Forty four per cent of FS businesses admit to bypassing the IT department when purchasing public cloud. A new study, launched by EMC, VCE and VMware of 600 line of businesses (LOB) across the UK, found: 92 per cent of FS LOBs say they use some form of public cloud, whether validated by IT or affordability (41 per cent), ease of use (34 per cent), and wanting to meet client needs (30 per cent).

“The research highlights why the scale of public cloud adoption, without consultation with the IT department, should cause concern for the industry,” comments Nigel Moulton, chief technology officer, EMEA at VCE. “As employees look to deploy cloud services that circumnavigate the IT department, IT organisations need to have a strategy that gives easier access to cloud services in a controlled, compliant manner.”

In order to meet these customer needs in an increasingly competitive and disruptive market, the study highlights the pressure IT is under to deliver value to the business, at pace. IT departments need to embrace a hybrid cloud strategy that can provide portability of workloads in a flexible, agile fashion, it argues.

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