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How IT can learn to stop worrying and love the cloud

The business advantages of PaaS are clear -- but not all developers agree

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According to Sacha, as developers work in the cloud, grow their expertise, and get what they need, they'll be its staunchest defenders. Eventually, core IT itself will start defending the use of PaaS.

In the near term, a lot of PaaS will be adopted through the usual channels, such as sneaking in via shadow IT projects. Only the best-run companies will come to terms with shadow IT and formalize it as fast IT and control it with core IT. As for the rest, well, as a consultant, I make a lot of money on server stack buildouts.

This article, "How IT can learn to stop worrying and love the cloud," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Keep up on the latest developments in application development and read more of Andrew Oliver's Strategic Developer blog at InfoWorld.com. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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