Despite security and lock-in fears, public cloud adoption thrives among Fortune 500

Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Matt Asay.

Enterprises are still wary of vendor lock-in and perceived security issues, and it’s throttling their ambitions to run more workloads in the cloud. Or it would, if public cloud weren’t so darn convenient and necessary for driving innovation. This is one strong conclusion that emerges from a new MongoDB survey of over 2,500 people.

Given MongoDB’s new school NoSQL approach to data, it’s not surprising that so many of its enterprise users would be increasingly comfortable running in the cloud. What is more surprising is that these same organizations keep talking about lock-in and security, even as they run ever larger percentages of their applications in the cloud…

I can’t quit you baby

MongoDB appeals to forward-thinking enterprises. As such, it’s not surprising that a MongoDB survey of its customers and users would reveal a huge pick-up of cloud computing. Indeed, a whopping 82% of MongoDB users are either using or evaluating cloud technologies…

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