cisco cloud consumption

September 11, 2015

CLOUD

Shadow IT and Breaking a Rule or Two

5 min read

During my college years, I worked for a major US airline. It was a great job but could get a little rough when faced with cancellations, overbookings, missed connections, etc. However, when faced with challenging situations I was always very calm. I recognized the passengers emotions associated with the situation were mostly because they had somewhere […]

August 24, 2015

CLOUD

What Are The Riskiest Cloud Services?

3 min read

We’ve known for years that employees and lines of business are bypassing IT departments to get the cloud services they want. The good news is we can finally quantify how much shadow IT exists in an organization and identify any risks. Large customers actually use 730 individual cloud services on average—with some using over 1,000. […]