Among the 312 respondents, 51 percent cited security and data privacy concerns when answering the question, "What do you see as your greatest barrier to moving to cloud?" The next highest barrier to the adoption of cloud computing, cited by 21 percent of respondents, was the integration of cloud-based applications with existing systems.
Concerns about the ability to bring systems back in-house and regulatory/compliance issues were cited by 18 percent and 10 percent of respondents, respectively.
Answering the question, "What is your greatest concern about moving workloads to the cloud?" 72 percent of respondents cited security concerns. Other concerns ranked lower, for example integrations issues were the next highest at 34 percent.
"These poll results confirm what we continue to hear from our clients as well as industry analysts," said Sam Gross, vice president, Global IT Outsourcing Solutions, Unisys.
"Until they are convinced that there is 'industrial-strength' security in the cloud, CIOs will remain reluctant to move more than development and test systems into that environment. This is why we have made comprehensive security and data protection integral parts of the Unisys cloud computing strategy and solutions." |
