Square made a splash in the industry by providing small credit card readers to smaller businesses, giving them the capability to accept credit cards using smartphones and tablets.

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The difficulty, of course, is that the very nature of public cloud services means there are few barriers to stop employees from simply using a credit card to self-provision a useful new capability.

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