by Angela Guess
In a recent interview Darren Cunningham, Vice President of Cloud Marketing at Informatica answered the question, how are companies adopting cloud technology? He responded, “Well, it’s been a very interesting few years to watch the evolution of cloud adoption in organizations of all sizes. From an IT perspective, initially many organizations were ‘cloud skeptical.’ There were a lot of people suggesting that the cloud wasn’t right for their organization. At the same time, there was some early adoption – the pioneers. In many cases, it was ‘outside in’ in the enterprise. Divisions and departments were enamored with software-as-a-service [SaaS] applications, and often they were implementing them without IT in the picture at all.”
He continued, “Then adoption moved from cloud skeptical to cloud curious from an IT perspective. A lot of these applications came in through the back door, and an ‘us vs. them’ dynamic developed in many organizations. Politics heated up all around the cloud. Fast forward to 2012, and it’s amazing to see the tipping point we have reached. It has become cloud first. Now, in many – if not most – IT organizations, you have to justify why an application, platform, or infrastructure investment isn’t cloud based. It’s been an interesting transition over the last few years, and I think it has accelerated faster than anyone would have guessed.”
