68% of the Fortune 100 are Clueless

My first thought was "is there any actual content in among the buzzwords". My second thought was "what's he trying to sell". Apparently, cloudability is a service that allows you to track your "cloud" spending, which seems totally useless to me. I mean, why should I track SaaS and Amazon S3 backups in the same category, but leave off $1000 Yourkit license in some other category?

&#62; We need better tools that let companies understand and budget for the cloud money they are already spending while at the same time letting end users sign up for the services they need to do their jobs.<p>This kind of tool would be aimed at precisely the market that would never pay for it.<p>If employees need to circumvent company policy to use Basecamp, the only way in which such a tool would be used is to identify culprits and get them back in line.<p>edit: on the other hand I would love a startup to prove me wrong :)

The surprising thing to me is the lack of concern over the security of cloud services. There are real risks in not having proper data segregation or even know in which country your data is stored in. Or what the security at the data center(s) is like.<p>Subverting the bureaucratic channel at a large corporation to "get on the cloud" must drive the CPO and CSO nuts. There is a time and place for bureaucracy.

You might think they are clueless but there is a method to IT's madness. I would not recommend publicly trashing anybody in corporate buying chain if you ever plan to go upscale and sell your services for 7 figures at CIO's level. Nobody appreciates being publicly called a fool.<p>CIO's job is to manage massive resources and organizations - first and foremost to keep the critical line-of-business systems running. For most of them cloud right now is neither the top priority nor a viable substitute for core infrastructure. You are right on with your strategy to get foot in the door to circumvent their slow-moving processes. However you should be thinking of how to work yourself into their higher-level planning process instead of positioning yourself as adversary of their corporate policy by calling it stupid.<p>Just remember, the CIOs have the power to ban technologies that sneak out through the back door. Alienate them at your own peril!<p>EDIT: Whoever down voted this, please post an actual substantive rebuttal.

Our post on how "rogue" cloud services are making their way into the Fortune 100/500/50 ... a response to 37Signals blog.

So, how do you pitch the CIO on something the company is already using?<p>Salesperson: This software is so easy and ... CIO: Won't it be a big learning curve Saleperson: Well, actually, your company is already using our software

So does "the cloud" mean "web applications or services" now?