Cloud Readiness: What CEOs Need To Know
October 20, 2016
Grazed from HostReview. Author: Kevin Castle.
The CEO hears it incessantly from his/her CIO in their weekly C-suite board meeting: “We need to get competitive and create a strategic architecture around our cloud computing technology.” Then, the landslide of questions begins: Public or private cloud adoption? A hybrid? Cloud migration? And what to do about effective integration?
These and related questions are increasingly becoming a challenge for not just the IT executive, but the corporate chief is finding himself or herself intimately involved in making decisions about the company’s technology direction. According to a Forbes piece: “Close to two-thirds (62 percent) of 500 mid-market executives say their company’s C-suite leaders have ‘some’ level of involvement in the adoption of next generation technologies.”…
Yet, deciphering these complex subjects depends on the CEO being cloud-ready and understanding the key tenets of the technology, as well as its promise and pitfalls in key areas, including:…
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