cloud computing stats - security and recovery

CLOUD COMPUTING

STATSSECURITY AND RECOVERY

SECURITY

Here are some statistics all about cloud security.

Countless studies have shown that cloud security is the major factor standing in the way of cloud adoption. While in some cases companies are right to be wary, like most things, not all cloud providers are created equal. In fact, the security a company experiences with the cloud solely depends on the provider chosen.

94%

of businesses saw an improvement in security after switching to the cloud

91%said cloud providers are making it easier to meet government compliance requirements

of IT professionals ranksecurity as the top reason for

migrating applications to

1/2the cloud

50%More than

say their organization currently transfers sensitive or confidential data to the cloud

56%trust the ability of cloud providers to protect the sensitive and confidential data entrusted to them

RECOVERY

Here are some statistics all about cloud disaster recovery.

More than ever before, businesses everywhere are increasingly dependent on their IT technology for production, operation and communication. This means in the event of a disaster, whether it’s a hurricane or human-error power outage, it is extremely critical for a business to have an effective, quick recovery time to restore computer data and functioning infrastructure.

Luckily, the growing industry of cloud computing technolo-gy comes to the rescue with Disaster Recovery as a Service, which backs up a company’s data and infrastructure securely in remote, redundant data centers.

43%never reopen

of businesses that experience

a disaster

out of businesswithin one year

93%of businesses that

experience a data disaster without a DR plan are

20% 9%of cloud storage users are able to recover from a site disaster in 4 hours or less

of non-cloud storage

users can say the same

93%

of US SMBs back up some portion of their data to the cloud