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Cloud Computing: Cloud Governance Out of Control
There’s another survey out on cloud computing, this time by Avenade, a technology services company. The results duplicate the results of a number of other similar surveys that have recently been made, but one result is worth looking into. The report exposes Cloud Computing as a potential nightmare in terms of governance.
20 percent of IT executives say that the use of Cloud services in their companies are getting out of control. Because internal computing resources are bypassed when cloud applications are used, many projects now routinely bypass IT altogether. That may be making things more convenient for those groups deploying their applications internally, but it means that often no one person or group within the company has a map for which services are being used and where corporate data resides. Governance has gone on vacation.
Another 60 percent of IT executives aren’t at the point where things are out of control, but they are worried that ‘cloud sprawl’ will happen.
Interestingly, while 20 percent of executives think things are out of control, there are roughly 20 percent of IT’s counterparts in non-IT groups who think that Cloud services are great because they don’t need to involve IT. These non-IT managers said that they prefer to set up their cloud services themselves because going through their IT just takes too long and it is easier to provision and manage cloud applications themselves.
60 percent of companies have a policy that all decisions for cloud computing need to be routed through IT. But there is not much to deter non-IT managers to ignore the policy. 29 percent said that if they violate the policy no one says anything and another 48 percent said the worst thing that can happen is that they can receive a warning.
The report also found that 74 percent of companies now use at least one cloud service, up by 25 percent from 2009.
