NTT Europe recently completed a study that found 56 percent of CIOs and senior IT leaders see complexity of their own ICT systems as the biggest barrier to their organisation’s enterprise-wide adoption of the cloud.

While that study was conducted in the UK, anecdotal evidence suggests a similar dilemma in corporate SA. During Brainstorm’s roundtable discussion, Patrick Evans, MD of Advanced Cloud Technologies, suggests that this situation is not unique or unpredictable. “If you look at Moore’s technology adoption lifecycle model, we’re pretty much following that model in terms of adoption of cloud,” he says.