Cisco on Wednesday unveiled Cloud Consumption as a Service, an offering designed to help enterprises discover and continually monitor public cloud use — aka “shadow IT” — across their systems. Shadow IT systems in an enterprise or organization expose it to security risks and hidden costs, and may give rise to compliance issues. Organizations are using up to 20 times more cloud services than IT is aware of, according to Cisco, and the problem exists in companies of all sizes and in all industries.
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Cisco Aims to Pin Down Shadow IT
Posted by: Richard Adhikari January 15, 2016 05:00 AMCisco on Wednesday unveiled Cloud Consumption as a Service, an offering designed to help enterprises discover and continually monitor public cloud use — aka “shadow IT” — across their systems. Shadow IT systems in an enterprise or organization expose it to security risks and hidden costs, and may give rise to compliance issues. Organizations are using up to 20 times more cloud services than IT is aware of, according to Cisco, and the problem exists in companies of all sizes and in all industries.