Don’t Lose Money in the Clouds
January 28, 2013
Grazed from Fox Business. Author: Donna Fuscaldo.
Small businesses are adopting cloud computing to save money, but it could end up costing them. According to a recent survey by Symantec, enterprises and small businesses are embracing cloud computing at a fast clip, but at the same time are experiencing escalated costs due to things like rogue cloud use, complex backup and recovery and inefficient cloud storage.
“Because it’s so easy to setup … there’s rouge deployments of cloud services,” says Tom Powledge, Symantec’s vice president of product delivery for SMB and Symantec .cloud. "Employees inside companies are using various cloud services on their own without checking in with IT administrators.”…
The Symantec survey found that rouge cloud deployments are a common problem, with more than three quarters of survey respondents reporting one within the last year. Large companies are more at risk than small businesses, but it is happening in all types of companies. What’s more, of the companies that reported rouge cloud issues, 40% experienced exposure of confidential information while more than one quarter saw accounts get compromised, websites defaced or goods and services stolen…
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