Tag: Shadow IT

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IT is in a state of change on a consistent basis, but never more so than now. With the increasing importance of the digital customer experience across all industries, technology is at ...

Companies today must think of their employees as customers and employ technology, including mobile apps, that employees want to use. I have always been a bit of a technophile. Many years ago, ...

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 ...

In many organizations, IT resources are pushed to the breaking point while users increasingly demand new technologies, features and capabilities. Users who know a thing or two—often just enough to be dangerous—sometimes ...

“We’re all developers now. Citizen developer activities will accelerate.” That’s what Gartner predicted back in 2012. Fast forward more than four years and we’ve seen the DevOps movement explode, while the rise ...

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 ...

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 ...