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Clear skies ahead for cloud computing despite security concerns
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By EgovAsia Editors | Feb 9, 2010
While security and integration issues are clearly users’ biggest fears about cloud computing, these concerns have not dissuaded companies from implementing cloud-based applications within their corporate infrastructure. This is according to Mimecast's recent Cloud Computing Adoption survey, hich examined the perception and adoption of cloud computing solutions among 565 respondents responsible for managing their organization’s IT operations and budget across the U.S. and Canada in the Fall of 2009.
The well-known fears with cloud computing appear to be at odds with reality, as the survey findings suggest strong satisfaction with cloud computing once it is installed. 70% of IT decision makers already using cloud computing are planning to move additional solutions to the cloud—most within the next 12 months—indicating that those respondents have come to quickly recognize the inherent ease of implementation, robust security features and cost-savings of cloud computing.
Of the survey respondents, 62% have considered or are considering cloud computing, but companies remain hesitant because of perceived security issues. The findings show that security concerns were the leading reason given by respondents in all categories for not moving forward with cloud-based applications. 46% of respondents that had considered cloud-based applications chose security as the main reason for not moving forward. This was also true across a majority of industries, including financial services (76%), energy (75%), government (67%), retail (61%) and technology (40%).
The investments made in current IT infrastructure and worries about integration also prevented companies from taking the next step toward cloud computing. 32% of respondents that had considered cloud-based applications named existing infrastructure investments as the reason for not moving to the cloud; while 26% said that legacy/integration worries had stopped them from going any further.
