Security Concerns Drive Companies Back to Private Cloud
March 2, 2015
Grazed from Whir. Author: Cheryl Kemp.
Nearly all organizations would use hybrid cloud if the public Internet structure could be made more secure, yet most of them (57 percent) are migrating back to private clouds due to security and data protection concerns. According to 1,000 interviews with senior IT decision-makers conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Tata Communications, cloud computing has been widely adopted yet concerns over security remain an obstacle to wider use.
Although most of organizations have some type of cloud, not all the data is stored there. Even though most companies would move to the cloud tomorrow if it were possible, only 28 percent of data is stored in the cloud and only 42 percent of infrastructure is virtualized. One of the barriers to more widespread cloud adoption and use is application readiness…
Many companies use programs that are designed to work with legacy infrastructure or haven’t been updated in a long time. Only 39 percent of applications were ready to move to the cloud…
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