{"id":8768,"date":"2013-09-03T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2776724"},"modified":"2013-09-03T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:26:00","slug":"helping-it-get-its-mojo-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/helping-it-get-its-mojo-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping IT Get Its Mojo Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anytime we in IT encounter a new paradigm, our natural reaction is block, control, stop. In many shops, our first response is to prohibit users from accessing websites that the company has not approved, including cloud-based software, mobile applications, and other \u201cbring your own apps\u201d candidates. Instead, we ought to put more of our attention on words like partner or enable. That\u2019s what IT is really striving for.<br \/>\nIT managers want to serve their company\u2019s needs and to enable employees to do their job better. But the perception of IT is that is has been on a long trajectory towards (let\u2019s face it) irrelevance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2776724\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anytime we in IT encounter a new paradigm, our natural reaction is block, control, stop. In many shops, our first response is to prohibit users from accessing websites that the company has not approved, including cloud-based software, mobile applications, and other &ldquo;bring your own apps&rdquo; candidates. Instead, we ought to put more of our attention on words like partner or enable. That&rsquo;s what IT is really striving for.<br \/>\nIT managers want to serve their company&rsquo;s needs and to enable employees to do their job better. But the perception of IT is that is has been on a long trajectory towards (let&rsquo;s face it) irrelevance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2776724\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}