Bob Evans: Cloud Computing’s Deadly Vulnerability–And How To Avoid It

This one even trumps concerns about security, compliance, privacy, and management.

At several events in which I’ve been involved with more than 40 CIOs over the past few months, the most-talked about subject was cloud computing and the second-place topic was miles behind. Vendors of every stripe—from IBM and HP to Microsoft and Oracle to Riverbed and Informatica to Wipro and Capgemini and many many more—have developed full-blown strategies for building out cloud infrastructures, services, platforms, strategies, integration, and products.

CIOs are eager—extremely eager—to see if the potential of the cloud can be transformed into tangible business value that will help them deal with three extremely pressing issues:

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