The FINANCIAL -- Identifying
the right cloud computing options for securing data is vital.
Computacenter, Europe’s leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, offers end-to-end cloud computing solutions based on specific circumstances, needs, and objectives.
According to research, 84% of employees are accessing and sharing company data using consumer cloud solutions like Dropbox and SkyDrive.
With this in mind, Computacenter can help maintain IT security and improve IT processes to deliver better ways of working on the move and collaborating which match the attributes of commercial consumer cloud services.
As apart of research conducted by Computacenter amongst 150 IT decision makers, the findings highlight the risks, and shows how important the issue of the consumer cloud really is.
The research was led by Cloud Practice Leader, Paul Casey, who said, "It’s imperative that businesses address this problem now. It’s clear that everyone knows the risks of consumer cloud products, but until the correct solutions are put in place... Employees will continue to use them whatever the consequences"
As WebWire announced, 56% of the IT decision makers’ surveyed say that they’re worried that files and data could be accessed by the wrong people, or that the usage of cloud services could lead to compliance breaches.
Nick Wilson, UK&I Managing Director & VP Enterprise Group, Hewitt Packard, states, “The market holds a huge amount of possibility for cloud and opens up a lot of opportunity.”
It is vital to understand the associated challenges with consumer cloud such as corporate compliance and security.
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