{"id":24526,"date":"2016-08-12T10:20:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T10:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2016\/aug\/12\/research-argues-greater-confidence-public-cloud-security-it-pros\/"},"modified":"2016-08-12T10:20:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T10:20:45","slug":"research-argues-greater-confidence-in-public-cloud-security-from-it-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/research-argues-greater-confidence-in-public-cloud-security-from-it-pros\/","title":{"rendered":"Research argues greater confidence in public cloud security from IT pros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/img\/news\/iStock_enterprisedatacentre2356276_5GB2vOI.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>(c)iStock.com\/scanrail<\/em><\/p>\n<p>IT professionals are becoming more confident in the security of the public cloud compared to corporate data centres, according to the latest study from IT consulting firm SADA Systems.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, which quizzed more than 200 IT managers around their use of public cloud services, found that 84% of respondents were using some form of public cloud infrastructure today.<\/p>\n<p>49% of respondents said they used Google Cloud Platform, compared with 48% for Microsoft and 42% for AWS &ndash; although it&rsquo;s worth noting that SADA&rsquo;s work comes primarily through Google and Microsoft reselling.<\/p>\n<p>Half (50%) of those polled said they are likely to increase their public cloud usage by at least 25% over the next three years, with a further 25% saying they would increase their usage by more than half. 45% of firms polled said it took them three to six months to migrate to public cloud, with 23% saying it took three months.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of issues with cloud adoption, more than half (51%) of respondents said concerns around data security prevented them from quicker adoption, while long-term viability of cloud (40%) and escalating costs (33%) were also highly cited.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All signs point to public cloud adoption growing and enterprise IT becoming more comfortable with the prospect of running their most sensitive data on public cloud infrastructure,&rdquo; said Tony Safoian, SADA president and CEO in a statement. &ldquo;Security and reliability will always be primary concerns &ndash; as they should &ndash; and companies should lean on expert consultants and integrators to guide them in addressing these issues.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The convenience of public cloud, coupled with easy access to proven resources for managing these environments, make the option of moving to public cloud too compelling to ignore,&rdquo; Safoian added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c)iStock.com\/scanrail<br \/>\nIT professionals are becoming more confident in the security of the public cloud compared to corporate data centres, according to the latest study from IT consulting firm SADA Systems.<br \/>\nThe poll, which quizzed more than 200 IT man&#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-24526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24526","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=24526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24527,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24526\/revisions\/24527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}