Cloud computing can offer plenty of benefits on businesses. But why the slower than expected adoption, especially on bigger businesses? The answer is probably lies in office politics: It seems that IT people are afraid that the cloud will threat their comfort zone and status quo.

I have just stumbled on an interesting cloud computing infographic – or infotoon, to be more appropriate – created by Dave Blazek for www.ca.com/cloudviews. The infotoon is pretty descriptive: IT team seems to deliberately slow down cloud adoption for one reason or another – one thing for sure: Although very important in business growth, it seems that innovation is not for everybody.

Some people believe that new roles should be established in order to manage the company’s cloud; moreover, some also believe that they need to learn more as the cloud will require a new set of IT skills. Not stopping there, the end user seems don’t get proper information regarding the cloud – how they can use the cloud in their company and which services are actually available for them.

The critical success factor for a company going to the cloud is how staffs – both IT and non-IT – are more than willing to embrace the cloud, viewing it as a change agent in growing their company and career, instead of as a threat to how things normally go in the past few decades.

Via Mashable