Organizations have fully embraced cloud technology but face hidden costs related to rogue implementations, backup issues, storage inefficiencies, and compliance challenges. A significant percentage of organizations have encountered problems such as discovery requests for cloud data and data in motion issues. Recommendations to reduce these hidden costs include focusing on policies for information and people, educating staff, and utilizing platform-agnostic tools.

2. METHODOLOGY

3. KEYFINDINGS
1. Organizations havefully embracedcloud
2. Success requires avoiding cloud’s “hiddencosts”
• Roguecloudimplementations
• Cloudbackupandrecoveryissues
• Inefficientcloudstorage
• Cloudcomplianceissues
• CloudeDiscoveryissues
• Clouddatainmotionissues(SSLmanagement)

4. ORGANIZATIONSHAVEFULLYEMBRACEDCLOUD

5. ROGUECLOUDISSUES

6. CLOUDBACKUPANDRECOVERYISSUES

7. 7%
30%
INEFFICIENTCLOUDSTORAGE

8. CLOUDCOMPLIANCEISSUES
Thelevelofconcernaboutabilitytoaccomplishthesetasks:
20%

9. CLOUDeDISCOVERYISSUES
29%havehadeDiscoveryrequestsforclouddata

10. CLOUDDATAINMOTIONISSUES
33%
25%

11. RECOMMENDATIONS:MITIGATINGHIDDENCOSTSOFCLOUD
1. Focuspoliciesoninformationandpeople,nottechnologiesorplatforms
2. Educate,monitorandenforcepolicies
3. Embracetoolsthatareplatformagnostic
4. Deduplicatedatainthecloud