Companies Finally Listen to Their Employees – At Least When it Comes to Cloud Computing
March 6, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.
People have actually been using cloud services for years. When they’ve needed to conference with each other, they go through third-party providers such as WebEx or On24. Apple iTunes has been popular for years. Now, people use cloud for many other personal needs. When they need to store files, they use Dropbox or Amazon — or move everything into Apple iCloud. And who doesn’t have a Gmail account?
The bottom line is people have become comfortable with cloud, and this level of comfort is percolating into corporate policy. In adopting their own personal cloud computing-based applications, employees are now driving their organizations to cloud as well. Who says companies don’t listen to their employees?…
A recent survey of 1,242 IT professionals surveyed by CDW found plenty of evidence of tails wagging the dogs, so to speak. Among this group, 479 organizations, or 39 percent, either already have cloud computing or are implementing one. Last year at this time, 28 percent either had or were moving to cloud. Close to three-quarters, 73 percent, say employees’ personal use of cloud apps and mobile devices has “significantly influenced their organization’s decisions to adopt cloud computing,” the survey finds. And 63 percent agree that employee use of cloud apps/mobile devices is actually making their organization move faster to the cloud…
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