How Cloud Governance Can Provide Cost Saving Benefits? Cloud Governance means many things to many people. Heck, just the word cloud means different things depending on who you are talking to. While definitions can vary, controlling access to cloud resources is invariably a central piece of any governance program.
Enterprise cloud computing has transformed IT. Cloud computing decreases time-to-market, improves agility by allowing businesses to adapt quickly to changing market demands, and, ultimately, drives down costs. The ease of deploying and scaling cloud services, along with their low cost of acquisition, has resulted in increasingly decentralized IT, or what is referred to as “shadow IT.� This helps organizations become more agile, but it also increases security threats due to absence of governance, uniform information security, and adherence to regulatory compliance requirements. Central IT has since reasserted itself in its domain, acting as a cloud broker to the enterprise. Moreover, citing security and budget issues, most organizations