It is such a contrast to see some folks still debate about whether clouds are “secure” and “scalable” when at the other end of the spectrum I talk to clients who talk about “we are 60% in the cloud, and will be at 70% at the end of the year”
Even that’s not fast enough for Chris Barbin, CEO of appirio. He wants everyone to be at 100% – like his own firm is. As my upcoming book describes his team
“Most of his team comes from old-world computing, with experience at SAP, Borland, and Accenture. And like most converts, they are passionate—and impatient.”
This morning, they introduced an incentive to accelerate the move to 100% – at least around IT infrastructure
“ guarantee at least $1 million in annual total cost of ownership (TCO) savings for qualified companies that cloudsource their entire IT infrastructure to Appirio and the public cloud -- or Appirio will make up the difference. ”
Next Tuesday, I will be in San Francisco listening to the salesforce.com/VMware announcement. I want to confirm what I have speculated in my book. If it is what I think it is, it will make Chris’ job so much easier. People who are at 0% today will fight clouds a lot less. And those at 60% will accelerate their move to 100%.
