More than half of UK businesses are concerned about the safety of their data in the Cloud – but that doesn’t seem to be holding back adoption of the approach, especially in the public sector.
That’s the conclusion of a major survey by consultancy KPMG, which claims 23% of CIOs contacted are already using the Cloud - and a further 53% planning to do so within the next 12 months.
In the public sector, it adds, 25% of senior ICT leaders have already pulled together a Cloud feasibility study, 10% less than the private.
But in terms of having an agreed-on business case to go ahead, the trends reverse, with 30% of the public sector ready to go versus 20% in the private sector.
And in terms of deployment, 30% say they will have something in place “within six months”.
Steve Salmon, principal advisor within KPMG’s CIO Advisory practice, states:
Salmon suggests that:
