Box.net CEO Continues the Discussion about Cloud in the Enterprise

This post was written by Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box.net  on thier own blog site to clarify his position on some controversial and interesting comments posted at TechCrunch as a response to his incredible blog post.

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Executive Summary : 

1.- Cloud vendor’s very existence hinges on their ability to protect data and have as little server downtime as possible - it’s their primary competency.

2.- Many large SaaS providers today are SAS70 certified, which includes regular auditing by third parties on all aspects of security - from network firewalls to authentication policies to procedures for employee termination

3.- Storing business data in the cloud requires rethinking security, and we’re seeing a lot of innovative IT professionals begin to embrace this new approach

4.- A serious perk of using cloud-based platforms is that they’re far easier to integrate - whereas traditional enterprise software integrations are tedious, requiring significant IT time and even consultants for systems integrations, cloud services take an open platform approach, making integrations seamless and more effective.

5.- The cloud will tip when this trend extends to the enterprise, and we’re already beginning to see significant traction with large-scale deployments of Google Apps and the dominance of Salesforce as a CRM solution

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The Coming Tornado: Cloud in the Enterprise

This post was written by Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box.net. on TechCruch on January 10, 2010.

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Executive Summary : 

1. Cloud-based services are about to tip for the enterprise, and quickly.
2. Today’s web-based platforms are finally maturing into real, viable solutions for businesses.
3. Over the next two years, enterprise IT will follow in the footsteps of today’s early adopters and visionaries, finally embracing the Cloud and moving content, applications, and processes to the web.
4. Managing infrastructure and technology that is not competitively-additive has become competitively-expensive.
5. IT experts are redefining their roles and priorities from directly maintaining all the “contextual” applications around their business (CRM, email, file servers, search) to honing in on technologies that are core to their company’s performance and competitive advantage.
6. There is no question that Security concerns and a fear of relinquishing control of data and applications are still holding back adoption of cloud technologies in the enterprise. But traditional IT has never been fully secure either, and Cloud IT providers have a number of mechanisms at their disposal to improve lock-down procedures on all fronts – plus, their business survival hinges on reliability and security.
7. The Cloud is inherently scalable.
8. Internal infrastructure can take months to set up, but cloud solutions can be online within hours.
   
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