Cloud

I can see clearly now

As cloud providers keep delivering services directly to the user, is the IT department becoming irrelevant?

21 February 2017

Johan Marais, the virtualisation manager at Discovery Holdings, tells how, a couple of years ago, a business unit within the company had 'started doing their own thing on the side'.

He said the unit needed some servers, which they provisioned from Amazon Web Services, 'and they didn’t speak to us (the IT department)'.

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