The cloud is certainly impacting IT’s role in business, as departments grapple with the influx of cloud applications in the enterprise. In a recent post in CIO, Bernard Golden does a nice job articulating how the cloud is changing IT’s role in the enterprise — and how the cloud presents a tremendous opportunity for IT to remake itself into the department every employee will love. In the article, Golden describes the misconceptions of those who view the cloud and IT as mutually exclusive. He writes: “In personal interactions, I often hear this sentiment portrayed as, ‘Public cloud computing is fine for the SMB and startup market, but enterprises aren’t ready to move to that model.’ The tone of much of this feedback is that anyone who advocates cloud computing is at best naïve or at worse incapable of understanding the real details of IT.” From ‘project manager’ to ‘service.