TECHNOLOGY
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation , a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi , Ltd . ( TSE : 6501 ), recently announced results of an Economist Intelligence Unit ( EIU ) study , “ Preparing for nextgeneration cloud : Lessons learned and insights shared ,” which found that 87 per cent of the organizations surveyed indicated their senior management was concerned with security and privacy of corporate data for cloud implementations .
Responses also indicated that outages and failures of public cloud implementations were twice as likely to occur when compared to private cloud . Almost half of the respondents indicated the biggest risk of a failed implementation to be loss of customer data .
Cloud computing continues to transform the entire IT industry . It has created new market opportunities , adjacent product or service opportunities and new lines of business for many organizations .
It has also given IT organizations , providers and integrators more agile , streamlined and cost-effective ways to deliver services to users and customers . While cloud computing has delivered many benefits , cloud adoption also continues to challenge
even the most nimble of companies .
By gathering lessons learned from cloud implementations of 232 global IT executives , the 2015 Economist Intelligence Unit report identifies five best practices that can help organizations make the most of their cloud opportunities . These best practices can help drive greater business agility , improved data access and a more productive , mobilized workforce :
• Ensure cloud providers can meet corporate business and IT requirements .
• Choose the right cloud service for
20 November 2015