One of my favorite side projects in the cloud industry is meeting with technical leaders, mostly CIOs, and talking to them about the huge change that is coming with Cloud.

CIOs have already been faced with several major challenges.  We’ve seen huge cuts to IT budgets, the increased pressure to tighten security and compliance, and ofcourse, the rise in social media and mobile devices.  It’s not easy being a CIO these days.  Now cloud has come along and there is increased pressure for them to leverage these new methodologies to make the organizations lean, mean and innovative.  No pressure. Continue reading →