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Lessons Learned from Shadow IT

2022/2/13
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Shadow IT and start-ups were the original users of public cloud, over a decade ago. But as public cloud has become a multi-billion dollar business, let’s explore how the role of Shadow IT has evolved. 

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SHOW NOTES:

  • Shadow IT)
  • Why Software is Eating the World) (WSJ, 2011)
  • “Does IT Matter”) (Nicholas Carr, 2014)
  • Bi-Modal IT) (Gartner, 2015)

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DOES SHADOW IT STILL EXIST IF PUBLIC CLOUD IS MAINSTREAM?

Shadow IT began as a way to be more productive in the office (server under the desk, WiFi in a conference room, etc.) and then it went to the cloud (SaaS, the IaaS/PaaS). But how did it evolve and what situations has it created now? 

WHAT DOES THE NEW DISTRIBUTED IT LOOK LIKE NOW?

  • Everybody has the ability to get access to (almost) any technology, via open-source or public cloud, or freemium services.
  • Everybody has the ability to learn something new (YouTube, ACloudGuru, Developer Evangelists, etc.
  • IT organizations have less influence over company-wide architectures and strategies.
  • IT still is often tasked with maintaining applications/security/compliance, even after another group deployed it. 
  • IT leaders are asked to lead digital transformation projects, and typically aren’t staying in the same place for more than 2-3 years. How much of that time is spent coordinating, communicating, re-organizing around DevOps, DevSecOps, FinOps, AIOps, etc..
  • There are hybrid applications, but they aren’t hybrid in the sense of consistently being deployed everywhere to manage vendor lock-in.
  • There are many multi-cloud companies because IT no longer has a boundary. And the economics of cloud means that most applications won’t move once deployed (easier to turn off than to move).
  • There are many, many pains-of-glass.

 

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