Less than half of Malaysians are comfortable with moving to public cloud. According to a survey by Barracuda Networks, 44% of Malaysians surveyed felt confident their organisations move to public cloud was secure.
The survey showed that 66% Malaysians surveyed use additional security to secure their public cloud access; 68% of Malaysian surveyed said their organisations have been targeted by cyber security attack.
The survey was commissioned by Barracuda and carried out by Vanson Bourne. The survey interviewed 450 people in 6 countries in Asia Pacific (APAC) including Malaysia. Respondents came from different sectors and industries including manufacturing, technology, financial services and more.
James Forbes-May, Vice President of Asia Pacific, Barracuda shares, “58% of the Malaysians surveyed, said that they have more trust on public cloud today as compared to five years ago. Yet only 36.10% of Malaysian respondents said their organisations were using public cloud.”
Malaysian respondents also choose Google as their preferred public cloud provider with 70% of respondents’ organisations using the service. Amazon Web Services was next at 48%; Microsoft Azure with 40%; IBM Bluemix at 34%. Results also noted that organisations used more than one cloud provider.
Public cloud accounted for 22.71% of IT budget spending for Malaysian organisations.
“68 percent of Malaysian surveyed said their organisations have been targeted by cyber security attacks in the past. These attacks hinder business operations and worst business loss. 1/3 of the APAC respondents (37 percent) said customers or employees lost faith in the organisations security measures. While 30 percent reported a temporary closure of business while 22 percent of those surveyed entirely lost their customers,” shares Forbes-May.
Despite the security concerns, 65% of the Malaysian organisations store customer bank details in public cloud, while 48% admitted to storing personal employee data on public cloud. The survey concludes that more and more businesses are moving to cloud, as companies see benefits in moving to cloud. However, there isn’t one single provider that is able to provide a holistic service.
“All respondents reported that their organisation has benefitted from moving to the public cloud – improved security of applications (55 %) and greater scalability (55 %) topped the list of benefits. On average, respondents report that their organisation has seen a positive ROI of approximately 29.26%,” ends Forbes-May.
