Here's a scenario that may sound familiar, particularly if you're privy to the inner workings of corporate management. A company's CEO wants to deploy cloud-based data processing technology, but his CIO balks at the idea, arguing the firm's data is too important to store offsite and in the ether. "I'm seeing a lot of disconnect there" when it comes to big data and cloud services, said Ryan Caplan, president and CEO of Coldlight Solutions, a data analytics company based in Wayne, Penn., northwest of Philadelphia. In a phone interview with InformationWeek , Caplan said that CEOs and CIOs often don't see eye-to-eye when it comes to cloud data systems. "The CEO is saying, 'I want this. Everybody else seems to be able to do it. Why can't I do it?' And the argument I hear from the CIOs is, 'Our world is different. Our data is different. Our data is too secure. Our data is too proprietary,'" Caplan said. In most companies, the CEO is the big-picture person--b... Read full story on InformationWeek
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