Survey finds majority of IT executives rate security higher in public cloud than in their own data centers, but security is still the greatest concern with cloud.
That’s the gist of a recent survey of 210 IT executives conducted by SADA Systems. SADA specializes in cloud migrations, so it’s to be expected they would want to demonstrate that cloud security fears are waning. But this is a trend I’ve seen evolving in recent years, with an awareness that things are getting so complex, and the external and internal security threats are getting so savage, that it’s just too much for a corporate IT shop to attempt to do it on its own.
The survey’s key takeaway was that IT managers are more confident in the security and reliability of public cloud than they used to be, and as a result they are running more data and applications on public cloud infrastructure.
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