In some ways I believe that the adoption of cloud computing services within enterprises will take a very similar form to that which we saw for wireless networking a few years back. And for very similar reasons - convenience, cost and the lack of reliance on central, often unresponsive, IT departments.
So what should we do about it? Well, rather than let it get out of control which (let's be honest!) happened to a number of organisations with respect to wireless networking, organisations should be
i) adopting policies governing acceptable cloud usage and
ii) monitoring network traffic to ensure that no unauthorised cloud usage is occuring.
More to the point organisations should be doing this now - regardless of whether they have any organisational desire to embrace cloud services. Just because a central IT function does not fancy the prospect of cloud computing, there is no guarantee that projects and programmes will not strike out independently. Time to get a grip now, don't you think?
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