According to results, one of the biggest benefits seen from those who have already moved their data to the cloud is cost savings (59 per cent); yet 49 per cent of respondents who are considering a move cite cost as the number one barrier. This paradox is indicative of a larger misconception about the capabilities of cloud technology. Despite rising confidence in durability and availability of company data in AWS, concerns remain around storage and usage costs.
"Although cloud migration has increased significantly in recent years, we still see a disconnect between perceptions of the cloud and its reality,” said Dave Packer, vice president of product and alliance marketing at Druva. “The misconception persists that the cloud is too expensive for storing data, and IT professionals fear rising costs as data grows and duplicates across the enterprise. However, organisations that have already leaned into transitioning to the cloud have realised that by fully embracing vendors providing truly cloud-native technology, both costs and scale can be optimised – and they have greater security and control over their data, regardless of where it resides.”
Key findings of the Druva 2017 AWS Cloud Data Protection Survey include:
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Heightened adoption of cloud-based data protection. A strong trend is emerging with the majority of respondents (54 per cent) indicating that their organisations are leveraging the cloud for data protection.
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IT professionals bothered by egress costs. The majority of respondents have a negative stance on egress costs, with 43 per cent calling them a “necessary evil” and 29 per cent deeming them “annoying, unnecessary additional charges."
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Strong concern for compounding costs as data grows and expands across multiple sites. Results showed that 59 per cent of respondents were concerned about the growing cost attributed to duplicate and growing data. Additionally, about 62 per cent of respondents expressed concern about the compounding data protection costs that they may incur as a result of having multiple sites.
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Cost savings as the primary expectation for moving to the cloud. Conversely, about 59 per cent of respondents listed cost savings as the most anticipated benefit of moving to AWS, with simplicity and improved security as the second and third primary drivers.
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Confidence in ability of the cloud to recover data. Seventy-two per cent of respondents indicated a very strong level of cloud adoption interest based on their higher confidence levels in the ability to recover data from the cloud.
