Data Security Concerns Impact Cloud Deployments

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Nathan Eddy.

While organizations continue to adopt cloud computing solutions, data security remains an issue, according to survey of enterprises commissioned by Asigra and performed by the customer metrics and research organization, TechValidate.

The survey found 21 percent of respondents cited data security as the biggest concern while the location of where the data was stored came in at 7 percent. Backup related costs, user-related data loss and service provider stability all ranked at 3 percent. Overall, 59 percent said that all of these were concerns with respect to storing data in the cloud…

However, the survey results also indicated that enterprises have endorsed software as a service (SaaS) and the cloud as a viable business application platform, with 55 percent of the organizations surveyed using Salesforce.com today and nearly three-quarters (74 percent) expecting the use of other SaaS and cloud-based applications to increase. According to the report, most organizations rely on a mix of solutions when it comes to data backup and recovery. Two-thirds of respondents have some form of physical device backup solution, while 41 percent use a virtual machine backup solution…

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