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The Definitive Guide to Enterprise Cloud Governance: A Frictionless Approach © 2015 RightScale, Inc. All rights reserved. RightScale is a registered trademark of RightScale, Inc. All other products and services may be trademarks of their respective owners. 2 A Need for Speed: The Current State of Cloud Governance With the rise of public cloud, developers and application teams embraced the opportunity to access infrastructure resources in minutes instead of the weeks-long to months-long wait at most large enterprises. However, traditional IT governance was bypassed in this rush to greater agility. In fact, cloud use often starts with no governance at all as business units directly procure cloud resources to satisfy urgent business requirements. Although the shorter provisioning times for public cloud brings clear benefits for the organization, the lack of visibility and governance over these resources can come back to haunt IT teams. We’ve all heard the horror stories — teams leaving cloud servers running resulting in unexpected eye-popping cloud bills, no backups in place, unknown security vulnerabilities, a lack of audit trails, and the list goes on. Most enterprise IT teams have been through the experience of being on the front line when something goes wrong. The time has now arrived for IT teams to take a proactive role by brokering cloud services on behalf of their organizations. These initiatives need to deliver on instant access to both public and private cloud infrastructure. While governance needs to be an integral part of the cloud broker role, IT cannot afford to revert to outdated processes that create significant delays and hamstring business agility. A New Approach: Frictionless Cloud Governance In a world where public clouds are easily and instantly accessible, enterprise IT teams need to embrace a new approach: frictionless governance that embeds and automates necessary controls. With frictionless governance, you can drive delays to zero by offering developers and business units cloud resources as quickly as teams can obtain them directly from cloud providers. In fact, frictionless governance combined with automation can make it even easier and faster for enterprise users to get fully configured stacks or applications in public or private clouds. This is an achievable goal that can enable IT teams to accelerate agility beyond that offered by going directly to public clouds.