'Hey You, Get Onto My Cloud' Excerpt

Author Mike Lingo makes a solid case for cloud computing in “Hey You, Get Onto My Cloud: How Moving I.T. Makes Your Business More Efficient, Agile and Secure.” This excerpt is from the first chapter of Lingo’s book, “The Empire Strikes Back: Unleashing IT as an Innovation Center.”


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Mike Lingo is Chief Technology Officer and SVP, Professional Services at Astadia, a cloud computing consulting firm specializing in marketing automation, sales enablement and compensation and cloud transformation.

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From Mike Lingo | Oct 22, 2010

"...IT has an even more important role with the business in a Cloud environment. CIO's now have at their disposal more power to increase productivity and profitability across the enterprise, more effectively integrated with the business than ever." – Mike Lingo, "Hey You, Get Onto My Cloud"

With the quote above as a central theme, author and Astadia CTO Mike Lingo makes a solid case for cloud computing in "Hey You, Get Onto My Cloud: How Moving I.T. Makes Your Business More Efficient, Agile and Secure."

With the potential to be freed from the constraints of having all information technology infrastructure under one roof, CIO's moving to the cloud can reclaim time and resources that they can devote to transforming IT to a source of lasting innovation.

This excerpt is from the first chapter of Lingo's book, "The Empire Strikes Back: Unleashing IT as an Innovation Center."

The attached Zip file includes:

  • Intro Page.doc
  • Cover Sheet and Terms.pdf
  • Hey You, Get Onto My Cloud Excerpt.pdf
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