Intelligent Data Centres Issue 16 | Page 57

EDITOR’S QUESTION D ADOPTION SSFUL ACROSS its-all solutions in the cloud, so it is hat per-application ing more widespread Ley, Senior EMEA tworks. nique and serves a h as finance, sales, ill have end-users an a hundred to into has a different risk n from a breach being to costing the business th of damage.” EA organisations pliance as the biggest aging applications nments, which was an any other region plexities stemming Data Protection rns included applying olicies across all safeguarding against %) and migrating clouds and data curity postures, d lower confidence to withstand an application-layer attack in the public cloud (only 15% were ‘very confident’ they could do so), versus in an on-premises data centre (30%) or via colocation deployments (20%). The cloud security challenge is further exacerbated by a growing industry skill gap: as many as 66% of EMEA organisations believe they lack necessary security talent going forward. America is closely behind with 65% having claimed the same. The problem was most pronounced in the APJC region where it was an issue for 76%. A TOTAL OF 27% OF EMEA RESPONDENTS ALSO CLAIMED THEY WILL HAVE MORE THAN HALF OF THEIR APPLICATIONS IN THE CLOUD BY THE END OF 2020. Issue 16 29