1. Cloud computing
Business and
collaboration
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2. Who uses cloud computing?
22%
Professional
Services
and
21% Education
and Public Sector
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3. Cloud adoption
60% businesses
think it could be
their most
significant IT
operating
method in 2014
but Security is
still an issue
(63%)
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4. Security and Risk
➢The top five cloud applications deployed
company-wide are website hosting (24%),
emailhosting (23%), database hosting (22%),
servers (22%) and storage (20%)
➢Security is deemed an ongoing issue that goes
beyond the cloud (74%)
➢but is certainly a priority in evaluating and
managing IT delivered via cloud (80%)
➢43% say it will not prevent them adopting more
cloud services
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5. Cloud supply
➢As in 2010 the key requirement of a cloud
supplier is that they provide data security and
privacy (73%) – having strong business continuity
and disaster recovery processes has grown in
importance (70%), whilst providing performance
SLAs (67%) remains the third biggest
consideration
➢Most prefer to use a mix of cloud suppliers (71%)
rather than relying on a single service provider
(25%)
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6. Conclusions
✔Security factors prevail
✔Risk evaluation of cloud
✔Data privacy and contract issues
✔Quality assurance and transition management
✔Infrastructure and service provider business
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7. Key enablers of the process
➢ease of transition
(58%),
➢quality assurance
(55%)
➢while regulations
on the
security and
control of
customer data
(54%)
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8. SaaS
Software as a
Service
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9. Paas
Platform as a Service
Iaas
Infrastructure as a Service
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10. Security sticking points
Security is a partiuclar
issue for companies in
UK and Germany
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11. Attitudes
74% of CIOs think IT security
is a concern whether IT
systems
and applications are delivered
via the cloud or not. Against
this backdrop, the fact that
80% see security issues as a
priority when evaluating and
managing IT via cloud
services may in part be simply
due diligence in coming to
terms with a new approach
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12. Cloud and Risk
For many companies,
risk is synonymous with
security: compromises
in security (45%) and
brand damage as a
result of performance
issues or security
incidents (42%) are
pinpointed as specific
business risks
associated with
adopting cloud
services.
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13. Deployment of
cloud
Private clouds are
particularly popular as an
option in Spain (58%),
Germany (57%) and the
UK (56%)
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14. Cloud suppliers
providing data security
and privacy (73%)
emerges as the most
important factor,
followed by business
continuity and disaster
recovery processes
(70%) and the
provision of
performance
assurances / SLAs
(67%)

15. Future business use of cloud
services providers
only one in four
companies would
opt for a single
supplier
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16. Cloud computing
Risk or future?
Report: European CIO Cloud, addressing security,
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risk and transition