Biggest Objections to Cloud Storage Adoption

TwinStrata, Inc. announced the results of their 2012 Cloud Storage Adoption Survey.

Conducted during the second half of 2012, the survey focuses on the attitudes and experiences of a cloud-friendly sample group as determined by their attendance at one of two cloud-focused conferences. The survey results provide an early window into how the cloud computing market in general, and the cloud storage market in particular, is maturing.

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Among the key findings:

• 80% of current cloud storage users claim that they can recovery their data in less than 24 hours, with nearly a quarter estimating instantaneous recovery. In comparison, nearly one in six respondents who do not use cloud storage estimated that it would take more than a week to recovery their data in the event of a disaster.
• While both software as a service and infrastructure as a service have greater degrees of current implementations, cloud storage represents the greatest number of planned implementations. Nearly 90% of respondents either currently use or plan to use cloud storage.
• Scalability and the need to easily manage growing storage needs was highlighted as the top value cloud storage could provide, with nearly two-thirds of respondents indicating its value. Meanwhile, 68% of current cloud storage users cited offsite data protection for DR as a key benefit, but only 26% of users with no cloud storage plans said the same.
• More than two-thirds of respondents with plans to implement cloud storage either agreed or strongly agreed with the statement "It seems like we are always running out of storage." By contrast, current cloud storage users scored a full 20 points lower on the same question.

Report excerpt: "Organizations require immediate solutions to problems such as rapidly escalating data growth and DR requirements. The ability to implement cloud storage incrementally at first and to grow it over time, provides a unique opportunity for organizations to solve their immediate problems while testing the viability a long-term storage strategy."

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