How cloud computing can strengthen IT’s control

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

The rise of cloud computing means that many enterprise IT resources have moved out of IT’s control. Indeed, many people went directly to Amazon Web Services, Google, or Microsoft for IT services, bypassing IT altogether. IT leaders have no one to blame but themselves for this shift. Although there are certainly very responsive IT organizations, many more have not provided solutions at the speed the business needs.

When the cloud arose, users took the initiative and solved their own problems. I can’t blame them. Ironically, as organizations use more and more cloud resources, IT has a new way to reassert itself, even if users continue to get their own services. That way is the service catalog, a collection of public cloud and local services stored in a huge registry, much like in the days of SOA…

These services are tracked in terms of who can use them and how they use them, and the service catalogs become the single jumping-off point for building and deploying applications that use public cloud services, as well as traditional systems. IT can bring order to chaos, while still providing the benefits of flexibility and immediacy that got users to go to the cloud in the first place…

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