{"id":2970,"date":"2012-08-01T15:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/aug\/01\/consumer-cloud-storage-ever-present-enterprise\/"},"modified":"2012-08-01T15:58:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:58:24","slug":"consumer-cloud-storage-ever-present-in-the-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/consumer-cloud-storage-ever-present-in-the-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer cloud storage ever-present in the enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popularity of storage products such as Dropbox is infiltrating into enterprise as users go against company policy to utilise cloud-based storage.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent report from social business network Spiceworks, 33% of organisations said that their staff was using personal storage products.<\/p>\n<p>The report, entitled &lsquo;The Cloud Barometer&rsquo;, aims to give insight into SMEs and their usage of cloud-based file sharing software. Spiceworks interviewed over 300 users across North America and the Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) region.<\/p>\n<p>The IT industry appears to have a mixed view on this acceleration, with 31% of companies surveyed agreeing that employees could use any provider they wished, yet 32% discouraged the behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Spiceworks noted that despite the accessibility, collaboration and convenience associated with cloud-based storage software, employers were still wary of the risks associated with file-sharing; evidently the type of data being shared and the usual bedbug, security.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding specifics &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popularity of storage products such as Dropbox is infiltrating into enterprise as users go against company policy to utilise cloud-based storage.<br \/>\nAccording to a recent report from social business network Spiceworks, 33% of organisations said that t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}