{"id":18794,"date":"2015-11-20T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/nov\/20\/why-small-business-adoption-cloud-storage-still-has-some-way-go\/"},"modified":"2015-11-20T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T00:22:09","slug":"why-small-business-adoption-of-cloud-storage-still-has-some-way-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/why-small-business-adoption-of-cloud-storage-still-has-some-way-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Why small business adoption of cloud storage still has some way to go"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Research from B2B research firm Clutch has revealed just over half (52%) of small businesses are using a cloud storage solution, with Dropbox the most popular and Apple the highest rated service.<\/p>\n

According to the report, which polled 438 small business across the US and 744 full time employees, Dropbox was used by 53% of respondents, ahead of Google Drive (45%), Apple iCloud (34%) and Microsoft OneDrive (30%). Box, in comparison, was used by only 6% of respondents, indicating a preference towards consumer services. Apple’s cloud storage was given the highest Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 62, ahead of Dropbox (54), Google Drive (50) and OneDrive (45).<\/p>\n

Plenty of moves have been made in the storage space in recent weeks. Microsoft announced earlier in November<\/a> that it was dropping its unlimited OneDrive plan, previously available to Office 365 subscribers, after the company admitted a small percentage of users were putting 75 terabytes of data into their accounts – more than 14,000 times the average. Dropbox continues to push itself towards the enterprise market<\/a>, announcing enhancements to its Dropbox for Business product to include new account management tools and greater security at a recent event.<\/p>\n

Yet these survey results show businesses are not as savvy as one might expect with storage. “Cloud storage has been around for a while, but there are still many people who do not know the full scope of what can be done with it,” said David Amaya, consultant at Cardinal Solutions.<\/p>\n

“Security and compliance concerns hold many back from adopting the cloud – as small businesses become more aware of what is possible and how the cloud addresses these concerns, the number using the cloud will continue to increase,” he added.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, research from all-flash storage provider SolidFire has examined the state of storage in next-generation IT deployments and argues storage automation is ‘predominantly’ addressing immediate problems IT teams face – but more work can be done. VMware has the largest contingent of organisations using storage automation, while OpenStack and, increasingly, containerised solutions such as Docker, are ‘poised to be a disruptive force’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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