[jnorthrop]

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.

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.

[billswift]

More accurately, there is a time and place for controls and discipline. You can have both without actual bureaucracy, or, more commonly, bureaucracy with neither of desirable ends.