03/04/2015 | Press release | Archived content
Insight Enterprises, Inc., (Nasdaq:NSIT), a leading worldwide technology provider of hardware, software and service solutions, today released its list of the top five concerns businesses have voiced as they consider moving IT services to the Cloud. The primary hesitancies from businesses include data security, unknown costs, and an ongoing lack of knowledge about how the Cloud can deliver efficiencies.
Insight today published the Top Cloud Tech Concerns for 2015 as part of the company's ongoing work to provide the business community with critical perspectives and resources, including through Insight ON: Cloud. The priority concerns Insight has identified are:
"Businesses are asking the right questions about how the Cloud will work across infrastructure, platforms, and applications, and many are starting to embrace the efficiencies and potential benefits from improved agility, greater employee collaboration, and reduced IT complexity," said Harish Krishnamurthy, senior vice president, Insight Cloud Services. "However, we are still seeing adoption apprehension because of concerns surrounding security and data management. The benefits the Cloud offers are immense, however, and clients are reporting that Cloud options can be faster, safer and a better value than traditional IT. Because of this, we believe that Cloud services will increasingly become the norm for businesses, not the exception."
Insight's Top Cloud Tech Concerns for 2015 echo the findings of Insight research released in October, which showed most businesses are moving toward the cloud for efficiencies, but still lack trust in cloud security. Conducted by Thunderbird School of Global Management, that study interviewed IT leaders representing businesses and organizations with a total of more than 2 million employees and $4 billion in annual revenue. The primary finding was that businesses of all sizes want to improve productivity by moving more functions to the cloud - but the larger the company, the greater the concerns surrounding security.
For detailed information on how businesses can address misconceptions and embrace cloud solutions, visit Insight ON: Cloud, the online resource for news and information on cloud issues and implementations.
For more information on Insight, visit http://www.insight.com/insighton/ or call 800-INSIGHT.
About Insight
Insight Enterprises, Inc. is a leading technology provider of hardware, software and service solutions to business and government clients in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. Insight is focused on helping organizations move technology goals forward in the areas of Office Productivity, Unified Communications and Collaboration, Mobility, Network and Security, Data Center and Virtualization, Data Protection and Cloud. Insight has sold over seven million business and public sector client cloud seats across the globe. With approximately 5,400 teammates worldwide, Insight is ranked No. 483 on the 2014 Fortune 500 and generated sales of $5.3 billion for the year ended December 31, 2014. For more information, please call 1.800.INSIGHT (1.800.467.4448) in the United States or visit www.insight.com. NSIT-M
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