Symantec’s Avoiding the Hidden Costs of Cloud 2013 Survey found more than 90 percent of all organizations are at least discussing cloud, up from 75 percent a year ago. Other key survey findings showed enterprises and SMBs are experiencing escalating costs tied to rogue cloud use, complex backup and recovery, and inefficient cloud storage.

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