Cloud Computing and the End Run around IT – Here We Go Again - The Virtualization Practice

Cloud Computing and the End Run around IT – Here We Go Again The Virtualization Practice

I think the early uses of Cloud Computing by enterprises (or any company with a significant IT department) will be again by users, departments, and business constituents who have some of their own reasonable level of technical expertise and who will find that they can bring up “tactical” or prototype business applications on external clouds much more easily than they can in the internal labs (even the ones based upon virtualization) offered by their internal IT departments. Cloud Computing offers these business constituents the opportunity to experiment with technology solutions that might fit various business cases and scenarios without having ask, explain, fill out forms, and wait for a response from IT. External Cloud vendors are structuring their entire businesses around being easy to work with on a technical and business level. Therefore, I think that Cloud Computing will be the basis of the next big end run around IT and IT’s structure and processes.