IT leaders admit fear of failing when outsourcing to the cloud

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A group of CIOs at a Computing Dining Club event said that businesses view IT failures when outsourced as a bigger problem than in-house failures
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A group of CIOs at a Computing Dining Club event said that businesses view IT failures when outsourced as a bigger problem than in-house failures

A group of CIOs at a Computing Dining Club event said that businesses view IT failures when outsourced as a bigger problem than in-house failures

IT failures involving outsourced cloud services are more of a problem for CIOs' reputations than internal issues. That's the opinion of several CIOs at a recent Computing Dining Club, discussing...

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