The Dream of a Common Cloud

Are we past the hype about cloud computing and into the stage of “it’s here; what are we going to do with it?” It would seem so. Most every investment bank is employing, or in the process of creating, some sort of cloud strategy, though some are clearly more sophisticated than others.

But as with any new technology, a key obstacle to complete adoption is a lack of standardization, especially when it comes to taxonomy. It has been this drive toward uniformity that has spurred investment banks to