For cloud adoption to grow, so must trust – report

Grazed from FedScoop. Author: Billy Mitchell.

Businesses, governments and other organizations are more trusting of cloud computing than ever before, but still have doubts about providers’ ability to secure sensitive information in the public cloud, according to a new report Thursday. A 77-percent majority of respondents told Intel Security they trust cloud computing more than they did a year ago.

That said, only 13 percent of the participating 1,200 cloud security "decision makers" from around the world said they "completely trust public cloud providers to secure sensitive data," according to the new report, "Blue Skies Ahead? The State of Cloud Adoption," released at Intel Security’s Security through Innovation Summit, produced by FedScoop…

Improving trust in the cloud, primarily through education, is imperative to driving its adoption, Intel Security argues in the report, especially because during the next 16 months, 80 percent of IT budgets are expected to go to cloud computing…

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