Comment by mosura
9 hours ago
No the value was bypassing IT.
You no longer needed them to approve a new machine, you just spun it up how you want. Sped things up massively for a while.
9 hours ago
No the value was bypassing IT.
You no longer needed them to approve a new machine, you just spun it up how you want. Sped things up massively for a while.
That might have been true for some kind of organization, but definitely not for every kind. On the other side, there were start-ups that wanted the elasticity and no commitments. But both sides at least partially liked the "it's not on me anymore" feature.
It's amazing how there's so many cybersecurity incidents now. Bypassing IT will always backfire spectacularly, IT is the people that stop you from dumbing.
The opposite was/is true. If your cloud box can only be used by two people and IT don’t even know about it then IT can never be persuaded to provide the keys to the rest of the company as they were predisposed to doing.
I saw this stuff too many times, and it is precisely why the cloud exploded in use in about 2010.
What you're telling me is two people potentially have regulated or confidential data not secured by IT, which nobody knows if got leaked.
For many organizations, that's literally illegal, and anyone who does this should be fired.
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