Where is the enterprise at in terms of cloud adoption at the end of 2015?
December 28, 2015
Grazed from ITProportal. Author: Jeff Denwerth.
In general, cloud penetration across the enterprise in terms of workloads being completed continues to be at a relatively low level, with many analysts firms reporting that penetration is at rates of less than 10 per cent. That said, the journey has begun in most organisations and Ovum has identified that nearly 75 per cent of organisations will adopt some hybrid cloud strategy by 2016. We’re seeing a mixture of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS being consumed by organisations which are clearly determined to utilise next generation cloud technologies to make themselves not only more agile, but also more focused on their own businesses and less on the business of IT.
How will the elimination of US Safe Harbour impact this momentum going forward?
Safe Harbour protections of PII data are, in essence, to be lifted by 1 January 2016. With little time remaining to react, the overwhelming number of US-based SaaS providers are ill prepared to offer a sovereign European SaaS solution within the time available. What’s more, there are also cases such as the US government vs. Microsoft looming in which the central issue of data privacy is evolving from data location to data stewardship…
Organisations in general are more questioning not only about where their data is stored, but also the nationality of the company that is offering the data management service…
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