Why the Enterprise Cloud Needs Shadow IT to Succeed
March 4, 2015
Grazed from CIO. Author: Bernard Golden.
I stumbled across a ZDNet article by Larry Dignan linking to Rightscale’s 2015 State of the Cloud Report referencing how Azure’s use is growing and it’s now become an emerging No. 2 competitor to AWS, a la the famous Avis commercials of long ago, where Avis said “we’re number two but we try harder.” This aligns with the general perception that Microsoft seems to have gotten its feet under it and is charging hard into the public cloud.
After downloading the report, subtitled “Central IT is Taking the Lead to Broker Cloud Services to the Enterprise,” I believe the more interesting and important material is, so to speak, buried in the back pages — where the respondent’s adoption patterns and technology choices are surveyed…
Is IT Really in Charge of the Company Cloud?
And here, despite the subtitle, which implies that central IT is now taking the primary responsibility for cloud computing within enterprises, a different picture emerges — one in which central IT and business units hold very different perceptions of who is responsible for cloud computing decisions…
Read more from the source @ http://www.cio.com/article/2892813/cloud-computing/why-the-enterprise-cloud-needs-shadow-it-to-succeed.html