Posts by El Dred

What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you

1. Oliver? As in "can I have some more" money Mr customer!

2. "Maybe late but dominate" (excluding phones obvs)

3. The double glazing salesman (Play on Windows) - not above similar tactics.

3. (b) Bill's conservatories and double glazing.

4. Narcosoft - get you hooked and then make you pay. V difficult to go cold turkey on MS.

5. Mañanasoft - the bugs will be fixed tomorrow - honestly.

6. At Least We Are Not As Nasty as Amazon, Facebook and Google (Alwananaafag)

7. Didn't you read the contract?

(Bored in Lock down!)

If you don't GRIP it tightly, lonely enterprise cloud will WANDER

From these stats the number of Shadow Apps is getting pretty scary.

There is a real possibility that IT will have to start locking down the network to prevent use of uncontrolled applications.

When will developers understand that whilst the functionality is important, helping IT to deliver these services in a controlled and secure manner to users will ensure a much broader adoption in the enterprise. Think SSO standards like SAML, think about provisioning.