Security now key driving force in cloud adoption

January 6, 2016 Off By David

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Barclay Ballard.

Security is now a key driving force for cloud adoption according to the latest survey by Rackspace, marking a significant turnaround for the technology. The study, titled “The Anatomy of a Cloud Migration,” polled 500 IT and business decision makers in the UK who have either been through or are planning a cloud migration project and found that security was one of the top three motivations for moving to the cloud.

38 per cent of respondents cited security as a reason for migrating, beaten only by reducing IT costs (61 per cent) and disaster recovery capabilities (50 per cent). 58 per cent of organisations also said that they migrated business-critical data to the cloud first, indicating that cloud security fears are abating…

Previously, the cloud has been viewed as a risky proposition when compared with on-premise solutions, due to the possibility of network infiltration and cyberattacks…

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