I was privileged to recently have my byline published in Network World, about why rogue cloud is actually a good thing, not something to be scared of.
Despite obvious dangers, we should view the rogue cloud as a positive thing and use it to IT’s advantage. It’s an opportunity for us to learn what’s really important to the business. People are using the rogue cloud because it solves real problems that IT hasn’t addressed. We should embrace that, and not seek to control or stop it. In the long run, I see rogue projects as a natural evolution in the iterative life cycle of corporate IT.
Read why I think that over at the original – How to use the rogue cloud to innovate the right cloud – Network World.