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By Sonny Garrowitz
Gartner Research cautions CIOs about facing the risks
involved in Cloud sourcing and managing those risks. In a collection
of research from Gartner, topics covered include:
IT OutSourcing
Cloud Computing
IT Risk Management
Sourcing Strategies
Contract Development
Vendor Risk Management
In this collection of research,
a fairly complete accounting is done of Cloud Sourcing and it tries to examine
the pluses and minuses out there for CIOs, while weighing the benefits and
risks of utilizing cloud services. According to Frank Ridder, research president at Gartner, “Cloud
computing is driving discontinuity that introduces exciting opportunities and
costly challenges. Organizations need to understand these changes and develop
realistic cloud sourcing strategies and contracts that can reduce risk.”
In the end, Gartner
indicates Cloud computing is indeed the way of the future for most CIOs and some
of the findings are revealing both in scope of Cloud Services influence on IT
and in the nature of the way the Cloud will shape the future of IT:
- Cloud computing will influence a
faster acceptance of Open Source Software and Younger Talent will be needed
within IT Depts. to work on newer solutions.
- Certain Enterprise functions
will be outsourced in the new world of cloud computing… • Enterprise social
networks• Next-gen mobile apps• Multi-enterprise collaborative services• Social
intelligence apps.
- Leading accelerating
factors for cloud:• Client/server, on-premise-based license sales in Western
markets still anemic - Major ongoing supply-side consolidation - Service models
no longer “lunatic fringe”
- Certain key characteristics of
“as-a-service” cloud technologies will grow in time: • Pay as you go/use• Turn
on/turn off as you wish• Multi-tenant and not simply an outsourcing of apps.
- Cloud
computing may elevate the leadership profile of the CIO. Especially since, it requires more managing
and less back end work.
$112 billion is what
enterprises will spend over the next six years cumulatively on cloud-related
technologies such as SaaS, PaaS and Iaas.
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