cloud computing risks
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Cloud computing
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Who uses cloud computing?
22% Professional
Services and
21% Education and Public Sector
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Cloud adoption
60% business think it could be
their most significant IT
operating method in 2014 but Security is still an issue
(63%)
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Security and Risk
➢The top five cloud applications deployed company-wide are website hosting (24%), emailhosting (23%), database hosting (22%), servers (22%) and storage (20%)➢Security is deemed an ongoing issue that goes beyond cloud (74%) but is certainly a priority➢in evaluating and managing IT delivered via cloud (80%)➢43% say it will not prevent them adopting more cloud services
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Cloud supply➢As in 2010 the key requirement of a cloud supplier is that they provide data security and privacy (73%) – having strong business continuity and disaster recovery processes has grown in importance (70%), whilst providing performance SLAs (67%) remains the third biggest consideration➢Most prefer to use a mix of cloud suppliers (71%) rather than relying on a single service provider (25%) Methodology overview
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Conclusions
✔Security factors prevail ✔Risk evaluation of cloud ✔Data privacy and contract issues ✔Quality assurance and transition management ✔Infrastructure and service provider business
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Key enablers of the process
➢ease of transition (58%), ➢quality assurance (55%)➢while regulations on thesecurity and control of customer data (54%)
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Infrastructure as a Service
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Security sticking points
Security is a partiuclar issue for companies in
UK and Germany
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Attitudes
74% of CIOs think IT security is a concern whether IT systemsand applications are delivered via the cloud or not. Against this backdrop, the fact that 80% see security issues as a priority when evaluating and managing IT via cloud services may in part be simplydue diligence in coming to terms with a new approach
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Cloud and Risk
For many companies, risk is synonymous with security: compromises in security (45%) and brand damage as a result of performance issues or security incidents (42%) are pinpointed as specific business risks associated with adopting cloudservices.
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Deployment of cloud
Private clouds are particularly popular as anoption in Spain (58%), Germany (57%) and the UK (56%) Community Cloud 13%
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Cloud suppliers
providing data security and privacy (73%) emerges as the most important factor, followed by business continuity and disasterrecovery processes (70%) and the provision of performance assurances / SLAs (67%)
Future business use of cloud services providers
only one in four companies would opt for a single supplier
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Cloud computing
Risk or future?
@lorievelaReport: European CIO Cloud, adrdressing security,
risk and transition