Apr 4, 2017 | Good, France

Teradata research predicts widespread cloud information storage adoption by 2019, by which era over half of enterprise IT, buyer, and monetary information shall be saved within the cloud

TERADATA UNIVERSE CONFERENCE, NICE, FRANCE   – April 4, 2017: Safety is the primary concern amongst senior enterprise executives on the subject of cloud information adoption, but greater than half of business-critical information is prone to reside there by 2019.

In keeping with the findings of a brand new research launched in the present day, by Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the main information and analytics firm, eight out of ten executives cite safety as a priority when storing information within the cloud, however that has not stopped an enormous rise within the quantity of crucial information being despatched there. Waiting for 2019, executives predict that over half of IT (56%), buyer (53%), and monetary information (51%) will reside within the cloud.

The research highlights that though companies need to spend money on cloud storage and lots of plan to take action over the following two years, there are actual issues about safety of knowledge and information breaches. Various key tendencies have been recognized:

• Safety and lack of management are the highest obstacles holding again storage of crucial information within the cloud: 
  

  • 40% of respondents say normal safety is a threat, whereas 25% of respondents consider cloud information adoption will end in extra safety breaches.
  • 1 / 4 of these surveyed consider information cloud adoption will end in lack of management.
  • 52% say government buy-in to information within the cloud is holding them again and 22% wrestle with the extra staffing wanted to maneuver to the cloud.

• But cloud storage is about to rise sharply within the subsequent two years:
  

  • Though 58% of knowledge from organizations surveyed already sits within the cloud in the present day, utilization of cloud will enhance over the following two years, with three in ten corporations globally predicting a major enhance of knowledge within the cloud by 2019.

• Majority of authorized information is being held again from the cloud:
  

  • Authorized information is being stored on bodily servers for essentially the most half, with simply 27% of companies surveyed anticipating to maneuver their authorized information to the cloud within the subsequent two years.

• Telecoms is making the most important dedication to the cloud, with marcomms making robust strikes inside organizations:  
  

  • 48% of organizations surveyed anticipate a major enhance of their cloud storage use by 2019
  • 48% of promoting and communications departments inside organizations surveyed will enhance information saved within the cloud by 2019. 

• Healthcare will transfer its buyer information to the cloud, while utilities will prioritize IT and R&D information: 
  

  • 59% of respondents highlighted that the healthcare {industry} will transfer buyer information to the cloud within the subsequent two years.
  • Utilities will prioritize shifting IT infrastructure (64%) and R&D/Engineering information (52%).

Marc Clark, ‎Director of Cloud Technique and Deployment at Teradata mentioned: “Our message to organizations all over the world is that the cloud is definitely some of the safe technique of digital storage out there. Whereas our research finds widespread issues, the very fact is that cloud storage is rising quickly, stays massively cost-effective, and that there are methods to handle it securely.

“Cloud computing safety processes must be designed to handle the safety controls that the cloud supplier will incorporate, as a way to keep the information safety, privateness and compliance with obligatory laws, in addition to offering a enterprise continuity and information backup plan.

“By figuring out the boundaries inside the enterprise that hinder additional adoption, in addition to the place cloud storage is creating optimistic alternatives, we purpose to offer reassurance that cloud storage is a secure and value efficient solution to retailer firm data.”

Notes to editors:

The Research was carried out in January 2017. The analysis was carried out throughout 9 nations: Australia, France, Germany, Japan, UK, US, India, Spain and Russia, with 100 respondents from every.

Organizations have been focused from a variety of vertical industries together with Telecommunications, Automotive, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Finance, Oil/Gasoline/Electrical/Nuclear, Photo voltaic Energy, Public Sector, Media/Communications, Retail, Leisure and Transportation. The next capabilities of the group have been represented: engineering, finance, HR, IT, Logistics/Provide chain, Advertising/Communications, Operations, Product improvement/R&D and Gross sales.

As organizations across the globe embrace digital transformation in an IoT period, the first aim of the analysis was to determine and description the important thing tendencies in 2017 that encompass cloud storage adoption. Respondents have been all senior executives with resolution making capabilities, performing a variety of capabilities inside organizations, starting from IT, Engineering, Finance, HR and Logistics to Advertising/Comms, Operations, Product Growth, R&D and Gross sales.

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