What The Egg McMuffin Teaches Us About Enterprise Cloud Computing
August 15, 2013
Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: David Clements.
Enterprise adoption of cloud computing is at an interesting juncture.Egg-McMuffin On one hand, cloud computing has unleashed a new degree of innovation, enabling line-of-business users to become incredibly nimble. Gartner last year famously predicted that CMOs would spend more on IT than CIOs within the next five years. We see that happening already in organizations such as Vail Resorts, where the CIO and CMO are collaborating to make consumer-facing apps that drive their business forward.
On the other hand, central IT departments face growing pressures to manage costs, security, and other aspects of governance that are critical to the overall success of their organizations. Robert Grazioli, CIO of SAP Cloud, recently wrote a great primer on tackling cloud fears…
This tension between a central organization that manages risk and line-of-business groups who are compelled to innovate isn’t new. We saw it in the ’90s with the advent of client/server software. And, as I learned on a recent trip to a Santa Barbara McDonald’s with my young son, it was present in the food industry in the early 1970s…
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