Shadow IT and start-ups were the original users of public cloud, over a decade ago. But as public cloud has become a multi-billion dollar business, let’s explore how the role of Shadow IT has evolved.
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DOES SHADOW IT STILL EXIST IF PUBLIC CLOUD IS MAINSTREAM?
Shadow IT began as a way to be more productive in the office (server under the desk, WiFi in a conference room, etc.) and then it went to the cloud (SaaS, the IaaS/PaaS). But how did it evolve and what situations has it created now?
WHAT DOES THE NEW DISTRIBUTED IT LOOK LIKE NOW?
- Everybody has the ability to get access to (almost) any technology, via open-source or public cloud, or freemium services.
- Everybody has the ability to learn something new (YouTube, ACloudGuru, Developer Evangelists, etc.
- IT organizations have less influence over company-wide architectures and strategies.
- IT still is often tasked with maintaining applications/security/compliance, even after another group deployed it.
- IT leaders are asked to lead digital transformation projects, and typically aren’t staying in the same place for more than 2-3 years. How much of that time is spent coordinating, communicating, re-organizing around DevOps, DevSecOps, FinOps, AIOps, etc..
- There are hybrid applications, but they aren’t hybrid in the sense of consistently being deployed everywhere to manage vendor lock-in.
- There are many multi-cloud companies because IT no longer has a boundary. And the economics of cloud means that most applications won’t move once deployed (easier to turn off than to move).
- There are many, many pains-of-glass.
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