IT grapples with personal cloud storage use
October 7, 2013
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Mary K. Pratt.
The CIO at Utah State University, Hawley says he and his team must serve the university’s employees and deliver the tools they need. But he realizes that many of the school’s users are finding outside options, installing unsanctioned applications that they find easier to use. "People always gravitate to the most functional or least-cost solution. And in our ‘freemium’ world, those things are available by the dozen," he says.
Hawley says he suspects that employee use of unauthorized IT tools is particularly prevalent these days, as telecommuting and bring-your-own-device policies become increasingly common. People everywhere are becoming more mobile. Empowered first by company-issued laptops and now by their own smartphones and tablets, employees of all stripes want to do their work from any location at any time with any device, and they’re turning to the cloud to help them do it — using hosted services to share, store and sync work files with just a click…
"These public cloud services, they’re ubiquitous, they’re available and they meet the needs better than any of the enterprise products out there on the market from [the employees’] perspective," Hawley says…
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