Outages and failures of public cloud twice as likely when compared to private cloud
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - May 27, 2015 – Hitachi
Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.
(TSE: 6501), today announced results of an Economist Intelligence Unit
(EIU) study, “Preparing for next-generation cloud: Lessons learned and
insights shared,” which found that 87% of the organizations surveyed
indicated their senior management were 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’s 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.
Study Highlights
- 67% of respondents have suffered some type of incident or issue related to their cloud computing implementation.
- Of the respondents experiencing an incident, 9% indicated it as being “high damage”, while 55% indicated the damage as being “limited” and 34% “medium.”
- 46% of respondents consider “loss of customer data” as the biggest risk to their organization of a failed cloud implementation, followed by loss of revenue (40%) and breach of customer privacy (36%).
- 26% of survey respondents who experienced a cloud incident cite a "prolonged failure to integrate" with the public cloud as a problem. A majority (36%) cited a technical error on the part of their own organization as being a primary cause of the incident.
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 greater control over security and data protection.
- Use cloud architectures that enable connections from cloud services to existing IT infrastructure.
- Consider factors beyond costs, such as cloud’s potential to improve business operations and boost innovation and employee efficiency.
- Define business requirements for IT to offer cloud services and act as cloud brokers.
The Silver Lining: Opportunities Abound for Companies to Secure and Protect Their Data in the Cloud
In
alignment with these best practices, the Hitachi Content Platform
(HCP), rated #1 most secure object storage solution according to Gartner
in their Critical Capabilities report, delivers distinct advantages
that can accelerate cloud adoption for organizations. This family of
products lets you build your own secure, scalable and easy-to-manage
cloud. It includes HCP, an object-based cloud storage platform; HCP
Anywhere, an enterprise-class file sync and share solution; and Hitachi
Data Ingestor (HDI), a cloud storage gateway. These three solutions are
tightly integrated, offering maximum data mobility so that organizations
can avoid being trapped by traditional technology silos. Taking data
mobility a step further, HCP provides a hybrid cloud architecture that
enables organizations to move data to and between their choice of public
clouds for the datasets and workloads they deem appropriate to move
offsite. The rich data management and hybrid capabilities of HCP provide
IT with the tools to become internal brokers for their organizations’
cloud services, while maintaining full control and visibility to ensure
that proper data security, sovereignty and compliance are upheld. This
means IT organizations can provide secure data access for their users
anywhere, anytime, on any device.
The
industry-leading HCP portfolio for content mobility, empowers
workforces and maintains visibility and control with an agile hybrid
cloud. It is cloud neutral with no lock-in and manages data globally for
secure flexibility to stay ahead of cloud and mobility trends. Poised
for outstanding efficiency gains and new business innovations, the HCP
portfolio promotes faster time to value, and adaptability to market
changes. Organizations can more easily meet compliancy demands with
automated data retention policies and proactive responses to storage
capacity management. Finding a balanced approach between flexible
workplace mobility and corporate control and visibility of the data is
now possible.
Supporting Quote:
“One
of the reasons we chose Hitachi Content Platform was for its integrated
architecture that is ready for cloud. It is extremely flexible and
scalable, eliminates the need to run daily backup procedures, provides
synchronization and file sharing, and ensures a high level of security.
All key requirements for us.” - Giuseppe Alibrandi, CTO di Banca Popolare di Milano.
