Eighty one percent of IT decision makers have concerns about data security in the cloud, and 48 percent are concerned about their control over data stored in the cloud, according to a survey by Nasuni (News - Alert), an enterprise storage company.
Industries such as business services, education, financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and software and telecommunications have echoed almost the same response with small variations.
Larger organizations will spend less per employee for data storage, despite the fact bigger companies generally experience faster data growth.
The survey was completed by 451 IT decision makers at North American enterprises.
Respondents expect significant data growth to continue. Forty three percent of IT decision makers plan to store data in the cloud over the next 12 months.
IT leaders in the financial services sector expect to see the greatest increase in data, with a cumulative average of 9.7 additional terabytes (TB) over the next 12 months. Education sector expects to see the smallest increase reported by the industries represented – a still sizable 5.5 TB of growth.
“If IT does not seek out enterprise-grade cloud storage solutions that address security and data control concerns, they will likely find that their users adopt much less secure consumer solutions to attain the functionality they desire,” said Chris Glew, product Evangelist at Nasuni, in a statement.
“They clearly understand the promise of cloud storage for cost savings, off-site backup, unlimited scale, simpler IT management, and on-demand provisioning, but they are also rightfully concerned about the security of their data and whether they have control over it at all times,” Glew added.
Recently, Nasuni announced the addition of multi-site access to its Data Continuity Services. Multi-site allows organizations with several locations to work on a single set of shared data. The new capabilities extend Nasuni's already strong file-level snapshots to create a controller architecture that allows multiple storage controllers to have live access to the same volume of snapshots.
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Edited by Jennifer Russell