14 DAY TRIAL // Cloud services continue to face perception problems at a global level, as most companies have security concerns when it comes to these types of products.
According to a global survey from the Internap Network Services Corporation, organizations that aren’t currently trusting cloud services with their data have strong concerns regarding their security.
The survey also reveals that there’s a significant difference in public cloud infrastructure concerns between the companies that are currently using such services and those that have no immediate plans to make the switch from traditional data storage services.
For the poll, nearly 250 global Internet infrastructure decision makers were interviewed. These are part of a range of industries, including software and Internet, hosting and IT infrastructure, media and entertainment, gaming, healthcare, education and financial services.
The findings reveal that 40 percent of those who don’t use cloud services cite security as a concern, something that only 15 percent of companies that already use these types of products are concerned about.
In fact, there are a number of concerns that top security for cloud-wise organizations, including service performance (30%), cost at scale (28%), reliability (22%) and compliance (16%).
“The survey data clearly indicates that big data applications – such as those that enable personalisation and targeting through customer insights, social analytics and location mapping – are pushing the performance limits of virtual public cloud environments at price-points that don’t make business sense,” said Gopala Tumuluri, vice president of hosted services at Internap.
It should be interesting to see whether the concern about data security that cloud services can provide will increase in the coming months, considering the revelations of the past seven months regarding the various freedoms that the United States National Security Agency has taken.
It’s been mentioned countless times already that the cloud business will be the first to suffer, especially companies based in the United States, but there’s been no hard proof of this thus far.