Cloud workloads at risk from compliance, security and management failings

Security, management and compliance challenges are hitting the benefits businesses are getting from using the cloud as their infrastructures become more complex, according to new research The study from security and compliance specialist WinMagic reveals that 39 percent of respondents report their infrastructure is more complex since using the cloud, and 53 percent spend more time on management tasks than they have done previously. Of the 1,029 IT decision makers surveyed, 98 percent report using the cloud, with an average 50 percent of their infrastructure on cloud systems. Around a third (33 percent) of respondents report that their data is… [Continue Reading]