TRENDING forecasted but in 91 % of these cases it’ s because of fee-related reasons.
For more than half of the European organisations( 55 %) egress or other data access fees associated with moving their data out of a public cloud environment have delayed IT or business initiatives.
“ We believe the higher rates of‘ cloud-first’ organisations across Europe are a positive indication of the regions continued embrace of cloud IT services and cloud storage and the growing preference among regional organisations to adopt cloud services – despite the complexity of data sovereignty, residency and locality requirements,” said Dunn.
“ Organisations are being unfairly penalised for using and moving their data by anti-competitive practices like high egress fees and complex pricing models. This is consequently stifling innovation, as data is the lifeblood for unlocking full growth potential. This also shows in our data with organisations being prompted to rethink
Data is the lifeblood for unlocking full growth potential.
When choosing a cloud storage provider, UK respondents’ top consideration is performance and scalability( 41 %) followed by sustainability( 32 %) and ease of use( 30 %).
For EMEA respondents across the board, native data protection, security and compliance was also brought up as the second highest priority( 34 %), preceded by performance and scalability( 35 %) and followed by sustainability( 31 %).
their approach, leading many to strike a more balanced mix between cloud and on-premise solutions,” said Kevin Dunn, VP & GM EMEA, Wasabi.
The UK leads regional peers in‘ cloudfirst’ approach to IT services adoption
This year, UK organisations are leading the global race for cloud adoption, in equal place with the Netherlands – with 41 % of businesses following a cloud-first strategy compared to the global average of 29 % and European average of 34 %.
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