Workers use ten times more cloud apps than IT thinks

Grazed from CiteWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.

Businesses are increasingly aware that employees are bringing apps to work to make their lives easier. But most might be surprised at just how many apps are being used without their knowledge. “Cloud computing is massively disruptive to the IT industry,” said Rajiv Gupta, CEO of Skyhigh. He said that on average, Skyhigh customers say they think employees are using between 25 and 30 different cloud apps when in fact they’re using 300 to 400 services.

Skyhigh, a company that detects what apps are being used inside the firewall, said it is adding 500 new cloud services to its database of services every six weeks. That’s right — nearly 100 new cloud apps pop up each week. Skyhigh is so confident that it will find dozens of unexpected apps in use by employees that it has promised it can find 30 cloud services unknown to the IT department in 30 minutes. If it fails, it’ll pay for 30 months of Netflix for the customer…

“Based on our experience, we don’t expect to be paying for Netflix,” Gupta said. Skyhigh, which only launched its service in February, is now collecting data about 2 million employees. Its service works by monitoring firewall logs in businesses. Customers run a script from Skyhigh that checks the logs, strips out confidential data, compresses what’s left, and sends it to Skyhigh, which analyzes it and sends it back. Customers can opt how frequently they want to run the script and can check their dashboard to see its findings…

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