Businesses still wary of cloud says survey
- 05 November, 2010 01:07
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British businesses are deeply sceptical about the need to adopt cloud computing technology even though nearly seven in 10 companies thought that it was going to be an important technology strand in the future.
According to a new survey from the Cloud Industry Forum, one third of businesses thought that a lack of confidence in cloud technology was actually a barrier to adoption. Furthermore, a large proportion of the respondents thought that the hype surrounding cloud computing was in itself an additional handicap that slowed down its adoption.
However, the importance of the technology was still widely recognised - 69 per cent of those surveyed thought that cloud was going to become increasingly important in the coming years.
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In common with most of these surveys, the biggest barrier to adoption was security, with 34 per cent of companies citing it as their main concern. On the other hand, 35 per cent of companies looking to cloud plumped for cost savings and reduced complexity as their main reasons for going down the cloud path.
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Andy Burton, Chairman of the Cloud Industry Forum and Chief Executive of Fasthosts, stated: "These findings clearly highlight that the hype over the cloud has yet to die down. As a result many businesses remain somewhat sceptical over the promises that some vendors and suppliers are making. This lack of confidence is clear and yet when asked what would make any selection process easier the overwhelming majority would favour a Code of Practice to help make an informed choice. The advantages of cloud services over on-premise are often well understood, but making a clear choice of service provider is less clear.
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Walter Adamson
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I know the hesitation is not about facts, but emotion, but just to point out what Aderdeen recently published: Security in the Cloud: More Secure! Compliant! Less Expensive!
"Drawing on the findings from multiple benchmark studies on best practices in content security and security software as a service, Aberdeen’s analysis shows that users of cloud-based web security had substantially better results than users of on-premise web security implementations in the critical areas of security, compliance, reliability and cost.
Compared to companies using on premise web security solutions, users of cloud-based web security solutions had 58% fewer malware incidents over the last 12 months, 93% fewer audit deficiencies, 45% less security-related downtime, and 45% fewer incidents of data loss or data exposure."