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By Linda Sharp
The IT “cloud” is not unlike the ones we see over the sky each day, changing from one second to the next. What once appeared to be a young child running may turn into a woman with hair billowing in the wind, just as one cloud offering can evolve in features and scale.
The cloud as we have come to know it is not drifting away; it seems here to stay. But not all clouds have a silver lining. Organizations, particularly large ones, are still struggling to determine how the cloud will fit into a true long-term information governance strategy. And, much like the ones that we see in the sky, they come in many shapes and sizes.
This is increasingly true as the cloud is adopted for end-user business applications that traditionally were on-premise. Perhaps the most compelling enterprise example of this is Microsoft Office 365.