Expect the unexpected – prepare thoroughly when negotiating cloud contracts! Takeaways from the X-change of 04 June 20
Cloud adoption is running at full throttle in today’s corporate world: cloud, hybrid IT, multi-cloud are all attracting their fans. But cloud is not ‘one per customer’: a large organisation can use over 20 clouds and manage thousands of cloud accounts. This complexity comes with many challenges. To meet them, you need to start at the very beginning: during your cloud contract negotiations.
04 / 06 / 19
In this session, we zoomed in on the hurdles in the negotiation process. Our experts shared insights and expertise, while real-life cases from Etex and Coca-Cola revealed their conversations with cloud vendors. Rounding out the event, we looked at Beltug’s new paper with exit clauses to consider for your cloud contract (which will be published soon).
Presentations are available to Beltug members (after log-in):
- Crowell & Moring presentation: Data protection hurdles when negotiating cloud and IT contracts
- Coca-Cola presentation: Case: Vendor governance and financial treatment for cloud agreements @ Coca-Cola
- Etex presentation: Case: Cloud negotiation lessons learned @ Etex
- Miradores presentation: Outsourcing versus public cloud: two separate worlds