SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin spoke at JasperWorld 2011 panel on the “New IT Stack” at the conference in San Francisco. Companies must figure out how to use social networking sites to bring conversations inside a firewall without exposing ERP data. Augustin cited cloud computing as a new development that offers users the opportunity to scale applications. Another panelist, RightScale CEO Michael Crandell, offered a mixed review of what is being done on the cloud. “Your most precious central ERP system is probably not looking to move out to a public cloud anytime soon,” he said.”]

