CIOs Face Cloud Computing Challenges, Pitfalls

Grazed from CIO. Author: Ann Bednarz.

There’s no easy path to the cloud for large companies with decades of legacy IT investments. Roughly 20 percent of Progressive Insurance’s business applications run in a SaaS model, while 80 percent run on the company’s own hardware. On the infrastructure side, Progressive uses IaaS, but mainly for experimentation.

It would be “a whole new ballgame” if Progressive were some medium-sized business that didn’t have an extensive data center footprint, says CIO Ray Voelker, but “we already have assets we own that we can leverage.” Chris Drumgoole, chief operating officer for cloud at General Electric, says legacy is “where it’s more interesting for us; we need to be more thoughtful there.”…

Most new apps — over 90 percent of those deployed so far this year — have been in the cloud. “That’s the de facto place to deploy apps for us,” he says…

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