A recent press release reports, “Druva, the leader in cloud data protection and management, today announced the results of its 2018 State of Virtualization in the Cloud survey to understand how enterprises working in virtual environments are approaching cloud migration. The results show cloud adoption is growing for virtualized workloads, with 90 percent of respondents running, or planning to run, virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud in 2018. The survey also highlights significant risk associated with this journey, as organizations discover that on-premises approaches to data management are outdated and no longer adequate for the cloud era. The annual survey polled IT and virtualization professionals across companies of all sizes to identify adoption and user data trends across cloud virtualized environments.”

The release goes on, “Key findings from the survey include: 41% of organizations are currently running VMs in the cloud, up from 31% in 2017; 90% of respondents are running, or have plans to run, VMs in the cloud in 2018; 59% of these organizations are planning to use AWS for these workloads; 54% of respondents have no visibility into how and if data management policies are being applied and enforced; 55% do not have a plan to centralize protection of their data across multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments, resulting in data silos. The result is a critical gap in visibility into data in the cloud, which can increase risk to data infractions and compliance–such as not purging data in time, per retention and compliance regulations.”

Read more at Globe Newswire.

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