A recent study from KPMG listed the threat of vendor lock-in as one of the reasons CIOs hesitate sending their companies’ data into the cloud. Walter van Holst and Mike Chung followed that report up with their in-depth look at the difficulties with which CIOs are faced by that phenomenon.
As I wrote in a recent article in Computable.nl,, we are gradually building up some experience in Cloud Computing which is permitting companies to evaluate the risks based upon the experience of others rather than on pure hype. We now begin to see areas in which even smaller “Davids” might be able to find room to negotiate when they face the “Goliaths” of the Cloud Computing world.

Op de halfjaarlijkse ledenvergadering van Nederlandse Vereniging voor Informatietechnologie en Recht (


