CIO Magazine released another good cloud adoption article with some quotes from major companies using cloud solutions.
Here's one interesting perspective on how shadow IT is adopting cloud solutions.
>> You may think that you can postpone using cloud services at all until integrating them becomes straightforward. But you can't. Employees can bring SaaS applications—one flavor of cloud computing—into your company pretty easily; all they need is an American Express (AXP) card and the will to circumvent IT, says Don Goin, CIO at auto loan company Santander Consumer USA. The company is a division of the $18.7 billion banking giant Banco Santander (SAN).
>> Last year, some Santander Consumer employees in the marketing department brought in tools from CRM vendor Salesforce.com. Though it wasn't part of Goin's immediate plans, it became established quickly and he let it stand. Then employees started to use the Force.com development platform to build custom business intelligence tools that didn't comply with the company's existing standards. Goin appointed an IT team to bring those projects in line with the rest of the company's BI initiatives.
>> "I am 100 percent responsible and accountable for all technology and every shred of data that moves in and out of my company," he says. Goin doesn't want IT to be seen as "the say-no people," he says, but end users may not foresee the difficulties of meshing new products with existing technology. "On-premise, we have technology standards. Nothing like that exists in the cloud," he explains. "If business users adopt these things, we CIOs are challenged in IT to figure out how to integrate [them] with the rest of our world."