This document discusses the future of cloud computing and how it is becoming more open. It notes that technology adoption is now bottom-up, with developers choosing tools like Shadow IT rather than IT decision makers. These Shadow IT tools are often more open than traditional options, using open source platforms and multiple runtimes. The future of cloud platforms is moving towards being more open as well, from closed and single-runtime in the past to open and supporting multiple runtimes now. The document advises that to manage Shadow IT, companies should make official open platforms available that are easy to use, rather than trying to stop its adoption, and then monitor usage of those platforms.

1. The Future of the Cloud is
Open
November 2011
10.20.2005

2. What do these have
in common?
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3. 3

4. Any guesses?
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5. 5

6. I’ll take “Things being used
by my employees,” Alex
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7. Technology adoption today is bottom up
CIO
DEVELOPERS
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8. What IT Decision Makers Think is Being Used
CIO
What Developers Want to Use
What is Actually Being Used
DEVELOPERS
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9. It’s the end of
procurement as we’ve
known it
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10. …and I feel fine
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11. Why?
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12. Because Shadow IT
are the Good Guys
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13. But also because their
tools are open
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14. Which is more open?
IAAS
PAAS
OR
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15. PAAS Generations
GEN 1
GEN 2
GEN 3
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16. The Future is Open
GEN 1
GEN 2
GEN 3
Closed
Open
Multiple
Runtimes
Runtimes
Open
Runtimes
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17. Open is great,
but what do I do?
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18. Step 1: Learn from King Cnut
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19. Cnut set his throne by the sea
shore and commanded the tide
to halt and not wet his feet and
robes. Yet "continuing to rise as
usual [the tide] dashed over his
feet and legs without respect to
his royal person.”
Source: Wikipedia
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20. Step 2: Learn Jujitsu
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21. "Jutsu" can be translated to
mean "art" or "technique" and
represents manipulating the
opponent's force against himself
rather than confronting it with
one's own force.
Source: Wikipedia
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22. Why does Shadow IT embrace
the cloud?
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23. Because it’s available and
because it works
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24. To jujitsu Shadow IT, make
available a platform that is
available and just works
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25. Then monitor and manage that
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26. QUESTIONS
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