As big data, cloud computing, mobility and data center management technologies evolve they continue to influence how organizations operate. IT Departments continue to manage IT Infrastructure but internal departments have increased their demands for rapid deployment, flexibility and the autonomy to execute the applications to do their jobs. When IT departments don’t meet their needs, some employees find ways to implement these changes on their own—employees “go rogue” with shadow IT.
Embrace Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions
IT Departments should embrace data center and hybrid cloud solutions to formulate strategies that allow marketing, human resources, finance and other departments to deploy applications quickly, yet retain enough control to maintain cost-control and security.
With innovative and efficient technologies comes the need for change within IT organizations in order to remain competitive. An article at ITProPortal further explores data center trends that CIOs should keep an eye on.
Cloud Computing Strategies: Managing Shadow IT
Some CIOs are open to the idea of allowing internal groups and individuals to sign up for software-as-a service solutions but with each new data breach news story the importance of IT involvement becomes more and more apparent. Many non-IT employees do not evaluate identity and access management, security compliance, data protection or the underlying cloud infrastructure providers when evaluating online applications—they just want to find a tool that will help them accomplish their goals. Hence, the implementation of shadow IT.
Jaikumar Vijayan at Computer World discusses how cloud services have created new challenges managing security risks, efficiencies and economies of scale—and why CIOs need a cloud computing strategy to reduce risks while still providing automation tools that other departments need.
