Monday, February 15, 2016

Businesses use an average of more than a thousand cloud services – without knowing it – IDG.se

Business and authorities is much more dependent on the cloud than they themselves believe, even today, says Matias Cuba, Nordic sales manager at Skyhigh Networks, working with safety and risk analysis in the cloud.

– It is very common with cloud services, even if the companies have not taken a strategic decision to use it. When we have done our research has shown that it used an average of over 1,100 cloud services for businesses, while most themselves believe that it is about 50-100.

1100 services let very much?

 - Yes, but there are local variations of different services, there are a variety of file-sharing services, social media, lots of HR tools and development tools, apps on your phone and third party applications that connect into the cloud, tracker application that accompanies you as you surf, and so on.

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Especially encounter Matias Cuba on this the authorities – who generally are the ones that are the slowest to step into the cloud.

 
 

Matias Cuba
Matias Cuba, Skyhigh Networks.



 - We often face the reaction from the public sector that “we do not work with the cloud, we may not have the information in the cloud.” The objection is, “Well, you certainly have a lot of clouds, you have 10,000 employees in the organization.” To ignore the problems are very dangerous. It is better to say that you do not know, so you can work on it.

As businesses and authorities are already in the cloud. But there are far fewer who made an active choice to use it. It is changing, and Matias Cuba believe that 2016 will be the year when the companies in the joint begins to develop a cloud strategy.

It nevertheless prevents companies to step up in the cloud, security and law. And the new EU legislation on personal data – which among other things have increased the fines for errors committed – has added to the uncertainty further.

 Is it justified to doubt the safety?

– Yes is there. There have been high-profile intrusions especially globally but also in Sweden. At the same time think most companies to the security of cloud providers are generally higher than the man himself can deliver.

But despite fears drives companies themselves in order to develop in the direction the cloud. The benefits are major, says Matias Cuba.

– There’s strong drivers. The companies save money. There is a streamlining of operational commitments. Additionally, you can quickly get to market with the help of a cloud solution.

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another factor which operates on cloud development is the strong trend that staff are increasingly picking with to their own services into the business – and puts pressure on especially the iT department to adapt the environment for them.

– users take in tool box, Google Apps and Dropbox. In the same way the marketing department wants to have his tools, for example to help make campaigns. Personnel departments are also active in this development.

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 - Above all, we see the risks in the services where they relinquish their intellectual property rights. Where the supplier owns the information. It is a major concern, for example, pharmaceutical companies, research data would end up in such a place.

– Since there the legal risk associated with the location where data is stored. Some data must be in Sweden or Europe. The alternative is, for example, personal information is encrypted.

Matias Cuba believes precisely the legal and business risks are the greatest. Then there is also the technical risks – that suppliers suffer from intrusion or distribute malware.

Another factor that prevents the cloud evolution is that it is difficult for the traditional software giants to invest fully in the cloud – because they still want to preserve their old business models and sell licenses. The type of provider cloud development really challenging, however, outsourcing suppliers, thinks Matias Cuba.

– This is a fairly clear trend. Corporate rolls back its operations and takes care of the parts of the operation itself. This, I think is very common. Choosing cloud solutions for standardized services and that they then retain sensitive data, such as research, in-house.
 




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