These days all it takes to enter the cloud is the swipe of a credit card – Visa, MasterCard, or corporate AMEX will do. This has led many enterprises and line of business owners to turn to the cloud for their business applications, computing, and storage needs. However, in the rush to take advantage of these easy to procure and deploy solutions, a hidden threat is beginning to emerge. This challenge is the proliferation of cloud silos across the enterprise. According to David Linthicum of InfoWorld, if companies are not careful “in many instances clouds will just become a set of new silos, diminishing the value of IT if we’re not careful… the end result is an enterprise IT that becomes more complex and difficult to change, now on the new cloud computing target platform.”
However, the silo trend is not a new one. We have seen it before in the 1980’s and 1990’s as large enterprises in an effort to spur growth and reduce costs purchased a large number of on-premise solutions to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations.
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