The cloud is still considered a young, relatively new technology and while there is a lot of optimism towards it there is also some hesitation. That hesitation starts at the top according to one study by the KPMG Sourcing Advisory. They conducted a test in which cloud service providers and advisors tested their enterprise outsourcing customers, asking each to rate the executives’ capability from 1 to 5. A 1 on the spectrum represented “very unskilled” and 5 stood for “very skilled.” According to a PC World report on the study, enterprise IT executives were ranked lowest in the study, with service providers giving an average score of 2.19 and advisors grading execs 1.69.

 A lot of companies have made the cloud their top priority but from what I’m hearing many of these cloud adoption programs are slowly getting off the ground and lack direction. The cloud is still a largely unknown entity. That’s not to say executives don’t know what cloud computing is or the benefits it can provide. I’m not saying these are dumb individuals by any stretch of the imagination. However, people fear the unknown, to be blunt, and because this technology is somewhat in its infancy stages there is a lot we don’t know. Simply put, if IT execs are going to make large future investments in the cloud, like they are saying, they’ll need to be a little more educated on the issue. They need more real world experience and practice in cloud computing. Practice makes perfect, right? Once there is a better understanding, I think obviously you’ll see cloud adoption rise and plans move forward at a more rapid pace because execs know just how they want to utilize the technology.