Many corporate leaders are hesitant to move to the cloud because of security concerns. netlogx’s Clayton Calvert explains that while data breaches are continuing apace, cloud security is entirely possible and manageable.
Cloud adoption has continued to grow in the last decade, and recent reports by the analyst firm Gartner show it will continue to grow by almost 20 percent next year. Gartner’s Vice President of Research, Sid Nag, says that the firm doesn’t know of any vendor or service provider whose revenue hasn’t benefited from the adoption of cloud-first strategies in the organization. By 2022, the analyst firm estimates cloud service growth will triple.
The benefits for employee satisfaction as a result of using cloud services and online collaboration tools cannot be ignored. Study after study shows incredible ROI in productivity, engagement and efficiency from using tools that enable employees to work from nearly any device with an internet connection. However, many corporate leaders are hesitant to make the jump because of security concerns, especially leaders in the health care, finance and government sectors. While data breaches seem to be more commonplace than ever, the truth is that cloud security is entirely possible and manageable with a couple of important steps to increase corporate…