Explore Sand Hill Topics: cloud risks

Larry Steele, Technical Vice President, SaaS - Savvis

Buyers tend to evaluate SaaS differently from other technology solutions because they view it as a simple procurement that doesn’t need in-depth evaluation or considerations of the underlying infrastructure. That's a mistake. Here are five aspects of underlying infrastructure that buyers should evaluate before selecting a SaaS solution.

Tarkan Maner, CEO - Wyse Technology

if you ask 10 different cloud vendors to define the cloud, you’re likely to get 10 different definitions. This has led to a lot of myths around cloud computing as well as differing advice about moving to the cloud.

Kathleen Goolsby, Editor - SandHill.com

Real-time performance monitoring is now available as vendors deploy SaaS applications to the cloud.

Bruce Guptill, SVP and Head of Research - Saugatuck Technology

Many businesses small and large have not yet accounted for the increasing, and increasingly variable, costs of bandwidth in cloud IT and cloud business plans, strategies, and spending. This will unnecessarily increase the costs of managing cloud IT and business.

Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Managing Director - THINKstrategies

The greatest barrier to broader user adoption of cloud-based alternatives to traditional, on-premise systems and business applications continues to be lingering concerns about data privacy, security. Salesforce.com unveiled a new Data Residency Option that could eliminate this obstacle to adoption.