Security News > 2022 > January > What are the barriers to moving legacy data to the cloud?

While 95% of tech leaders worldwide say moving their legacy application data to the cloud is a priority, and 80.5% want to do it within the next 12 months, only 35% of tech leaders currently store more than half their legacy data in the cloud.

Given the increased availability of cloud infrastructures over the past decade, these numbers suggest that many organizations continue to have serious concerns about cloud deployments, and are still approaching the issue of cloud migration very cautiously.

"We've long heard that most enterprises would like to manage their legacy data, including data that's potentially sensitive, in the cloud, but that doesn't seem to have translated into full-fledged cloud adoption and data migration," said Archive360 CTO Tibi Popp.

Once you get all legacy data into the cloud, not all problems go away.

Once an organization does get its data into the cloud, not all problems go away.

Concerns around data regulations and compliance, including global privacy regulations: 60%. Concerns around infrastructure and information security: 55%. Unsure of budget requirements for cloud adoption, i.e., total cost of ownership and cloud adoption ROI: 51%..

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