TECHNOLOGY
this translated to going from a fully in-house infrastructure to building partnerships with businesses that offer the modern capacity and high-tech security that suit today ’ s demands .
“ IT has a foundation in infrastructure and capacity , and what ’ s happened is we can no longer keep growing and providing it the way we were . It ’ s too expensive , and it ’ s being delivered in new ways now ,” says Fischer . “ In Nova Scotia , fiscal realities and reduced funding in this province are causing us to rethink our model . We can ’ t keep adding IT on premise if we don ’ t have the people to support it , and we can ’ t keep adding it under the assumption that it ’ s going to be safer and more protected here than it is on servers from Microsoft or somebody else who can do it at a scale that we can ’ t even dream of .”
“ When you see what the industry ’ s doing , you can either get on board with it and carve it out like we ’ re doing , or someone else will come in and sooner or later you ’ ll be marginalized to irrelevance within your organization ”
– Dwight Fischer , CIO
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