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Who's Dictating Cloud App's in the Enterprise? by @berkson0
My name is Alan Berkson and I'm a cloud-aholic. I Dropboxed my SkyDrive and CRM'ed my Evernote into my Google Apps mailbox. I'm a victim of cloud sprawl. Are you with me on this one? I am experiencing cloud application overload. But they're so cool. The lure of the next latest and greatest is irresistible. And there's always a new one to test. Isn't that what being a geek is all about -- playing with new toys? They do it on purpose. They throw some cool, useful features at you and at some point you can't live without them anymore. The freemium model to the nth degree. As an individual, this is a challenge. For business, it's an information technology nightmare. I recently wrote about how the iPhone -- and Siri in particular -- has created challenges for enterprise IT departments. The challenge lies around the ease with which these applications are adopted by individual users and casually applied for business use. There is a great deal of utility and value in apps, but there's