilities – is a new approach. One that blends the best of on- and off-premise worlds: the security of owned, the agility of as-a-service. This is hybrid IT. And this is why CIOs are increasingly choosing it…