Much has been written about shadow IT at the business unit and employee level where the proliferation of cloud applications has all but eliminated IT’s control over what applications are used in their organization. The explosion of public cloud technologies has caused an identical revolt amongst development teams who no longer want to—or need to—wait […]
To Be or Not to Be – Shadow IT
Is it being an innovator, or demonizing business decisions to use other vehicles, and cry foul? Sun Tzu, the famous Chinese strategist and philosopher, once said, “If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.” These words ring true to the quandary that traditional IT organizations find themselves in […]
Eliminating ShadowOps
If you were like me, you thought that cloud and compute virtualization technologies were transforming the data center, but they are nothing compared to what is coming our way. The IT landscape evolution is accelerating with the advent of application containers, network and storage virtualization, big data, and integrated and hyper-converged infrastructures, to name just […]