Look Before You Leap

The demands that businesses place on the cloud mean that it’s now doing more than ever, but it’s not always as simple as just making the switch, writes Quinton O’Reilly

Carmel Owens, general manager of Sungard AS

While cloud services have evolved in recent years, the industry has moved away from simple file-sharing processes to more complex, real-time collaborative offerings. At the same time, keeping those legacy systems and marrying them is something Carmel Owens, the general manager of SungardAS, sees as a major challenge.

“Probably the biggest move that we see is that move into hybrid cloud so how do you expand your legacy environment but at the same ...