{"id":19589,"date":"2016-01-06T00:20:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T00:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2016\/jan\/06\/how-security-will-accelerate-not-inhibit-cloud-adoption-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T00:20:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T00:20:15","slug":"how-security-will-accelerate-not-inhibit-cloud-adoption-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/how-security-will-accelerate-not-inhibit-cloud-adoption-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"How security will accelerate, not inhibit, cloud adoption in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(c)iStock.com\/alphaspirit<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A study released by Rackspace and conducted by Vanson Bourne argues improving resilience and security remain in the top three motivations for businesses moving to the cloud in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, which polled 500 UK IT and business decision makers, found reducing IT costs (61% of respondents) as the most popular reason for migration, ahead of resilience and disaster recovery (50%) and security (38%). While these reasons have long since been considered when companies move data to the cloud, according to Rackspace chief security officer Brian Kelly 2016 may represent a tipping point.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Cloud has long been associated with a loss of control over information, but more and more businesses are now realising this is a misconception,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Organisations are increasingly seeing the cloud as a means to keeping their systems and information safe and in the year ahead security will be an accelerator, not an inhibitor, of cloud adoption.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Part of this change is that security hurdles are becoming easier to clear. Only one in five (20%) respondents said they encountered problems meeting security and privacy requirements, while consulting expert advice reduced the chances of issues (17% compared to 26%). Yet overall security concerns pervade; in particular, businesses are worried about meeting security requirements (48%), losing control of data to a third party provider (39%), and cost of migration (39%) above others.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, more than half of those polled (58%) said they moved business critical data over to the cloud first, either alone or at the same time as non-critical data. Meanwhile, companies using a third party supplier had fewer security concerns than those who went it alone.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Many businesses do not have the expertise or budgets to combat a growing number of sophisticated cyber-attacks in house, but using the cloud &ndash; with the support of a team which is able to dedicate a large number of resources to security &ndash; will help to keep data safe at the fraction of the cost,&rdquo; added Kelly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c)iStock.com\/alphaspirit<br \/>\nA study released by Rackspace and conducted by Vanson Bourne argues improving resilience and security remain in the top three motivations for businesses moving to the cloud in 2016.<br \/>\nThe survey, which polled 500 UK IT and busin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19590,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19589\/revisions\/19590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}