{"id":4452,"date":"2014-02-18T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2014-01-21T09:32:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T17:32:01","slug":"cloud-computing-cloud-wary-versus-the-cloud-wise-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-cloud-wary-versus-the-cloud-wise-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Cloud-Wary Versus the Cloud-Wise Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent survey by Internap<\/a>, a vendor specializing in high-performance cloud infrastructure, categorized and compared the opinions of two distinct groups: the cloud-wary<\/em>, or those organizations that haven’t used cloud computing, and the cloud-wise<\/em>, organizations that are using cloud computing.<\/p>\n

The survey found that 40 percent of cloud-wary businesses expressed concern over cloud security, while only 15 percent of the cloud-wise businesses had similar concerns. \u00a0Their conclusion from the survey results was that once businesses gain first-hand experience with the technology their concerns diminish. \u00a0Although the fact that cloud-wise businesses are already using the cloud implies that those companies already had already come to terms at least to some extent with cloud security.<\/p>\n

The top cloud challenges among the cloud-wise group include the following:<\/p>\n