Cloud Computing may lead to conflict of interests and strategy; CEOs and CIOs/IT Managers to lock horns
By Tarry Singh at 10 February, 2009, 6:06 am
When I read stuff like this all I think is: “Here we go again!” With virtualization the battle to make people understand is the worst one, everything else goes pretty smoothly. Cloud Computing has become the ultimate platform, or will eventually become the fully mature platform, where hybridized services will jump across providers to providers like you and I play around with our telephony/ISP subscriptions.
Obviously smarter managers must pose smarter questions [Duh!] and argue/discuss about security, But surely they lack arguments there as well since internal IT and internal DLP policy are…..well, not in place! All they have left is , indeed as the article says “fiefdoms” and this is something they just cannot let go. Unfortunately this time , which an economy, which is coming in a big way towards EMEA and APAC, will severely impact the competitive edge of every single IT department. And you know something–this competitive edge is called “survival” this time!
Despite these arguments, IT managers will resist the shift to cloud platforms. “To a CIO who runs a large fiefdom of staff and datacentres, with significant capex and frequent CEO access, the most obvious worry is that cloud is a profound threat, like outsourcing, that raises the possibility of reducing the size of his or her empire and influence,” the report said.
But the consultants said cloud computing could actually give IT managers more control.
“The move to enterprise-wide cloud solutions — whether at the infrastructure end with datacentres or at the user-facing end with, for instance, customer-relationship management applications — may actually leave the IT department in firmer control than before, given the possibility to have much greater centralisation of instalment decisions and functionality than with, for instance, desktop software.”
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