But let’s look at the practicalities here – oftentimes the content being shared isn’t exactly ground breaking – while I’m sure there are cases where the recipe for ana amazing new miracle drug has been shared outside of the organization and gazillions of dollars in pharma revenue might have been risked (or not), the majority of example that I’ve seen are much more mundane than this – maybe a marketing plan here, a draft report there or (heaven forbid) a guest list to the department’s client Christmas party. Now clearly this might breach an IT policy here or there and potentially (but only potentially) may introduce a vector for data loss. For whatever reason (inflexible legacy systems, stubborn IT departments, need to be agile) they’ve decided that for a particular project, they want to introduce Dropbox into their workflow to quickly and easily share some content. But I wonder if it’s not worth taking a step back and looking at this from a pragmatic perspective.įirst, why do people go around IT to use Dropbox? In the majority of cases these are good, solid, hardworking employees that don’t want to introduce risk to their organization but that do want to get stuff done. Clearly companies providing a more ‘enterprise grade†service do well out of panicking all those overworked CIO types about rogue IT within their organization. Now it has to be mentioned that this survey was sponsored by Nasuni, an enterprise storage vendor that has a vested interest in stirring the pot about shadow IT.
C-level and other execs are the people who brought their personal iPads and iPhones into the office in the first place and demanded they be supported. The most blatant offenders are near the top of the corporate heap — VPs and directors are most likely to use Dropbox despite the documented risks and despite corporate edicts. One out of five of 1,300 business users surveyed said they use the consumer file-sync-and-share system with work documents… And, half of those Dropbox users do this even though they know it’s against the rules. Bear with me on this one though… Over on GigaOm Barb Darrow has a good write up about the findings of a survey commissioned by Nasuni into the use of Dropbox within large enterprises. It’s summertime down in my neck of the woods and that’s a good time to go out on a limb with a statement that might get people a little fired up.
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