{"id":3594,"date":"2012-09-13T10:45:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T10:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/sep\/13\/cloud-enthusiasm-continues-rise-and-are-security-fears-allaying\/"},"modified":"2012-09-13T10:45:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T10:45:35","slug":"cloud-enthusiasm-continues-to-rise-and-are-security-fears-allaying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-enthusiasm-continues-to-rise-and-are-security-fears-allaying\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud enthusiasm continues to rise &#8211; and are security fears allaying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A TechSoup Global survey has revealed that most non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are keen to move to the cloud but need to be better informed about its strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>TechSoup&rsquo;s 2012 Global Cloud Computing Survey interviewed over 10,000 NGOs, non-profits and charities and found that many of these companies were unaware they were already using cloud services.<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar? Well a study from Citrix last month showed that 95% of 1000 Americans surveyed who thought they weren&rsquo;t using the cloud actually were, so more knowledge on what the cloud encompasses can now be attributed to NGOs, as well as consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, TechSoup Global &ndash; itself a non-profit &ndash; noted in its response how many NGOs were utilising the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>The key takeaways from the report are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>90% of those surveyed are already using cloud computing, with 53% hoping to move &ldquo;a significant portion&rdquo; of their portfolio into the &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TechSoup Global survey has revealed that most non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are keen to move to the cloud but need to be better informed about its strengths and weaknesses.<br \/>\nTechSoup&rsquo;s 2012 Global Cloud Computing Survey interviewed over &#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-3594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594","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=3594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}