Shadow IT

September 16, 2015

CLOUD

Ostrich or Eagle: How CIOs Can Address the Shocking Reality of Shadow IT

3 min read

Recently, I had a conversation with a CIO and her team. We were reviewing the extraordinary growth of unknown and known cloud services within organizations like hers. She turned to her team and asked “well what should we do?” Some of her leaders said: “we can’t control it, so why should we discover it?” Others […]

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. […]

August 12, 2015

CLOUD

Demo: Experience Cisco Cloud Consumption

1 min read

Cloud sprawl is a BIG challenge. Large companies use 730 individual cloud services – a number which has grown a staggering 21% in just six months. If you don’t know by now what your organization is using, you need to! At Cisco Live US 2015, Haley Gallant of the Cisco Cloud Consumption practice did a […]

August 6, 2015

CLOUD

Do You Know the Way to Ballylickey? Shadow IT and the CIO Dilemma

4 min read

I was once on a driving holiday in southern Ireland. As anybody who has been to that beautiful part of the world will know, the scenery is magnificent, but the road signs can be very confusing. Totally lost I pulled over to ask directions to Ballylickey and a local farmer uttered the immortal phrase: “Well, […]

June 8, 2015

CLOUD

Cisco Cloud Consumption at Cisco Live!

1 min read

Cloud sprawl is a huge, growing challenge. On average, large companies use 645 individual cloud services, which has grown 17% in just six months. What’s crazy is when you ask...

May 3, 2015

CLOUD

Identifying and Solving the Cloud Sprawl Problem

3 min read

An interesting read for me one day last week was the Wall Street Journal reporting on the exploding yet ungoverned use of cloud services by employees in just...

January 26, 2015

NETWORKING

The Next Wave of CMX: Location Innovation, Scalability, and User-centric Analytics for Better Customer Engagement

2 min read

Technology is a funny thing: it enthralls some, mystifies others. As evidenced by CES and NRF, there is no shortage of gadgets and dashboards these days to help businesses solve...

January 23, 2015

DATA CENTER

Why Shadow IT is Dangerous to Your Organization

2 min read

Moving to cloud offers many benefits to organizations.  However, these benefits come with a corresponding range of new challenges for IT to address.  One of these challenges is what is known as “Shadow IT.”  Shadow IT refers to activities of members within an organization to secure their own IT resources without going through a company’s […]

December 2, 2014

DATA CENTER

Pros and Cons: Do-It-Yourself Approaches to Monitoring Shadow IT & Cloud Services

2 min read

Shadow IT is estimated to be 20-40 percent beyond the traditional IT budget. The ease by which organizations can purchase apps and services from cloud service providers (CSP) contributes significantly to this spending. This is an eye-catching number worthy of investigation—not only to identify and reduce costs, but to discover business risks. So, it is […]