Cloud Computing Users Are Losing Data, Symantec Finds
January 17, 2013
Grazed from Investors Business Daily. Author: Donna Howell.
Cloud computing is a ticket to losing data for two in five companies, a new study finds. "It’s really kind of astounding," said Dave Elliott, a cloud marketing manager at storage and security company Symantec (SYMC). The company polled more than 3,200 organizations to gauge hidden costs of the cloud and ways to mitigate problems.
"Forty-three percent of respondents have lost data in the cloud and have had to recover from backups," Elliott said. And the recovery process has failed at least once for most. Internet cloud and cloud computing these days means most any services obtained over the Internet or obtained from potentially remote data centers, instead of the old-fashioned kind of on-premises computing where you knew exactly what machine your data were on…
The issues Symantec’s cloud study pinpointed are arising as more companies gravitate to using the cloud for cost savings and arguably easier computing. The survey results suggest that more than 90% of companies and other organizations are at least discussing cloud computing, vs. 75% a year ago…
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