More than half of the respondents in a recent global cloud storage survey are considering the use of cloud storage services now or in the future, according to CommVault.
CommVault polled its customers worldwide to assess interest in cloud storage services, as well as to identify top concerns and considerations.
Some 52% of the 535 respondents regard cloud services as a way of reducing IT costs and addressing growing data volumes. Privacy and security were identified as the overarching concerns with regards to moving into the cloud, adds the company.
“From our latest survey, we know that many of our customers are considering cloud storage to keep pace with rapid data growth and reduce internal IT costs,” states David West, vice-president of marketing and business development at CommVault.
“Still, they're worried about security, complexity and reliability, especially since protecting their mission-critical data remains of paramount importance,” he adds.
Recovery vs. reliability
According to the survey, 33% of respondents ranked offsite disaster recovery as the top benefit of moving to cloud storage. Other potential advantages companies cited include opportunities to leverage flexible pricing models, lower overall costs due to decreased hardware expenses, decreased data centre storage footprints, and increased storage capacities.
CommVault points out that despite industry concerns about the cost of managing IT and on-premise storage, only 17% of respondents ranked the cost of deploying cloud services as their first concern.
Reliability was found to be a greater concern than cost by 20% of respondents, while scalability ranked fourth overall, adds the company.
Overall, the survey findings suggest these customers are already preparing for the move to cloud storage, notes CommVault. Some 43% of respondents indicated they expect to store between 6TB and 75 TB of data in the cloud, while nearly 60% already manage in-house that same amount of primary data on a regular basis.
Once data is moved to the cloud, nearly a quarter of the respondents (24%) plan to retain it for more than six years, with 8% of respondents expecting to keep data for more than 10 years, concludes CommVault.
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