TAG: cloud risks

Darren Cunningham, Vice President, Marketing - Informatica Cloud

Industry analyst Jeff Kaplan from THINKstrategies has been focused on cloud computing long before the term was coined and the bandwagon was full. I recently sat down with Jeff to discuss the market landscape, the evolution of cloud computing adoption, and the importance of integration to cloud success.

Hank Jones - Law Office of Henry W. Jones, III

Lawsuit pleadings deliver robust case studies of "train-wreck" software business situations. Studying lawsuits can save serious screw-ups in several segments of your business. One example is a big-bucks battle that began in 2009 and ended only days ago. It offers actionable lessons for strategy, product design, product development, launches, marketing, licensing, compliance, and exit events. Over $1,000,000,000 depended on a recent lawsuit in Austin, Texas between NEON Enterprise Software and IBM. What are its facts and lessons?

Darren Cunningham, Vice President, Marketing - Informatica Cloud

Informatica's CIO Tony Young recently noted that when it comes to adopting cloud-based (SaaS) applications, "you must have a governance and architecture model to ensure appropriate decisions are made." So how do IT organizations get involved in the inevitable shift to cloud computing without being perceived as a gate-keeper or even worse, a roadblock? Here are a few suggestions

Jason Liu, CEO - UC4

When CEOs and CIOs take the time to talk to their IT departments, they are surprised at the number of new complexities introduced by cloud computing. Software and cloud service vendors must understand the real-world business impact of the cloud-based delivery of IT services in order to help make these deployments successful at client organizations over the long term.

Mike West, VP & Distinguished Analyst - Saugatuck Technology

Saugatuck Technology research clearly shows that Cloud transitions typically impact the IT organization in very significant ways, affecting roles and responsibilities, organizational structure, governance, architecture, budget process, employee retention, asset management and customer relationships. In this article, we present an overview of the four key challenges we have seen CIOs handle as enterprises transition to the Cloud.