Addressing cloud adoption issues

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Moderator: Amit Roy Choudhury, technology editor, The Business Times

IN terms of mindshare, cloud computing has become mainstream and on the agenda of almost every CIO (chief information officer). However, the picture is different in actual use case scenarios. A Gartner survey shows that last year, just 38 per cent of all organisations used cloud services. Since standardised cloud business models have not yet been set across industries, many organisations are concerned about things such as security and reliability of the cloud for mission-critical applications. To understand the challenges, as well as opportunities, BizIT brought together a group of experts to discuss the issue at a roundtable. Excerpts from the discussion: