Security, management and compliance challenges are impacting cloud benefits

Management and compliance challenges are impacting the benefits businesses are receiving from using the cloud as their infrastructures become more complex, according to research from WinMagic. 39% reported their infrastructure was more complex since using the cloud, and 53% spend more time on management tasks than they have done previously.

Falling short on securing the cloud

98% of the 1,029 IT decision maker respondents reported using the cloud, with an average 50% of their infrastructure up in the sky. Over one third (33%) of respondents reported that data is only partially encrypted in the cloud, and 39% admitted to not having unbroken security audit trails across virtual machines in the cloud, leaving them exposed.

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