Buckle up IT: The enterprise needs you for cloud adoption
December 19, 2014
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Sharon Gaudin.
For years, people in marketing or HR have been sneaking their apps and data onto the cloud, totally bypassing IT’s approval or help. Buckle up, IT. Those days are coming to an end as more enterprises look into moving critical applications and information to the cloud. IT shops are being called in to corral all of those individual cloud projects, while moving critical data to the cloud, as well.
"Central IT departments are absolutely going to be more involved with how enterprises use, or don’t use, cloud services," said Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group. "In the past, individual departments or employees have used cloud services like a fat guy would use a buffet…
They’d use whatever service they wanted, when they wanted, and never run their plans by central IT." Market research firm IDC predicted that the worldwide cloud market, which encompasses private, public and hybrid clouds, will jump from $95.8 billion this year to $118 billion in 2015 and $200 billion by 2018…
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