Managing customers’ expectations when moving your company’s application or service into the Cloud
In my last post, I outlined some of the challenges technology vendors often face when confronted with customer demands that don’t meet the vendors’ cloud providers’ contractual obligations. Now let’s talk about some of the strategies I’ve used to bridge these gaps when negotiating with the cloud service provider. Get your customer and your cloud [...]
Moving your company’s application or service into the Cloud? Beware of what your customers will expect
A number of studies I’ve recently read indicate that more enterprises will use cloud services in 2013 than ever before. This fact is not lost on many of my software vendor clients, who are transitioning many of their on-premises products into cloud-based offerings. The problem many of these vendors are facing is the inability to [...]
Cloud Architecture And Best Of Breed
As cloud computing becomes all the more pervasive, people are rethinking the idea of buying software and hardware suites in favor of best of breed approach. In a way, cloud architecture makes it easy to avoid the integrated stack lock-in as interoperability through open APIs is taken for granted in most cases. At Boxworks 2012, [...]
Cloud Computing and Multinationals
There are many posts in the blogosphere and media about the security and privacy issues associated with Cloud Computing. A big chunk of them are plain fear mongering by companies whose business interests are threatened by the proliferation of cloud based computing or by those people who are in love with such companies. I have [...]
Cloud Computing is Scary – But the FUD Has to Stop
Nevertheless, what I am seeing, and am not surprised by seeing is the standard reaction from some security professionals “no.” It is long past time to continue with the same old tired refrain of “no” and move on to where business is going. Security has been rapidly working on making themselves in a much more [...]
