Video Interview: Balancing Cloud Decisions between Executive Team and Business Unit | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

At CloudConnect 2012, Everest Group’s Marvin Newell moderated a lively panel discussion on next generation IT governance. The panelists included Thomas Barton, Global Enterprise Architect at Novartis Pharmaceuticals; Jeromy Carriere, Chief Architect at X.commerce; and Erik Sebesta, Chief Architect and Technology Officer at CloudTP. The panel focused on the governance concept of holding on loosely [...]

Next Generation IT Governance: Hold On Loosely, But Don’t Let Go | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

In mid-February, I have the opportunity to join a great group of executives to debate how cloud computing will – nay IS – changing the way we need to think about IT governance. As you may know, Everest Group is chairing a track at CloudConnect in Santa Clara, CA, on Organizational Readiness. One of the [...]

Still Herding Cats: IT Governance and How Users Engage Cloud Services | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

End users. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. When procuring new IT solutions – a new opportunity for them in a corporate environment—they often like quick, flexible, and cheap. When working with current IT models, they value secure, scalable, and bullet-proof. Over the years, successful IT leaders have learned to help guide (read: [...]

You Want the Cloud? You Can’t Handle the Cloud! | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. This oft-repeated mantra is one of the many cornerstones of IT governance. It serves as a reminder of the importance of measuring those outcomes that matter. So what’s all the hubbub about cloud governance? It’s just another compute and software delivery platform, right? Governance is governance, [...]

Time to Call the Real Experts – What We Can Learn from Ants about Cloud Governance | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

IT rarely loves end users, and for good reason…they constantly invent new problems. They customize their laptops, creating unmanageable software Frankensteins; they bother IT with all kinds of new whims; they want to use all types of new mobile devices, each scarier than the previous one, etc. But the biggest reason of all is that [...]

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