A Snapshot of Cloud Storage Adoption

Grazed from The Journal. Author: Margo Pierce.

Businesses use cloud computing differently than educators do, but access, security, cost, and scalability are shared concerns. The report "A Snapshot into Cloud Storage Adoption produced" by TwinStrata, a data storage company, offers the perspective of those using or exploring cloud storage options. The company conducted a survey of more than 200 people that “focuses on the attitudes and experiences of a cloud-friendly sample group as determined by their attendance at one of two cloud-focused conferences.” Here are some highlights of the results.

Eighty percent of current cloud storage users claim that they can recover their data in less than 24 hours, with nearly a quarter believing that they have instantaneous recovery. In comparison, nearly one in six respondents who do not use cloud storage estimated that it would take more than a week to recover their data in the event of a disaster…

While both software as a service and infrastructure as a service have greater degrees of current implementations, cloud storage has the greatest number of planned implementations. Scalability was highlighted as the top value that cloud storage could provide, according to nearly two-thirds of respondents. Meanwhile, 68 percent of current cloud storage users cited offsite data protection for disaster recovery as a key benefit. Only 26 percent of users with no cloud storage plans said the same…

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