Cloud adoption in India has been on a steady increase with 62% of companies admitting to having been on cloud for less than two years, according to Instasafe Technologies, a leading Security-as-a-Service vendor and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).

The Bangalore based SaaS service provider in a survey called “State of Cloud Adoption & Security in India”, said that SaaS is the most common form of cloud adoption, with 88.3% respondents having adopted it; followed by 55% using cloud for IaaS offerings.

It also said that lack of industry standards and perceived risk of data loss and security breach are the key barriers for cloud adoption, according to Indian CIOs and that the Indian organizations are extremely concerned with security.

Organisations are most worried about their data on the cloud. Data breach (79.2%) and data loss (72.7%) are the core concerns of organizations from a cloud security perspective,the report added.

Sandip Kumar Panda, CEO – InstaSafe said, “While cloud adoption in India is on the rise, security concerns still dominate a lot of discussions about moving to the cloud. The objective of conducting this survey, in conjunction with CSA, was to understand the Indian CIO’s mindset, the current adoption status, unearth gaps in widespread adoption and work with the industry to help assuage fear of adopting the cloud.”

The survey done in collaboration with Cloud Security Alliance with an aim to provide insights on cloud adoption in Asia Pacific region.

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