Two Views of the Cloud: End Users and Enterprise IT
April 9, 2013
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Paul Kapustka.
It’s easy to forget that sometimes even in a highly specialized audience — like the one here following enterprise mobility — there are divisions in opinion and in how a common technology, like cloud computing, is viewed. At last week’s Cloud Connect event in Santa Clara, I heard several speakers call this divide out in compelling fashion, and it made me wonder if culture is part of the reason cloud computing still faces challenges in corporate deployments.
Mark Hinkle, senior director for Open Source Solutions at Citrix, called out one clear division in a panel on cloud deployments. When viewing cloud services, Hinkle said, end users will typically gravitate toward a solution that provides fast and easy results. But for enterprise IT, he noted, "the stakes are much higher" for cloud deployments. "There are more things that come into play."…
Those things are, as most of us know, things like easier management, security, and other enterprise-level features that end users may not care about in their haste to "get work done." That may lead to line of business leaders deploying cloud systems that may end up causing more back-end headaches than they are worth…
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