The cloud--it's not for control freaks

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Moving server software to the cloud has a lot of advantages. A company no longer has to worry about patches, deploying upgrades, and an number of other concerns.

But it also has one big downside--one that many CIOs are still struggling with--a the loss of control.

"They do lose control, when they move to a cloud-based service, of some things," Microsoft Senior Vice President Chris Capossela said during a lunch meeting on Wednesday. "They lose control of when things get updates. They lose control of saying 'no' to some new thing."

Capossela

(Credit: Microsoft)

Capossela acknowledged that many technology executives, even those who are shifting work to the cloud, see it as a mixed bag.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20001983-56.html

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