The 3 stages of cloud computing resistance
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.
How do many enterprise IT departments approach cloud computing? Their path mirrors that of a person going through the stages of grief: denial, anger, and acceptance.
Stage 1: Ignore the problem
When retail-oriented public cloud providers began to emerge several years ago, there were those in the enterprise who needed ways to share and collaborate with colleagues on documents and files. They picked up cloud services by Box, Dropbox, Google, Apple, and others. Enterprise IT responded by "allowing" the use of these clouds, as long as it didn’t know about it — tech’s version of "don’t ask, don’t tell."
Stage 2: Overreact to the problem
More recently, many IT organizations have cracked down on the use of personal clouds, by enacting policies that explicitly forbid it, by blocking access altogether, or by doing both. Users had to go back to implementing "sneakernets," emailing files, or adopting other less-than-productive approaches. In more enterprises than you’d suspect, users commonly bring in their own mobile hotspots to get around the corporate firewalls…
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