I was featured this week in a great new article by Joe McKendrick – who I am a big fan of – after I expressed some issues with a recent survey that asserts Fortune 500 CIOs are seeing mainly positive results from their cloud computing efforts. Not so much that there is not success, but who is in the position to make that call…
Andi Mann, vice president for strategic solutions at CA Technologies, for one, questions whether CIOs are the right individuals to talk to about the success of cloud computing. And he takes the original Navint Partners report – which was based on qualitative interviews with 20 CIOs – to task.
“Twenty CIOs are happy, so far, with cloud computing. But what about their bosses, their employees, their organization’s partners and their customers?” he asks. “Are they happy?”
There is a lot more in the article, so you should real it all over at Forbes – What It Will Take to Sell Cloud to a Skeptical Business