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Executives and IT Professionals Reveal Preference for the Cloud over On-Premises Data Centers for Data Security
8 Jun, 2018

5th Annual Cloud Adoption Survey by Evolve IP® Reveals New Findings, Including IT Managers’ Confidence in the Cloud at Highest Recorded Level
WAYNE, Pa.—
June 7, 2018
—Executives and IT professionals revealed that they overwhelmingly believe the Cloud is the safest location for their data during environmental incidents, hardware failure and malicious attacks in a
technology survey released today by Evolve IP
®. The survey also revealed that IT managers’ belief in the Cloud is at an all-time high. This year’s survey of more than 1,500 professionals, which provides current Cloud adoption trends and future Cloud deployment insights, also revealed that nearly six in 10 organizations would prefer having a single Cloud services provider handling their varied hosted solutions. Over the last five years, confidence in the Cloud has soared while concerns about security have slowly diminished. Data points from the
survey noting this shift include:
- Seven in 10 (72.5%) IT managers consider themselves Cloud believers, up nearly 20 points from 2013 when just 53% noted the same.
- The Cloud is considered safer for data than on-premises data centers during a variety of incidents. Specifically:
- For environmental incidents, nine in 10 (91%) prefer the Cloud
- For hardware failure, over eight in 10 (83.5%) prefer the Cloud
- For malicious attacks, nearly seven in 10 (68.5%) prefer the Cloud
- In all cases, private Cloud was preferred over both public Cloud and on-premises
- Four in 10 (46.5%) cite Cloud security as a concern; the lowest number reported since the survey’s inception, and down nine points from 2013.
- More than nine in 10 (91.5%) indicated that they currently deploy services in the Cloud
- Three in 10 respondents plan to evaluate or deploy a Cloud phone system. Three-quarters of them will do so in the next two years
- 40 percent of firms expect to evaluate or deploy Office 365. 70 percent indicated this will happen in the next year.
- Seven in 10 respondents noted that they faced compliance requirements. PCI (38.5%), HIPAA (37%) and SOX (19%) were the top compliances noted.
- 46% of businesses indicated that their budget for Cloud services increased in 2018 while just seven percent saw a decrease.