Top user companies accelerating cloud adoption

The Wild West era of cloud computing is ending. So says cloud computing's new sheriff, a user group called the Open Data Center Alliance .

Bias toward action in this space

"We undoubtedly have a bias toward action in this space," said Andrew Feig, the global head of financial services firm UBS's Innovation Advisory Group, of cloud computing.

The vendors in the group are looking at its requirements for cloud computing, and are "trying to tune their products and their strategies, and their thinking towards this new reality that we're trying to bring of open standards and open interoperability in this cloud space," said Stokes.