In many IT organizations the notion of improvement is often tied to a capital project. High-performing organizations create consistent learning and challenge at the edge, with no additional budget or staff. The ...

Shadow IT is far more pervasive than most CIOs think. Cisco Systems estimates that a typical firm has 15 to 22 times more cloud applications than authorized by the IT department. While ...

Do you know how much IT resources your employees are consuming? According to research conducted by the Everest Group, shadow IT spending accounts for a whopping 50% or more of the IT ...

Shadow IT is back, and this time, it's in the DevOps toolstack "One of our clients conducted an audit and found more than 10,000 Jenkins instances across their IT landscape!" This remark ...

Shadow IT is casting a long shadow over IT departments as more organizations react to changing demands from their customers, partners and regulators. Groups and individuals outside of IT are taking matters ...

Much has been written about shadow IT at the business unit and employee level where the proliferation of cloud applications has all but eliminated IT’s control over what applications are used in ...

The concept of consumerization of IT, Bring Your Own Everything (BYOx) and self-service technologies has amplified the amount of ‘Shadow IT’ in development shops. Developers can procure, setup, and start using new ...

Is it being an innovator, or demonizing business decisions to use other vehicles, and cry foul? Sun Tzu, the famous Chinese strategist and philosopher, once said, “If ignorant both of your enemy ...

As the economy struggles to recover after the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all learned a thing or two about supply chains—and what happens when they break down ...

When the cloud first caught on, there was a problem with Shadow IT—developers spinning up instances in AWS without the IT team knowing they existed. Now with the ease of CI/DC automated ...

One of the biggest threats to organizations today is shadow IT—unsanctioned and unknown technologies and applications being employed by maverick users. Shadow IT represents a security risk for your company—the IT department ...

If you were like me, you thought that cloud and compute virtualization technologies were transforming the data center, but they are nothing compared to what is coming our way. The IT landscape ...