Key Technologies Driving the Stampede to the Cloud Mark Bagley, VP, Innovation Scouting, BT Mark Bagley, VP, Innovation Scouting, BT The stampede to cloud is the number one trend in today’s IT landscape. Why finance, buy, install, operate, maintain and protect your own IT infrastructure when you can rent everything? Security concerns about the cloud are passé. If it’s good enough for the banks and the US government, it’s good enough for the rest of us. When you add in the knowledge that a lot of companies never wanted to run so much technology anyway, it’s clear that the shift to cloud is unstoppable.