By James Rubin, Contributor In the final segment of a panel discussion with senior technology executives, Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard focused again on the increased importance of risk sharing between companies and their IT vendors. Karlgaard asked if current conditions had made risk sharing a necessity in client-vendor relationships. “…We’re in this economic world where it’s very risky,” Karlgaard said. “The cost of getting it wrong is really severe. Combined with all these changes in computing – cloud-based computing, the role of Big Data and analytics, consumption economics hitting the IT space, (are) all these things coming together providing a tipping point, ‘you know we want our vendors to take the same risk we do and if we succeed, they get paid well and if we don’t success, we all suffer together?’”