40 seconds: Out of the silo, into the silo

Picture credit: onlinewoman

Picture credit: onlinewoman

There is a danger that a poorly planned migration to so-called cloud computing will simply see organizations jump from one set of information silos into another.

My favourite blood sport in recent years was to invite a well-known pioneering purveyor of hosted data services (the company name escapes me but it might rhyme with racehorse) to discuss the real challenges of properly integrating their offering with a mature enterprise systems portfolio.

This was never a welcome question and usually led to responses given through clenched teeth. Which showed exactly why it was worth asking.

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