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back to article If you don't GRIP it tightly, lonely enterprise cloud will WANDER

At the colo shows of DCW and CEE at the Excel Centre in London last week, it was evident that the body of the data centre is trying to keep fit with efficiency improvements, yet the mind of the cloud is given to wander. It has become quite a problem as users take the initiative and resort to shadow IT solutions as company cloud …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Not just compliance

    If offered a bright orange pill I'm guessing a fair number of people would ask some questions before swallowing it (if at all).

    With cloud you are "such a square" if you don't just wolf it down with some vodka.

    Cloud will make your worries go away!

    Sod compliance, most cloud services installed by well intentioned users don't get past the first

    "I better check this is the official client from the real domain".

    I understand the attraction, once the balance is found where "net down" equates to "still able to work" IT might take a better view but we are in the mad rush mode where if it's new it's good right! Services need an off-line use and data backup, rating. If it does not work net down and the data is not yours for the easy constant backup then move on.

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  2. El Dred

    From these stats the number of Shadow Apps is getting pretty scary.

    There is a real possibility that IT will have to start locking down the network to prevent use of uncontrolled applications.

    When will developers understand that whilst the functionality is important, helping IT to deliver these services in a controlled and secure manner to users will ensure a much broader adoption in the enterprise. Think SSO standards like SAML, think about provisioning.

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    1. Peter2 Silver badge
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      What, you mean you don't lock down your network to prevent use of unauthorised applications?

      My (Watchguard) Firewall comes with application access control, ticking the boxes for it is not exactly a major task and Software Restriction Polices can be used by anybody who can find the group policy management console free of charge.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Panacea

    Unfortunately this is one buzzword/phrase that just will not go away - it is not a panacea - especially not for big businesses and those handling anything but unregulated data.

    If youre a big business and want genuine capacity on demand, flexibility and agilitydesign it into your infrastructure up front and make sure youve got a funding model that can deliver it.

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  4. Will Godfrey Silver badge
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    The scary bit is that I think these people might actually believe the crap they're coming out with.

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    1. John Sanders
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      You said it right

      More cloud bollocks.

      It's the raise of stupidity.

      Users are too stupid to use the company's FTP/SFTP server but know how to use dropbox.

      Users are too stupid to know how to copy and paste files on a windows share, but are clever enough to share company documents on Google Docs.

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  5. Fenton

    Training

    In the past users got their training from work and did things the IT way.

    Now training budgets are slashed, but users now have more computer access outside of work than they ever did have using mobile so they are now self trained and want to do things the google/apple/ way which is designed to be easy & hides the complexity.

    Give a user a Mozilla client now days and all they see is a jumble of sub directories and they get turned off.

    Easy for us IT guys to understand, but not the general user population.

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  6. Adam Reid

    Terminology

    Strange mix-up in terminology here:

    Private Cloud (off-premises storage and compute) VS Private Cloud (applications that are hosted off-premises and delivered via the web, i.e. pretty much anything).

    CenturyLink seems to be selling a VMware-based private cloud - compute and storage hosted somewhere that allows the customer to run VM workloads.

    The article talks about businesses purchasing 'shadow apps'.

    “We were starting to see that over 71 per cent of business users were now just using shadow IT and going to these clouds already – using things like DropBox and Salesforce… lighting up an entire environment for all their sales and marketing campaigns without IT even knowing.”

    This isn't private cloud, it is just purchasing an application that is hosted off-premises and delivered via the web. How does a better private cloud fix this problem?

    So if your problem is that users need to share large files, you need an application that allows you to share large files, like DropBox. Purchasing compute and storage from CenturyLink doesn't solve this problem, all you've got is the ability to run VMs.

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