Report Finds Cloud Adoption Linked to Organizational Resilience
📅 - Organizations that are leading cloud adoption appear to outperform competitors in the category of organizational resilience to technology risks, The Economist's Intelligence Unit (EIU) and Sungard AS report in their latest research. The report, titled Cloud complexity: The need for resilience shows that nearly three-quarters (72%) of organization executives see their organizations' resilience to tech risks as a growing priority looking into the next three years.
The executives also believe that moving workloads over to the cloud is going to be a key part of a proactive strategy for achieving resilience against technological threats.
The survey looked at more than 300 executives from a variety of industries in the UK, France, and the US.
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