File this story under "I thought I'd seen it all in this business."
A distributor recently approached us about moving their software into our Cloud. Naturally, I was pleased to take the conversation, and my eyes were opened when he explained why:
One of his customers, a Fortune 500 manufacturer, was insisting that all its vendors comply with the new EU privacy laws under GDPR. The distributor's on-premises system couldn't provide the stringent, required security assurances—so to keep the customer, he's moving to the Cloud.
