Entries Tagged as 'vendor viability'
by Jay Heiser | November 2, 2011 | 1 Comment
Its easy to imagine a smallish procurement shop in which the only person to have been sent a warning was on a 2-week vacation, and won’t get around to reading about it until it is several days too late to download their only copy of several years worth of past and current purchasing data.
Category: Applications Cloud risk management Tags: cloud failure, continuity, data loss, disaster recovery, outsourcing, recovery, SaaS, vendor lockin, vendor viability
by Jay Heiser | February 1, 2010 | 5 Comments
When the global financial services firms melted down in late 2007, much of the blame was attributed to an over-reliance on a highly-leveraged financial abstraction called a Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO). As described in a recent blog entry by Gartner analyst Andrew White, Cheap money, sloshing around the place, feeding an insatiable growth in demand [...]
Category: Cloud risk management security Tags: CDO, Cloud, cloud risks, cloud security, risk assessment, vendor viability