How the cloud has transformed IT management
February 14, 2014
Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Editorial Staff.
The cloud is transforming IT management, whether organisations are building their own private cloud infrastructures or moving their data and apps onto external public cloud networks. This HP white paper examines what is happening as a result of this transformation and some of the issues we need to overcome in order to extend the cloud’s central role further.
IT losing corporate control
Traditional IT departments are losing corporate control of their data through cloud services. At first, this was a gradual shift, but is now a seemingly widening sea change in the way a whole organisation connects to the IT department. The rise of mobile and remote working, the BYOD movement and the uptake of cloud services – including ‘self-service’ on-demand functions like HR – have fed into this relationship change, and the bottom line is that the IT department will have to adapt otherwise it will end up as a non-entity in some quarters of the business world…
The days when only the IT department had the decision as to whether a particular mobile device or app could be supported on the corporate network are long gone, as other departments – like HR, sales and marketing – are increasingly being given the power to choose the IT they need to run their operations…
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