Tag: Shadow IT
DevOps Chats: Shadow Code Security with PerimeterX
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 ...
Taming the Shadow IT Beast and Runaway Spend
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 ...
Three Insights from the World’s Leading IT Organizations
Deepak Jannu | | digital business, digital leaders, digital leadership, IT leaders, IT organizations, Shadow IT, technology leadersIT 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 ...
Modern Workers Demand Modern Technology
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, ...
Has DevOps Caused the Re-emergence of Shadow IT?
Aditya Vadaganadam | | CIO and devops, compliance, Devops and Security, Enterprise Adoption, Shadow ITShadow 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 ...
Citizen Developers Can Benefit an Organization
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 ...
Should Citizen Developers be Welcome in DevOps?
“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 ...
DevOps Brings IT Out of the Shadows
Tony Bradley | | agile, citizen developers, continuous development, devops, devops culture, Shadow ITOne 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 ...
The Growth in Data Center Uses for Shadow IT
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 ...
Stop whining about shadow IT and do something about it
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 ...
Beyond the Darkness of Shadow IT
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 ...
To Be or Not to Be – Shadow IT
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 ...