Cloud Computing: Shadow IT – Far Bigger, Less Manageable And More Important Than You Think
April 26, 2014
Grazed from ReadWrite. Author: Matt Asay.
Shadow IT is widely considered to be a significant problem for enterprise IT, yet nobody knows how to fix it, or even measure it. After all, how do you control something that, by its very definition, is designed to evade control?
Shadow IT, which is defined as those systems that are bought or built without enterprise IT’s approval, has been accelerating as business executives demand the flexibility to get things done—and may now dwarf the amount of approved enterprise expenditures on cloud services. Is it time for the CIO to give up the fight against shadow IT, and simply learn to accept it?…
Shadow IT: Bigger Than Cloud?
By some estimates, and as I’ve written before, shadow IT is now 10 times the size of known cloud usage. And while there’s a temptation to assume this is "other companies," the reality is that your company likely has this problem, too…
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