Mobile users, digital transformation and internetscale business demands an agile, leading-edge response from today’s enterprise. But large backend systems struggle with rapid change, tasked as they are with delivering reliability, security and compliance. As a result, South African organisations are fast realising that two-speed IT is essential if they are to cope with new pressures while keeping their enterprise systems solid and compliant. Brainstorm asked CIOs and CFOs from a number of industries how they cope with keeping the plates spinning at different speeds.

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