Organizations are adopting cloud technologies at an exponential rate, however with insufficient planning and the lack of clear a digital strategy, cloud adoption can quickly become a severe business headache. Back in the days of paper, filing systems were clear, businesses had dedicated people and processes to manage the effective filing and access of documents. Being material, when the filing room was full this was visually obvious, and processes were in place to discard items no longer relevant to make room for fresh information to be filed away and sourced as required.
Cloud has turned this system on its head. Employees view the cloud as ‘limitless’ storage, and they fail to understand that new capacity means increasing costs. The cloud’s pay-as-you-go model means that as IT departments increase capacity, with the potential for endless additional storage comes the potential for endless cloud fee increases. This is financially unsustainable, inefficient, and results in more complex processes for accessing information with a by-product of reduced security.
