Is IT Comfortable With Governing Cloud?

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Lori MacVittie.

Two separate surveys were recently revealed on the topic of cloud. One, from Exoprise, examined adoption rates primarily across software as a service (SaaS). The other, from Intermedia, examined rogue access in the cloud. When considering the two together, they paint a somewhat disturbing picture that presents considerable risk to organizations adopting SaaS.

Exoprise found, not unsurprisingly, a heft adoption of cloud in the SaaS market. In fact, it found that nearly 75 percent of respondents indicated their organizations uses or plans to use software as a service. That’s unsurprisingly given that most of the applications-turned-cloud being adopted are those easiest to commoditize — productivity, customer relationship Management (CRM), and Sales Force Automation (SFA). Microsoft Office 365 dominated adoption, with nearly 40 percent of all respondents, compared to around 23 percent citing Salesforce.com usage…

So far so good. Adoption of SaaS is nothing new, nor is the mix of application workloads surprising. But now let’s check on the Intermedia survey, which tells us "89 percent of the survey respondents retained access (that is, a valid login and password) to at least one application from a former employer. They named nearly every major app you can think of: Basecamp, Shopify, Desk.com, Office 365, Google Apps, MailChimp, WordPress, and many more."…

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