CIOs and Cloud Computing: How IT Can Get Back in the Driver’s Seat
October 29, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: JP Blaho.
In October 2012, we had the chance to attend SunGard’s IGNITE Conference for CIOs in San Francisco, and in May 2013, we were lucky enough to go again. The topic of both sessions was enterprise cloud computing, but there was one striking difference: between October and May, CIOs (and IT in general) seem to have lost their seat at the table when it comes to making decisions about cloud computing in the enterprise.
In October 2012, the conversation in the room was about how IT can maintain the driver’s seat of infrastructure management, and steer corporate policy on cloud adoption and procurement of cloud services. CIOs discussed their challenges with departments within their organization going outside of IT and buying cloud services. One CIO pounded the table and said, “We have got to make people understand that they can’t just agree to public cloud services willy-nilly when there are a whole host of other considerations to think about, from legal to regulatory to technical.”…
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Fast forward 6 months, and in just half a year, IT has not only lost their seat behind the steering wheel, but it appears they’ve been kicked off the bus altogether. CIOs in the room lamented that not only were they not being consulted about adopting cloud services, they were no longer being told about these adoptions at all. Many lines of business within their organization had just forged ahead and invested in “shadow IT” organizations to meet their business goals…
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